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Please check here for the latest information on planned, completed, and underway projects on the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest.

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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.

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Wallowa-Whitman National Forest Projects

This project includes a suite of activities to restore forest and watershed resiliency, including: fuels treatments and prescribed burning; and upland and watershed restoration.

The purpose of this project is to reduce hazardous fuels between the Baker City Watershed and nearby private land.

A radio communication tower and associated radio shelter need to be replaced due to their poor conditions.

Bull Run Meadows Restoration Project geotechnical analysis of current subsurface substrates in mine waste piles. Excavation of a trench 8-10 feet deep, 3 feet wide and 12 feet long. Total disturbance will be less than 1/10th acre.

The North Phillips Lake Trail #1608 parallels State Hwy 7 at Deer Creek Bridge. Currently there is no hiker/bike bridge there. The area is near a state right-of-way. dev of a new foot/bike bridge over Deer Creek will eliminate a hazard

This project proposes to reduce the amount of potential future surface woody fuels by salvaging fire killed trees from the 2022 Double Creek Fire in burned areas adjacent to the FS 4240-000 road corridor.

A Defensible Fuel Profile Zone (DFPZ) project to reduce the fuel loading in strategic areas that would help in the aid in fire suppression on FS along private boundaries, ridgelines and or road corridors.

A Defensible Fuel Profile Zone (DFPZ) project to reduce the fuel loading in strategic areas that would help in the aid in fire suppression on FS along private boundaries, ridgelines and or road corridors.

The purpose of this project is to create strategic fuel breaks that would assist in the management of future natural and prescribed fires on National Forest lands that are in close proximity to the Eagle Cap Wilderness and private lands and adjacent to communities and infrastructure.

Hazardous fuel reduction, watershed restoration, and research

The purpose of the Project is to conduct restoration management activities to improve forest resiliency and sustainability and improve hydrologic functioning, thereby moving the landscape toward the goals, objectives, and desired future condition(s).

Renewal of an existing Special Use Permit

Renewal of communication tower lease.

Permit renewal for PacifiCorp's existing Mt. Emily site.

Analyze proposed mining plans of operations within the Powder River watersheds.

Improve forest resilience, reduce hazardous fuels, enhance native grasslands, improve road access, develop two rock pits, reduce sediment delivery, provide timber products. Requesting EAD under IIJA, comment period per IIJA offered if granted.

Hazardous fuels reduction using prescribed burning, commercial and noncommercial thinning.

The Pacific Northwest Region is collaborating with nine Forests to develop a region-wide project to protect whitebark pine trees (Pinus albicaulis) that have a high level of white pine blister rust resistance.

Hazardous fuels reduction within stands at high risk for insect and disease out break as well as a high risk fireshed.

Relocate the Breshears trailhead to an existing rock pit with better access to improve safety and an anticipated increase in use.

Redistribute waste rock from dredge mining along 2 miles of the Upper Grande Ronde River and relocate approximately 1 mile of road to improve floodplain conditions.

The purpose of this project is to create strategic fuel breaks that would assist in the management of future natural and prescribed fires on National Forest lands that are in close proximity to the Eagle Cap Wilderness and private lands and adjacent to communities and infrastructure.

Establish and maintain fuel breaks to reduce the risk of uncharacteristic wildfire within the Carson/Pine Valley Wildland Urban Interface.

Project Archive

Some of our older projects can be accessed in our Project Archive.