Support prescribed burning across Idaho Panhandle National Forests
IPNF Forest-wide Prescribed Fire
U.S. Forest Service· Idaho Panhandle National ForestsU.S. Forest Service project page ↗
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The groups on this fight
4 groups work Idaho
By footprint, from the same match the STAND matchmaker runs; none is linked to this decision in our record yet. Give straight to them; nothing routes through us.
- Advocates for the West
Works Idaho: represented Western Watersheds Project in the Jarbidge grazing litigation, winning 2004 and 2005 NEPA rulings, a 2009 injunction that grazing-as-usual must end, and a 2011 order closing 17 allotments across the 625,000-acre resource area..
- Center for Biological Diversity
Works Idaho: plaintiff and co-counsel in the February 2025 lawsuit arguing federal wildlife agencies violated the Endangered Species Act by failing to protect salmon, steelhead, bull trout, and wolverine from the mine..
- Idaho Conservation League
Works Idaho: mobilized Idahoans to file Interior Department comments defending Craters of the Moon during the 2017 national monument review, arguing shrinkage would damage the economies of Blaine, Butte, Minidoka, and Power counties..
- Western Watersheds Project
Works Idaho: has litigated BLM grazing mismanagement across 1.4 million acres of the Jarbidge and Bruneau river canyonlands since the early 2000s, winning injunctions against permit overruns and Ninth Circuit-affirmed orders requiring allotment assessments and stream protections..
Every group above is on STAND for Public Lands, with its court record, its filings and who backs it.
The Forest Service wants to use controlled burns to reduce wildfire risk for Idaho Panhandle communities and forests.
What’s at risk
Communities and forests in the Idaho Panhandle face greater risk from large, severe wildfires if prescribed burning is not expanded. Without this project, fuels will continue to build up across these landscapes.
If we stay silent
The Forest Service can apply prescribed fire more broadly across the Idaho Panhandle, making forests more resilient and reducing the chance that future wildfires grow uncontrollably and threaten nearby communities.
Our plain-English read of the official notice ↗. Check it against the agency’s own words below.
4 holes in the agency’s own analysis
What the public could have raised, from the agency’s own document
- I support this action and urge the agency to advance it.
- The document authorizes up to 30,000 acres of prescribed fire annually but provides no analysis of cumulative effects from treating this maximum acreage year after year, particularly regarding impacts to whitebark pine, sensitive plants, soil productivity, or wildlife habitat connectivity. The EA analyzes effects only directionally and for typical 10,000-acre years, leaving a significant gap in reasoned analysis for the authorized upper limit. The agency should prepare a supplemental analysis evaluating multi-year cumulative effects at the 30,000-acre annual ceiling, especially for species with likely adverse effect determinations.
- I support the Idaho Panhandle National Forests proposal to increase prescribed fire use across these landscapes to reduce the risk of large and severe wildfires.
- Expanding prescribed fire on the Idaho Panhandle National Forests is a proven way to promote forest resiliency and protect local communities and valued resources from wildfire damage.
- This project uses the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act's Forest Health and Hazardous Fuels Emergency Action Determination, which allows the Forest Service to move forward efficiently on critical fuels management work.
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- 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.
In the agency’s own words
The project proposes to increase the application of prescribed fire across landscapes to reduce the risk of uncharacteristically severe and large wildfires, promote forest resiliency, and reduce impact risk on local communities and valued resources.
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