Resource Management

Projects & Plans

Wildfire Crisis Strategy

The Forest Service launched a 10-year strategy to address the wildfire crisis in the places where it poses the most immediate threats to communities. The strategy, called “Confronting the Wildfire Crisis: A Strategy for Protecting Communities and Improving Resilience in America’s Forests,” combines a historic investment of congressional funding with years of scientific research and planning into a national effort that will dramatically increase the scale of forest health treatments over the next decade. 10 landscapes were selected to receive $131 million in Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) investment to begin implementation of the Wildfire Crisis Strategy in 2022. In early 2023, the Colville National Forest was selected among 11 landscapes to receive additional funding. The first year, fiscal year 2023, the Forest will receive $2.1 million. 

The Forest Service's goal in launching the Wildfire Crisis Strategy was to safeguard communities and the resources they depend on by increasing fuels treatments over time, promoting community readiness, and supporting postfire recovery and restoration.

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Recreation Site – Facility Master Planning

• The Colville National Forest is proposing future management of developed recreation sites through a process called “Recreation Site Facility Master Planning (RS-FMP).”

Hydroelectric Projects

• After two years of careful study and negotiations, the Forest Service, Seattle City Light, and Pend Oreille Public Utility District, along with several state and federal agencies, the Kalispel Tribe, conservation groups, and concerned local citizens, filed two comprehensive settlement agreements March 29, 2010, with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). The filings signify the culmination of many years of effort to resolve issues related to relicensing of the Boundary Hydroelectric Project and the surrender of the Sullivan Hydroelectric Project.

5 Year and 20-Year Plans

• This is where you will find information and planning of land management and other projects. the 5-Year Harvest Plan and the 20-Year Plan.

Ecosystem Management

• The Colville has proposed timber sales, timber sale auction results, and other related timber reports available.

Environmental Analysis

• The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) helps us fulfill our mission by ensuring that environmental information is available to citizens and public officials before decisions are made and before actions are taken.

Environmental Management System (EMS)

• The purpose of the Colville National Forest's Environmental Management System (EMS) is to establish, document, implement, maintain and continually improve the environmental performance associated with the activities, products, and services of the Forest.

Schedule of Proposed Actions (SOPA)

• Four times a year, Colville publishes a Schedule of Proposed Actions (SOPA) which provides project information, status, and contacts.