Olympic National Forest planning documents guide all forest management actions. Plans are focused at a broad scale: regional, forest-wide, or landscape (watershed) level.
Schedule of Proposed Actions (SOPA) and National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) projects at Olympic National Forest documentation is available. *Sign up for project updates.
“Land management has been traditionally based on the precept that future environmental conditions will mirror past conditions. Climate change is turning this notion on its head. We can no longer assume that precipitation will fall in the same amounts and during the same time of year as in the past." - Case Studies - Managing for a Changing Climate on the Olympic National Forest.
“Land management has been traditionally based on the precept that future environmental conditions will mirror past conditions. Climate change is turning this notion on its head. We can no longer assume that precipitation will fall in the same amounts and during the same time of year as in the past." - Case Studies - Managing for a Changing Climate on the Olympic National Forest.
