Planning
Modoc National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan
- Cover, Preface and Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 Purpose and Need
- Chapter 2 Public Issues and Management Concerns
- Chapter 3 Summary of the Analysis of the Management Situation
- Chapter 4 Management Direction
- Chapter 5 Monitoring and Evaluation Requirements
- Appendices A through U
- Record of Decision
- Final EIS
- FEIS Appendices
The Modoc LMRP (Forest Plan) is scheduled for revision in the next few years. Current efforts are meant to support the multiple planning area science syntheses needed before the plan can be revised. This page provides more information about the combined Lassen and Modoc national forest plan revision process.
Devil's Garden Plateau Wild Horse Territory Management Plan
This project will update the Wild Horse Territory Management Plan approved in 1980 and the Modoc NF Land and Resource Management Plan in 1991. This plan will guide the management of wild horses in this area for the next 15 - 20 years.
Sierra Nevada Forest Plan Amendment
In January 2004, the Forest Service amended the Sierra Nevada Forest Plan (Framework) to improve protection of old forests, wildlife habitats, watersheds and communities in the Sierra Nevada Mountains and Modoc Plateau. Learn more at the Pacific Southwest Region Sierra Nevada planning page. A science synthesis is currently underway to support forest plan revisions for national forest managing lands within this management area.
Noxious Weed Treatment Project EIS
The Modoc National Forest proposes to control, contain, or eradicate noxious weeds on approximately 7,600 acres. These plants have the potential to displace or alternative plant communities and cause long-lasting economic and ecological problems within and outside the National Forests.
Click here to view the EIS for Noxious Weed Treatment on the Modoc National Forest. For more information on current actions visit our projects listings or contact a forest representative.
Sage Steppe Ecosystem Restoration Strategy Final EIS
The Modoc National Forest, Bureau of Land Management and partner agencies including Modoc County, California, cooperated in developing a management strategy and environmental impact statement. The Sage Steppe Ecosystem Restoration Strategy focuses on the restoration of sage steppe ecosystems that have come to be dominated by juniper, as the density of Western juniper has increased over the landscape. The management strategy will broadly identify appropriate restoration methodologies by ecological conditions; provide guidelines for design and implementation of effective restoration treatments for restoration areas to be analyzed site specifically over a 50-year horizon.
Features
Modernization of Forest Plans in the Northwest
The Pacific Northwest and Pacific Southwest regions of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Forest Service collaboratively developed and released a Bioregional Assessment of Northwest Forests, which provides a snapshot in time of the current ecological, social and economic conditions on national forest system lands within the Northwest Forest Plan amendment area as well as two adjacent units. The NWFP amended existing forest plans on 19 national forest units across Washington, Oregon and California. The NWFP and those underlying forest plans require key updates to address contemporary management needs. For more information about the process to update forest plans, visit the Modernization of Forest Plans in the Northwest Home Page.