Protect wildlife crossings at Snoqualmie Pass East
I-90 Snoqualmie Pass East - Public Safety/Wildlife Closure Area
U.S. Forest Service· Okanogan-Wenatchee National ForestU.S. Forest Service project page ↗
Forest ServiceWe track this on the agency’s own system of record, where most on-the-ground decisions live.
The groups on this fight
4 groups work Washington
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.
- Cascade Forest Conservancy
Works Washington: they work only in Washington.
- Conservation Northwest
Works Washington: submitted formal comments defending Hanford Reach National Monument during the 2017 federal monument review and publicly opposed any boundary adjustment or rescindment..
- Friends of the San Juans
Works Washington: they work only in Washington.
- Olympic Park Advocates
Works Washington: they work only in Washington.
Every group above is on STAND for Public Lands, with its court record, its filings and who backs it.
A 4,888-acre closure would keep people away from active wildlife crossing structures along I-90.
What’s at risk
Without the closure, human access to the crossing area could deter wildlife from using the new underpasses and overpasses. The crossings were built to reconnect animal populations separated by I-90.
If we stay silent
The Forest Service would restrict access across 4,888 acres and along 3.2 miles of Bonneville Power Administration roads, giving wildlife the undisturbed corridor the crossings were designed to provide.
Our plain-English read of the official notice ↗. Check it against the agency’s own words below.
3 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.
- I support the proposed closure of nearly 4,900 acres of Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest land to protect wildlife using the I-90 Snoqualmie Pass East crossing structures.
- Restricting access to 3.2 miles of Bonneville Power Administration roads near the crossing infrastructure is a reasonable step to keep both the public and wildlife safe.
- The I-90 Snoqualmie Pass East wildlife crossing structures represent a significant investment in habitat connectivity, and a dedicated closure area helps ensure those structures function as intended.
- 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 Forest Service proposes to implement a public safety and wildlife closure on National Forest land within and adjacent to the I-90 SPE crossing structures. The wildlife closure area encompasses 4,888 acres and affects 3.2 miles of Bonneville Power Administration access roads.
The reporting behind this
From More Than Just ParksAfter more than a decade chasing peak color across America, we built the foliage map we always wanted.
Another foreign mining company wants a piece of America’s public lands. This one comes with millions of gallons of groundwater pumping and radioactive radon.
The administration went looking for a sliver of Yosemite for a private developer and finally convinced the rest of public-lands world that if Yosemite is negotiable, nothing is safe.
More actions that need you
Go deeper, free
See how your members of Congress vote on public lands
Every representative, graded on the votes that decide the fate of parks, forests, and refuges.
Open ↗The mapSee the places under active threat
A live map of the parks, monuments, and wild country in the crosshairs right now.
Open ↗A wrong fact, a dead link, a form that wouldn’t take your letter: one tap and it comes to the people who build PLAN, with this fight attached.
Know an open comment period we are missing, or spotted a wrong deadline? .