Comments closed August 4
Stop post-fire logging on 600 acres in Nezperce-Clearwater
U.S. Forest Service · Nezperce-Clearwater National Forest, Giant White Pine Trailhead
- What
- The Forest Service wants to log 600 burned acres before the forest can naturally recover.
- Where
- Nezperce-Clearwater National Forest, Giant White Pine Trailhead, Trail #221-A, ID
- How much
- Post-fire forests on the Nezperce-Clearwater provide critical habitat and soil stability that logging can permanently disrupt.
- Decided
- Comments closed August 4, 2026. No decision document is on file yet.Date from Forest Service comment page (CARA) ↗, read August 1, 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 4, 2026, from Forest Service comment page (CARA), its “comments are requested through” date ↗. Read August 1, 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
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 wants to log 600 burned acres before the forest can naturally recover.
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
Salvage of 600 acres of trees as a result of White Pine Fire with intermediate and regeneration harvest. Road maintenance on 21 miles of road, and 9 miles of temporary roads. Bridge replacement on trail #221-A and visitor parking improvements at Giant White Pine Trailhead.
The groups on this fight
4 groups predicted likely to care in Idaho
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- Advocates for the West
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Stibnite Mine / Boise National Forest, Idaho: Lead counsel for the six-group coalition suing over the Stibnite Gold Project, filing the February 2025 complaint, a May 2026 preliminary injunction motion, and a June 2026 emergency appeal to halt construction.
- Center for Biological Diversity
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Stibnite Mine / Boise National Forest, 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
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Craters of the Moon National Monument, 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
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Bruneau-Jarbidge Rivers, Idaho: Challenging BLM's grazing management across 1.4 million acres of the Jarbidge and Bruneau river canyonlands, where it won an injunction blocking ranchers from grazing beyond their permit limits.
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
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The photograph on this page: Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forests, Idaho. More Than Just Parks.
In court on this ground
No court case we track is over Clearwater National Forest and Nezperce National Forest.
Who holds the vote
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