Alerts

This order is in place for public safety and prohibits going into any abandoned underground opening, including but not limited to, mine adits, drifts, tunnels, caves and shafts that are the result of past mining activities within the forest boundaries as identified on the attached map.

The purpose of this order is to protect public safety due to washed-out sections of road creating an unsafe narrow road surface, not passable for standard highway vehicle traffic on NFS road 4402.

This order temporarily closes Forest Service Road 1575 above Beauty Bay on the Coeur d'Alene River Ranger Districtt due to active logging operations with constant heavy truck and equipment traffic.

The purpose of this order is to close the 22-acre Rose Lake Informal Recreation Site to protect people from the potentially adverse effects caused by the presence of anomalously high levels of lead in the soils, sand, and dust. 

Food storage requirements on portions of the Bonners Ferry, Priest Lake and Sandpoint Ranger Districts from April 1 to December 1 every year. 

The order requires appropriate food storage practices to reduce the potential for human-wildlife conflicts. 

The purpose of this order is to ensure the safety of contract personnel and the public
during heavy equipment operations associated with stream and meadow restoration
activities at Hudlow Meadow, to prevent resource damage to the restoration area from persons and/or

The order closes the Catspur Creek unauthorized garnet dig area and a 1.2-mile-long access road (FSR-361A) to protect public health and safety, as well as resource/property protection, including a rare area of geologic interest. 

This order closes the 5-acre Solo Creek quartz site to protect the public from adverse effects caused by years of unauthorized quartz crystal mining until the site hazards can be managed and the site rehabilitated.