Welcome to the
Kootenai National Forest
 The Kootenai National Forest is located in the Northwest corner of Montana and the Northeast corner of Idaho on the Canadian border. Providing abundant recreation and a wealth of natural resources, the Kootenai is a perfect place to relax and enjoy your National Forests!
Stage II Fire Restrictions 2021
Stage II Fire Restrictions will be in effect on the Kootenai National Forest effective Saturday, July 17th at 12:01 am. Please view the full Stage II Order for more information.
Montana Fire Restriction Information
The Northern Rockies Coordination Group (NRCG) and collaborating federal, state, and local agencies are launching www.MTFireInfo.org to keep Montanans and our visitors updated on current fire restriction information. The website hosts a geospatial map that depicts the specific fire restrictions order or proclamation for each federal, state, tribal, and local jurisdiction in Montana.
Fire Related Closure Orders
View all Forest closure orders (including non-fire) on the Alerts & Notices webpage (scroll down to the Alerts section).
Quick Links to Your Outdoor Adventures
The Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA) gave the USDA Forest Service new opportunities to deliver benefits to the American public through major investments in recreation infrastructure. GAOA establishes a new fund to address the deferred maintenance backlog for 5 federal agencies over the next 5 years.
Authorized deferred maintenance projects on the Kootenai National Forest are summarized here.
A complete list of the Northern Region’s 2021 authorized projects, and 2022 projects being reviewed for the President’s 2022 budget can be found at https://www.fs.usda.gov/detailfull/r1/home/?cid=fseprd796790&width=full
 Since 1983, the Kootenai NF archaeologists have researched early logging practices and relocated the sites where they occurred. Information was amassed from oral history interviews, record donations, local and regional museum collections, universities, and state archives so we could understand and chart the migration of Midwestern logging companies from Minnesota to Washington in the early twentieth century, and their influence on the methods used in Lincoln County. View our online Story Journal see the product of this effort.
View our History of Logging in Lincoln County, Montana Story Journal
NOTE: Scroll using your mouse or navigate the Story Journal using the narrow navigation menu on the left side of the screen while viewing the journal.
 FSTopo is the Forest Service series of large scale topographic maps. FSTopo maps are 7.5 minute, 1:24,000-scale over the conterminous United States, and 15 minute X 20-22.5 minute, 1:63,360-scale over Alaska.
These maps are available in several formats including:
 Fire plays a natural role in the Kootenai National Forest and NW Montana ecosystem. It promotes vegetative and wildlife diversity and eliminates heavy fuel accumulations that can lead to catastrophic wildfire if not removed. Natural fires occur about every 5-25 years and they tend to be low intensity, ground fires that remove woody shrubs. You can now use our interactive map viewer to explore the wildland fire history for the Northern Region of the Forest Service, including the Kootenai National Forest.
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