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Projects
After providing your email address, you can subscribe to the Forest’s project mailing lists and any categories of interest. By selecting a category, the Forest will automatically sign you up for all current AND future project mailing lists that share the same interest. To join the mailing list and receive updates for the Lolo National Forest Land Management Plan Revision, visit the Revision Page
Status of Forest Projects
These are analyses we conduct for specific activities. Also included in this list are past projects, their objectives, and their results. The projects displayed on this page are only the major forest projects. For more information about a specific project or other project not listed, contact the appropriate Lolo NF Office.
Schedule of Proposed Actions (SOPA)
Forest Projects
For current and recent projects, scroll down below the map.
Lolo National Forest Current and Recent Projects
Developing Proposal
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T-150 Reconstruction
The T-150 administrative facility is used by the Lolo NF for a variety of purposes but has been condemned. The proposed reconstruction aims to provide a usable facility while maintaining the historic characteristics that define the current building.
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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Eddy Creek Road Access
Request by outfitter and guide to use a closed National Forest System road to access their private inholding for commercial purposes located approximately 11 miles northwest of Plains and approximately 5 miles up Eddy Creek Road.
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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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Lolo Prescribed Fire Project
The project proposes to increase the application of prescribed fire across fire adapted landscapes; reducing the risk of uncharacteristically severe and large wildfires, promoting forest resiliency, and lessen impacts to local communities.
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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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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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West Fork Fish Creek Trail Bridge Replacement
This project proposes to repair and replace the current West Fork Fish Creek Trail Bridge that is deteriorating and will soon become unsafe to cross. This would help improve public safety, water quality, and habitat for aquatic species.
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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.
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.
