Stop rushed logging on 4,051 acres in Umpqua's Tiller District
Southwest Tiller Fuel Break Project
U.S. Forest Service· Tiller Ranger District, Umpqua 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 Oregon
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.
- Cascadia Wildlands
Works Oregon: plaintiff in the January 2026 suit against the Roseburg BLM plan to log nearly 7,000 acres near Camas Valley.
- Crag Law Center
Works Oregon: represented Bird Alliance of Oregon, the Center for Biological Diversity, and Cascadia Wildlands in the 2012 Endangered Species Act suit over logging occupied murrelet habitat, which ended in the 2014 settlement canceling 28 timber sales.
- Oregon Natural Desert Association
Works 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
Works Oregon: repeat plaintiff against BLM old-growth sales on the O&C lands, including the Coast Range project where courts halted logging of stands with trees over a thousand years old.
Every group above is on STAND for Public Lands, with its court record, its filings and who backs it.
An emergency bypass lets the Forest Service skip a full review before approving commercial thinning across 4,051 acres.
What’s at risk
Stands under 80 years old on the Tiller Ranger District face commercial thinning and noncommercial thinning on 2,398 additional acres. The agency invoked an emergency determination that eliminates all future comment opportunities after this one.
If this goes through
Commercial thinning on 4,051 acres and burning on 10,481 acres will proceed under a compressed review that permanently forecloses further public input.
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
Make these points, in your own words
- I oppose this action as proposed, and I ask the agency to weigh the specific harms below.
- The agency used an emergency situation determination under the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act to bypass standard NEPA review, making this public comment period the only chance for input before a final decision is made.
- This project authorizes commercial thinning on 4,051 acres of stands under 80 years old in the Umpqua National Forest, removing relatively young trees under a process with no further public review.
- Oppose allowing a single comment period to serve as the sole public input for a project affecting over 16,000 acres of the Tiller Ranger District through logging, thinning, and prescribed burning across 82 road miles.
- 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
4051 ac commercial thinning in stands under 80 years old, 2398 ac noncomm thinning, 10481 ac prescribed burning would contribute to roadside shaded fuelbreak PODs along 82 road miles. Administrative site prep for new Remote Access Weather Station with closure of 2.2 mi roads. 40 culvert improvements
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