Planning
Forest Plan Revision
Using years of your input, the Humboldt-Toiyabe planning team has completed the draft revised forest plan and associated DEIS. The comment period on these documents is now closed.
Work on Forest Plan revision has been suspended as resources and personnel are devoted to travel management, environmental analysis of grazing, fire and fuels management, and implementation of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest will make a public announcement when Forest Plan revision is re-initiated.
Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest
Forest Plan Revision Team
1200 Franklin Way
Sparks, NV 89431
What is a forest plan?
Forest plans are legally required documents that establish broad, long-range, general management direction to maintain or achieve desired conditions. Together, desired conditions and objectives describe what actions Forest Service managers intend to implement across the Humboldt-Toiyabe landscape while still providing sustainable usage by individuals and communities. As forest and community needs change, forest plans should be amended or revised to respond to these changes and incorporate the latest scientific knowledge and understanding of land management.
What is the forest plan revision process?
The process of revising a forest plan includes the following steps: assessment, preliminary identification of the need to change the plan based on the assessment, development of a proposed plan, consideration of the environmental effects of the proposal (environmental impact statement), providing an opportunity to comment on the proposed plan and environmental effects analysis, providing an opportunity to object before the proposal is approved, and, finally, approval of the plan revision.
Appeals and Litigation
Forest Service managers make many resource management decisions, which may be subject to appeal (request to a higher authority for administrative review of a decision). View appeal responses for the Intermountain Region issued after October 1, 2006. You will view these on the National Appeals web site, which will open in a new browser window.
Pre-Decisional Objections
Proposed Forest Service Decisions regarding hazardous fuel reduction projects are subject to a "pre-decisional" review process. In these cases, the public may submit comments on the project for consideration prior to the final decision being signed. View objection responses for the Intermountain Region. You will view these on the National Objections web site, which will open in a new browser window.
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Read all plan and analysis documents
You are an important part of the revision process. Your input matters! Forest plans should reflect the diverse interests and desires of the people who use the forest—even when they don’t agree.