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Tongass National Forest - Land and Resource Management Plan
The Land and Resource Management Plan ("Forest Plan") guides all natural resource management activities and establishes management direction for the Tongass National Forest. It describes resource management practices, levels of resource production and management, and the availability and suitability of lands for different kinds of resource management.
Tongass Forest Plan (amended 2016)
Administrative Changes to the 2016 Forest Plan
- April 2022 Administrative Change to assign LUDs to parcels acquired through the Alaska Mental Health Trust Land Exchange Act of 2017
- March 2019 Administrative Change correcting spelling of Ketchikan Misty Fjords
Moderate Vulnerability Karst Forest Plan Amendment August 2020
December 2016 Forest Plan Amendment: Young Growth, Renewable Energy, and Transportation Systems Corridors Direction
The Tongass National Forest (Tongass) amended the 2008 Tongass Land and Resource Management Plan through a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process. The process included public involvement, analysis in an environmental impact statement (EIS) and selection of the alternative to implement in the Record of Decision (ROD) signed on December 9, 2016.
The Final Environmental Impact Statement was released in June 2016. After the objection process, the Final EIS was updated to respond to direction from the Regional Forester. These updates were released in an errata document with the ROD in December 2016. Errata are entered by chapter and page number from the FEIS. FEIS map errata are also included.
These documents are supported by maps. Some maps were updated based on direction from the Regional Forester. The updated maps were released with the ROD in December 2016.
- Dear Reader letter
- December 2016 ROD
- Final EIS Errata
- Plan Amendment Final EIS Summary Booklet
- ROD_LUD Map
- Alt1_LUD Map
- Alternatives 2, 3, 4, 5 LUD Map
- Timber Sale Program Adaptive Management Strategy
Reviewing Officer Response to Eligible Objections
Final EIS and Forest Plan Maps
- Dear Participant letter from the Forest Supervisor
- Plan Amendment Final EIS Summary Booklet
- Plan Amendment Final EIS Vol. II Appendices
- Plan Amendment Final EIS Vol. I Analysis
- Alt 1 Suitable Areas
- Alt 2 Suitable Areas
- Alt 3 Suitable Areas
- Alt 4 Suitable Areas
- Alt 5 Suitable Areas
- Timber Sale Program Adaptive Management Strategy
Past Management Plan Analyses for Reference
The following Roadless Planning PDFs are not 508 Accessible at this time. If you need to have them made Accessible, please contact Alexander Dunn by email at alexander.dunn@usda.gov.
- 1997 Tongass Land Management Plan FEIS and ROD
- 1991 EA TLMP Amendments TTRA
- 86_F072186_tlmp_1985-86_amendment
- 1979 TLMP EIS ROD
- 1979 TLMP FEIS Part 2
- 1979 TLMP FEIS Part 1
- 2008 Tongass Land and Resource Management Plan FEIS and ROD
- 2008 ROD Map
- 2003 Roadless Area Evaluation for Wilderness Recommendations
- Record of Decision
- LUD Map
- VOLUME I: Final SEIS, Appendix A, B, D, E
- VOLUME II & III
- VOLUME III Appendix C Part 2
- VOLUME IV: Appendix F, Comments and Responses