How do I submit a public comment on Whitman Post-Fire Recovery?

Submit your comment through the agency's official portal at https://cara.fs2c.usda.gov/Public/CommentInput?Project=446982. This page includes talking points and a starter comment you can make your own.

When is the public comment deadline for Whitman Post-Fire Recovery?

Comments are due by November 12, 2026. Comments received after the deadline may not be considered by the agency.

Do public comments actually change federal decisions?

Yes, when they are substantive. Agencies are legally required to read and respond to substantive comments before finalizing a rule, and specific personal comments about real places and real uses carry far more weight than identical form letters. Courts have overturned rules when agencies ignored substantive comments.

Stop post-fire logging across 7,402 acres on the Whitman Ranger District

4 holes in the agency’s own analysis

Make these points, in your own words

This proposal authorizes post-fire logging and vegetation management across 7,402 acres of the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, and I oppose approving it without full public scrutiny of impacts to wildlife, fish, and rare plants in the affected area.
The Anthony, Olive Butte, and McCully fire areas deserve recovery plans that prioritize watershed protection and natural regeneration, not commercial forest products extraction.
Post-fire ecosystems on the Whitman Ranger District support wildlife and rare plants that need time to recover, and rushing logging operations under the guise of fuels management can cause lasting harm to these resources.
Oppose approving this project until the NEPA process fully evaluates how post-fire recovery activities across all three fire areas will affect recreation, watershed health, and rare plant communities on the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest.

Say something only you can say. The law requires the agency to consider and respond to substantive comments, and specifics are what make a comment substantive.

PLAN's read: high threat

A language model's read of the agency's notice, not an agency rating and not an editor's finding. It’s read from the official notice ↗, and it isn’t a grade.

The Forest Service wants to log burned land across 7,402 acres left by three 2026 fires.

What’s at risk

Forests recovering from the Anthony, Olive Butte, and McCully fires face commercial timber harvest before wildlife, watershed, and vegetation can naturally stabilize. Post-fire logging removes the standing dead trees, root systems, and seed sources that burned forests depend on to recover.

If this goes through

If approved, 7,402 acres of fire-affected land on the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest will be opened to post-fire logging and other ground-disturbing activities, setting back natural forest recovery across all three fire areas.

Our plain-English read of the official notice ↗. Check it against the agency’s own words below.

In the agency’s own words

The Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, Whitman Ranger District proposed to implement post-fire recovery activities across 7,402 acres between 3 large fires (Anthony, Olive Butte, and McCully) that burned during the 2026 fire season.

Forest Service project page ↗

The groups on this fight

4 groups predicted likely to care in Oregon

Predicted likely to care is a guess from the group's sourced work in Oregon, with no link to this decision. Give straight to them; nothing routes through us.

Cascadia Wildlands
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Western Oregon O&C Lands, Oregon: Serial litigant against western Oregon BLM logging, from the 2016 management plan challenge to the current round of timber sale suits.
Crag Law Center
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Western Oregon O&C Lands, Oregon: Counsel of record for the conservation groups fighting BLM logging across the O&C forests.
Oregon Natural Desert Association
Predicted likely to care · a guess
McDermitt Caldera, Oregon: Anchors the McDermitt Caldera Coalition on the Oregon side and fought the BLM's December 2025 approval of the Jindalee/HiTech lithium exploration project through the permitting process.
Oregon Wild
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Western Oregon O&C Lands, Oregon: Its attorneys, with Cascadia Wildlands and Crag Law Center, represent the groups challenging BLM's Blue and Gold old-growth logging project in the Coast Range.

Every group above is on STAND for Public Lands, with its court record, its filings and who backs it.

Who signs it

The notice names no signer PLAN could read. PLAN names a decision-maker only when the document names one.

The ground

Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

The photograph on this page: Maxwell Lake trail, Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, Oregon. More Than Just Parks.

In court on this ground

This fight isn’t bound to a land unit in PLAN’s record yet, so there are no court cases to show for its ground.

Who holds the vote

PLAN’s record doesn’t tie a member of Congress to this fight yet. The scorecard grades the votes and bills that decide public lands; nothing joins a vote or a bill to this decision, so there’s no member to name here without guessing.

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Stop post-fire logging across 7,402 acres on the Whitman Ranger District

4 holes in the agency’s own analysis

In the agency’s own words

4 groups predicted likely to care in Oregon

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