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Welcome to the Lolo National Forest
Welcome to the Lolo National Forest
The Lolo National Forest is a destination for locals and visitors to go play. There is so much to explore with opportunities such as hiking, OHV riding, camping, cabin and lookout tower rentals, winter sports, and two visitor centers.
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Land Management Plan Revision
The Lolo National Forest is in the process of Land Management Plan Revision. A Land Management Plan, commonly known as a Forest Plan, is the comprehensive overarching document that guides the management of a National Forest for approximately 15 years. Learn more here!
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Wildfire Adapted Missoula (WAM)
WAM is a wildfire risk-based strategic fuels management project designed to address objectives outlined in the Missoula County Community Wildfire Protection Plan developed through stakeholder and public engagement. WAM includes projects on the Lolo National Forest totaling 177,229 acres.
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Bear Country Safety
The Lolo National Forest is home to both black and grizzly bears. Learn more about recreating safely in bear country and how to properly store food and other attractants.
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Work With Us
There's so much you can do in a Forest Service career! Our extraordinary diversity of employment occupations and locations makes it easy to find a position to suit your talents.
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Resource Advisory Committees
Are you interested in participating in local land management decisions through the Secure Rural Schools Resource Advisory Committees? Committees fund projects that contribute to road, trail and infrastructure, restoration, wildlife and fish habitat improvement work on your national forest.
Lolo National Forest Current and Recent Projects
Developing Proposal
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Lolo Creek Restoration at Earl Tennant Project
Proposed in-stream modifications of Lolo Creek to improve aquatic habitat, including addition of large woody debris and reconnection of historic channels.
Under Analysis
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Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex Outfitter and Guide Permit Reauthorization
Reissuance of outfitter and guide permits within the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex.
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Lolo National Forest Land Management Plan Revision
Land management plan revision for the Lolo National Forest under the 2012 Planning Rule.
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Munson Weeksville Ecosystem Management Burning Project
Proposed prescribed burning north of Highway 200 between Weeksville Creek and Thompson River in Sanders County Montana on the Lolo National Forest. The project would reduce fuel accumulations and improve wildlife habitat.
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North Seeley Wildland Urban Interface - Highway 83 Project
The project proposes vegetation and road management activities to reduce hazardous fuels, restore fire resistant vegetative conditions, maintain or restore fish and wildlife habitat, and provide for public health and safety.
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Sawmill/Wallman Fuels Project
A proposal to reduce hazardous fuels on 305 acres within the Rattlesnake National Recreation Area. Methods would include hand thinning, hand-piling, pile burning, and underburning.
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Tyler's Kitchen Fuels Reduction and Forest Health Project
Proposed Fuels and Forest Health project on approximately 33,440 acres located south east of the confluence of Rock Creek and the Clark Fork River in Granite County and Missoula County on the Missoula Ranger District of the Lolo National Forest.
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Westside Ninemile Wildfire Resiliency Project
The project proposes to reduce the risk to wildfire by promoting healthy forest stands that are resilient to insects, disease, and wildfires as well as improve conditions for wildfire suppression through implementation of fuel treatments.
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Wildfire Adapted Missoula
WAM is a risk-based strategic fuels management project. It proposes mechanized and non-mechanized fuel and vegetation treatments to reduce wildfire hazard and associated risk in strategic locations.
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Wilkes Cherry
The Forest Service is developing a project to address multiple resource needs such as forest health, fuels reduction, recreation, wildlife, aquatic habitat, and watershed condition in an approximately 68,000-acre area south of Thompson Falls.
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Wilson Cutoff Siegel Ecosystem Managment Burning Project
Proposed prescribed burning within Siegel, Wallace, Dragonfly, Sheep, Wilson, and Robertson Creeks in Sanders County Montana on the Lolo National Forest. The project would reduce fuel accumulations and improve wildlife habitat.
Analysis Completed
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Redd Bull
Integrated restoration project that includes vegetation, road, and recreation management activities to address multiple resource objectives. Project also includes forest plan amendment to change the management area allocation on approx. 198 acres.
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Superior North
Project includes vegetation, road, and recreation management activities to restore resilient vegetative conditions, reduce fuels, enhance recreation opportunities, and support communities. It also contains a proposal to amend the Forest Plan.
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Terms and Conditions for City of Missoula McKinley Lake Dam Decommissioning and Restoration Project
The City of Missoula holds an easement on McKinley Lake Dam and plans to decommission it. The Lolo NF proposal is to develop terms and conditions to minimize impacts of dam decommissioning activities on NFS lands, resources and wilderness values.
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Upper O'Brien Creek Restoration Project
Restoration of approximately 1.8 miles of O'Brien Creek to restore stream function and health.
On Hold
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Sapphire Crest Trail
Trail construction and reconstruction to connect existing trail segments, creating a 100-mile long non-motorized trail across the Lolo, Bitterroot, and Beaverhead National Forests on the Sapphire Divide.
Cancelled
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Familias Doradas gold exploration project
Includes excavating up to twenty trenches, and two sediment retention ponds with an excavator. Material from the trenches would be processed through a recirculating wash plant recovering any gold.
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Lolo Creek Large Wood Debris
This project would utilize large hazard trees cut after the 2013 Lolo Complex Fire to construct large woody debris structures on Lolo Creek to enhance aquatic habitat and improve stream and floodplain health.
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Priscilla Lookout to Driveway Peak
Relocation and restoration of historic Priscilla Peak lookout. Proposal includes moving the structure from Priscilla Peak to Driveway Peak, restoring it, and opening it as a cabin rental.
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Thompson Gardens Fuel Break
The project proposes to reduce wildfire risk to communities, infrastructure, and ecosystems in the path of potential future wildfires and improve forest conditions that have departed from historic norms.
Project Archive
Some of our older projects can be accessed in our Project Archive.
