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Projects
After providing your email address, you can subscribe to the Forest’s project mailing lists and any categories of interest. By selecting a category, the Forest will automatically sign you up for all current AND future project mailing lists that share the same interest. To join the mailing list and receive updates for the Lolo National Forest Land Management Plan Revision, visit the Revision Page
Status of Forest Projects
These are analyses we conduct for specific activities. Also included in this list are past projects, their objectives, and their results. The projects displayed on this page are only the major forest projects. For more information about a specific project or other project not listed, contact the appropriate Lolo NF Office.
Schedule of Proposed Actions (SOPA)
Forest Projects
For current and recent projects, scroll down below the map.
Lolo National Forest Current and Recent Projects
Projects on the Forest Managed by Other Units
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Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex Outfitter and Guide Permit Reauthorization
Reissuance of outfitter and guide permits within the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex.
Lolo National Forest All Units
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Lolo Creek Restoration at Earl Tennant Project
Proposed in-stream modifications of Lolo Creek to improve aquatic habitat, including addition of large woody debris and reconnection of historic channels.
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Lolo National Forest Land Management Plan Revision
Land management plan revision for the Lolo National Forest under the 2012 Planning Rule.
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Munson Weeksville Ecosystem Management Burning Project
Proposed prescribed burning north of Highway 200 between Weeksville Creek and Thompson River in Sanders County Montana on the Lolo National Forest. The project would reduce fuel accumulations and improve wildlife habitat.
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Rock Creek Ecosystem Maintenance Burning Project
Proposed prescribed burning within the Rock Creek drainage in Granite County Montana on the Lolo National Forest. The project would improve big game habitat, forage, and reduce fuels to moderate wildfire hazard and potential spread to communities.
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Sawmill/Wallman Fuels Project
A proposal to reduce hazardous fuels on 310 acres within the Rattlesnake National Recreation Area. Methods would include hand thinning, hand-piling, pile burning, and underburning.
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Thompson Gardens Fuel Break
The project proposes to reduce wildfire risk to communities, infrastructure, and ecosystems in the path of potential future wildfires and improve forest conditions that have departed from historic norms.
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Upper O'Brien Creek Restoration Project
Restoration of approximately 1.8 miles of O'Brien Creek to restore stream function and health.
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Westside Ninemile Wildfire Resiliency Project
The project proposes to reduce the risk to wildfire by promoting healthy forest stands that are resilient to insects, disease, and wildfires as well as improve conditions for wildfire suppression through implementation of fuel treatments.
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Wilson Cutoff Siegel Ecosystem Managment Burning Project
Proposed prescribed burning within Siegel, Wallace, Dragonfly, Sheep, Wilson, and Robertson Creeks in Sanders County Montana on the Lolo National Forest. The project would reduce fuel accumulations and improve wildlife habitat.
Missoula Ranger District
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Lolo Creek Large Wood Debris
This project would utilize large hazard trees cut after the 2013 Lolo Complex Fire to construct large woody debris structures on Lolo Creek to enhance aquatic habitat and improve stream and floodplain health.
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Sapphire Crest Trail
Trail construction and reconstruction to connect existing trail segments, creating a 100-mile long non-motorized trail across the Lolo, Bitterroot, and Beaverhead National Forests on the Sapphire Divide.
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Terms and Conditions for City of Missoula McKinley Lake Dam Decommissioning and Restoration Project
The City of Missoula holds an easement on McKinley Lake dam and plans to decommission it. This project's proposal is to develop terms and conditions to minimize impacts of dam decommissioning activities on NFS lands, resources and wilderness values.
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Wildfire Adapted Missoula
WAM is a risk-based strategic fuels management project. It proposes mechanized and non-mechanized fuel and vegetation treatments to reduce wildfire hazard and associated risk in strategic locations.
Ninemile Ranger District
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Familias Doradas gold exploration project
Includes excavating up to twenty trenches, and two sediment retention ponds with an excavator. Material from the trenches would be processed through a recirculating wash plant recovering any gold.
Plains/Thompson Falls Ranger District
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Priscilla Lookout to Driveway Peak
Relocation and restoration of historic Priscilla Peak lookout. Proposal includes moving the structure from Priscilla Peak to Driveway Peak, restoring it, and opening it as a cabin rental.
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Wilkes Cherry
The Forest Service is developing a project to address multiple resource needs such as forest health, fuels reduction, recreation, wildlife, aquatic habitat, and watershed condition in an approximately 68,000-acre area south of Thompson Falls.
Seeley Lake Ranger District
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North Seeley Wildland Urban Interface - Highway 83 Project
The project proposes vegetation and road management activities to reduce hazardous fuels, restore fire resistant vegetative conditions, maintain or restore fish and wildlife habitat, and provide for public health and safety.
Superior Ranger District
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Redd Bull
Integrated restoration project that includes vegetation, road, and recreation management activities to address multiple resource objectives. Project also includes forest plan amendment to change the management area allocation on approx. 198 acres.
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Superior North
Project includes vegetation, road, and recreation management activities to restore resilient vegetative conditions, reduce fuels, enhance recreation opportunities, and support communities. It also contains a proposal to amend the Forest Plan.
Project Archive
Some of our older projects can be accessed in our Project Archive.
