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Stop commercial logging on Cherokee National Forest
U.S. Forest Service · Sugar Mountain, Cherokee National Forest
- What
- The Forest Service plans to cut timber on Sugar Mountain and reshape its forests for decades.
- Where
- Sugar Mountain, Cherokee National Forest, TN
- How much
- Mature forest on Sugar Mountain in Cherokee National Forest faces commercial logging and habitat conversion under this proposal.
- Decided
- Comments closed; deadline not stated by the agency. No decision document is on file yet.
Where these four lines come from
- WhatOur plain-English read of the Forest Service project page ↗. Check it against the agency’s own words under Case.
- WhereThe places and states the project page 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.
- DecidedWe haven’t found where this fight’s close date came from, so the card shows no date. The decision document is the one on file in PLAN’s record.
- Read from PLAN’s record November 9, 2026.
What the proposal said, and what the decision did
No figure from the proposal has been checked against the decision on this fight yet. What the record does hold is the issues ledger below.
No decision document is on PLAN’s record for this fight yet. When the agency’s decision lands, what it answered goes here.
PLAN's read: high threat
The Forest Service plans to cut timber on Sugar Mountain and reshape its forests for decades.
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 Sugar Mountain Project would utilize commercial timber harvest, wildlife opening enhancements, timber stand improvements, prescribed fire, and other associated actions to increase early successional habitat and improve forest health.
The groups on this fight
4 groups predicted likely to care in Tennessee
Predicted likely to care is a guess from the group's sourced work in Tennessee, with no link to this decision. Give straight to them; nothing routes through us.
- Friends of Moccasin Bend
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Works Tennessee: Tennessee is one of the 2 states they work in.
- Friends of Stones River National Battlefield
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Works Tennessee: They work only in Tennessee.
- Friends of the Smokies
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Works Tennessee: Tennessee is one of the 2 states they work in.
- Great Smoky Mountains Association
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Works Tennessee: Tennessee is one of the 2 states they work in.
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
The window has closed, so there’s no watch to set on it here.
The photograph on this page: Wild turkey in hardwood forest. It’s the country this decision sits in, not the site itself. More Than Just Parks.
In court on this ground
No court case we track is over Cherokee National Forest.
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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