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Flathead National Forest
The Forest Service follows NEPA regulations issued by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Under this rule, Forest Service officials determine which proposed projects are shared for public input.
The agency no longer issues a schedule of proposed actions (SOPA) report. Below is the current list of proposed projects available for review—your opportunity to learn more, share feedback, and stay engaged in decisions that shape the future of our public lands.
The Mountain Guides Montana: 200 user days for avalanche education. Rooted Heart LLC:50 user days to provided guided snowshoe trips. Northwest Montana Adventures: 200 user days to provide guided day-use snowmobile tours.
Harvest and fuels treatments on ~400 acres of NFS lands to maintain reduced fuels, limit threats to life and property in the wildland urban interface, and improve diversity and resilience to fire, insect and disease disturbances.
The project includes treatments on about 200 acres of NFS lands within the Whitefish Mountain Resort permit boundary. Treatments are designed to reduce forest density/fuel loading and improve stand diversity/resilience to reduce wildfire risk and protect resort infrastructure and private property.
Proposal includes commercial timber harvesting, noncommercial treatments, and prescribed burning to improve diversity and resilience to disturbances such as drought, insects and disease, and wildfires. Project includes road construction/maintenance.
The purpose of this project is to improve the diversity and resilience of terrestrial ecosystems and vegetation, reduce fire behavior near communities within the wildland-urban interface, and produce forest products to contribute to the economy.
Preparation of a river management plan for the Flathead River Wild and Scenic River system. Project documents are available on Pinyon Public here: https://usfs-public.app.box.com/v/PinyonPublic/folder/158226776312
The main objective of this project is to reduce fuels in areas where wildfires on NFS lands threaten communities and assets and provide protection to communities and essential infrastructure from wildfire threats.
The main objective of this project is to reduce fuels in areas where wildfires on NFS lands threaten communities and assets and provide protection to communities and essential infrastructure from wildfire threats.
Improvements to update campground infrastructure, improve visitor recreation experience, increase accessibility, and reduce resource damage. Project documents are available on Pinyon Public here: https://usfs-public.app.box.com/v/PinyonPublic/folder/366820681795
The purpose of the Mid-Swan Project is to restore and maintain terrestrial and aquatic biodiversity in light of climate change, and reduce the risk from wildfire in the WUI.
This project would facilitate the renewal of five existing priority outfitter and guide special use permits on the non-wilderness portions of the North and Middle Forks of the Three Forks of the Flathead Wild and Scenic River.
The Comprehensive Plan will develop administrative and management objectives and practices and desired conditions for the Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail on public lands in Forest Service Regions 1 and Regions 6.
Vegetation management project including commercial and non-commercial treatments to be more resilient to natural disturbances. Link to project documents: https://usfs-public.box.com/s/uv146cqt0oonx7zgji7n3v9usrys3rnx. Link to comment form: https://cara.fs2c.usda.gov/Public/CommentInput?project=26790
The Rad Reid Blowdown Salvage project proposes salvage treatments on approximately 512 acres of stands damaged during a wind event that occurred in December of 2025.
Proposal includes commercial timber harvest, noncommercial treatments, and prescribed burning to reduce fuels, improve diversity, improve resilience to disturbances, and contribute to the local economy. Proposes system road development and maintenance, along with temporary road construction.
Proposal includes commercial timber harvesting, noncommercial treatments, and prescribed burning to reimprove diversity and resilience to disturbances such as drought, insects and disease, and wildfires. Project includes road construction/maintenance
Reconstruct a portion of the existing wastewater treatment system that serves a loop of the Holland Lake Campground and associated RV dump station, and the Holland Lake Lodge.
