Comments closed August 7
Stop fuel breaks above the Wallowa Valley at Eagle Cap
U.S. Forest Service · Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, Eagle Cap Wilderness
- What
- A second, separate project would build permanent fuel breaks in the Upper Wallowa Valley, on the north edge of the Eagle Cap Wilderness. Same forest, same deadline, different ground.
- Where
- Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, Eagle Cap Wilderness, OR
- How much
- The Eagle Cap Wilderness and surrounding national forest lands face physical alteration from constructed fuel breaks.
- Decided
- Comments closed August 7, 2026. No decision document is on file yet.Date from Forest Service comment page (CARA) ↗, read July 31, 2026.
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.
- DecidedAugust 7, 2026, from Forest Service comment page (CARA), its “comments are requested through” date ↗. Read July 31, 2026. 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.
Affects public lands
A second, separate project would build permanent fuel breaks in the Upper Wallowa Valley, on the north edge of the Eagle Cap Wilderness. Same forest, same deadline, different ground.
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 purpose of this project is to create strategic fuel breaks that would assist in the management of future natural and prescribed fires on National Forest lands that are in close proximity to the Eagle Cap Wilderness and private lands and adjacent to communities and infrastructure.
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
The window has closed, so there’s no watch to set on it here.
The photograph on this page: Maxwell Lake trail, Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, Oregon. More Than Just Parks.
In court on this ground
No court case we track is over Eagle Cap Wilderness, Wallowa National Forest and 1 more unit.
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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