Comments closed July 17
Stop commercial logging in Oregon old-growth reserve forests
Bureau of Land Management · Lost Horse project area, Late-Successional Reserves (LSR)
- What
- BLM plans four commercial timber sales in forests set aside to grow into old-growth habitat.
- Where
- Lost Horse project area, Late-Successional Reserves (LSR), Riparian Reserves (RR)
- How much
- Late-Successional Reserves and Riparian Reserves in the Lost Horse project area face commercial thinning of 30-to-80-year-old Douglas-fir stands.
- Decided
- Comments closed July 17, 2026. No decision document is on file yet.Date from BLM ePlanning project page ↗, read July 8, 2026.
Where these four lines come from
- WhatOur plain-English read of the BLM NEPA Register DOI-BLM-ORWA-C040-2026-0003-DNA ↗. Check it against the agency’s own words under Case.
- WhereThe places and states the notice names, as PLAN read them.
- How muchThe first sentence of our What’s at risk read of the notice; the whole read is under Case.
- DecidedJuly 17, 2026, from BLM ePlanning project page, its public participation period ↗. Read July 8, 2026. The decision document is the one on file in PLAN’s record.
- Read from PLAN’s record November 10, 2026.
What the proposal said, and what the decision did
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PLAN's read: high threat
BLM plans four commercial timber sales in forests set aside to grow into old-growth habitat.
What’s at risk
If this goes through
Our plain-English read of the official notice ↗. Check it against the agency’s own words below.
In the agency’s own words
The BLM proposes to conduct four separate commercial thinning timber sales in 30–80-year-old age-class Douglas-fir-dominated stands following the same proposed actions and project design features described in Alternative 2 of the Late-Successional [Reserve] (LSR) and Riparian Reserve (RR) Restoration Management (Programmatic) Environmental Assessment
Who signs it
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The ground
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