TIMBER AND SILVICULTURE PROGRAM FOR 2025
Contact Information: Amy Baumer SM.FS.scnfinfo@usda.gov
Active timber and silviculture/reforestation programs benefit both local communities and healthy forests. They contribute forest products, improve forest resilience, and restore wildfire impacted landscapes.
The Salmon-Challis National Forest has 19 ongoing timber sales covering 3,575 acres producing 46,000 CCF (4 CCF equals roughly 3 cords of wood). In 2025, near the community of Salmon, Idaho, the Phelan Better Timber Sale, the Bob Stormster Timber Sale, and the Moose Deck Salvage Sale will be operational. Four (4) to six (6) log trucks a day travel the Williams Creek Road #021 and are typically active prior to 7:00 am. Three (3) to eight (8) log trucks travel the Stormy Peak Road #023 per day and are typically active until the early afternoon. A minimum of three (3) additional trucks will be using the Stormy Peak Road #023 when hauling on the Moose Decks Salvage sale begins. Out on Highway 21, past the community of Stanley, Idaho, the Thatcher, Copper Salvage, and Flat Creek sales will be ongoing. Up the Yankee Fork of the Salmon River drainage the Deadwood Salvage, Horse Hill, and Pocket Salvage sales will be active. Near the community of Challis, Idaho; the Mosquito and Annie Rooney timber sales will be active. Finally, the Iron Bull Timber Sale in the Little Lost River drainage will be active. Please be advised of the timber sale activity and log truck traffic in these areas. Please exercise extreme caution when traveling on roads used by logging trucks.
The Forest is preparing several timber sale offerings for this year with a mix of small and large contracts that are across the Forest.
The Salmon-Challis National Forest has many acres affected by wildfire and is working to increase reforestation in the coming years including planting in the Moose and Mustang fire areas.
The Forest has hand thinning of trees planned on several thousand acres, this work is in various phases of preparation and implementation. The preparation, contracts, and administration of this work will be done with Forest Service, Mule Deer Foundation, and Idaho Department of Lands personnel.
For more information about the Salmon-Challis timber and silviculture programs contact Amanda Rollwage at amanda.rollwage@usda.gov.
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