How do I submit a public comment on Little Giant Post-Fire Recovery, Phase 1?

Submit your comment through the agency's official portal at https://cara.fs2c.usda.gov/Public/CommentInput?Project=434925. This page includes talking points and a starter comment you can make your own.

When is the public comment deadline for Little Giant Post-Fire Recovery, Phase 1?

Comments are due by October 23, 2026. Comments received after the deadline may not be considered by the agency.

Do public comments actually change federal decisions?

Yes, when they are substantive. Agencies are legally required to read and respond to substantive comments before finalizing a rule, and specific personal comments about real places and real uses carry far more weight than identical form letters. Courts have overturned rules when agencies ignored substantive comments.

Stop unreviewed logging in the Little Giant Fire burn area

3 holes in the agency’s own analysis

Make these points, in your own words

The Little Giant Fire burned over 270 square miles and became the largest wildfire in Chelan County's history, so the Forest Service should ensure this Phase 1 recovery plan fully justifies every timber harvest and road action before work begins this winter.
Harvesting fire-killed trees on the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest can accelerate erosion and disrupt natural post-fire regeneration, and the agency must explain how it will prevent those harms.
The Forest Service is voluntarily accepting public input without a formal comment period, so it must treat all submitted concerns with the same rigor it would apply under a required NEPA process.
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.

PLAN's read: high threat

A language model's read of the agency's notice, not an agency rating and not an editor's finding. It’s read from the official notice ↗, and it isn’t a grade.

The Forest Service wants to harvest fire-killed trees across a 270-square-mile Chelan County burn with minimal public process.

What’s at risk

Fire-killed trees in the Little Giant Fire area provide critical post-fire habitat for cavity-nesting birds, insects, and recovering vegetation. The agency is moving to log them this winter while voluntarily, not formally, accepting public input.

If this goes through

Salvage logging and road work will proceed under a streamlined process, removing snags and burned wood before the public has a guaranteed formal say.

Our plain-English read of the official notice ↗. Check it against the agency’s own words below.

In the agency’s own words

The Okanagan-Wenatchee National Forest is proposing hazardous fuels reduction, timber recovery, and essential road work to support post‑fire recovery in the 2026 Little Giant Fire area, improving safety and restoring forest conditions.

U.S. Forest Service project page ↗

The groups on this fight

4 groups predicted likely to care in Washington

Predicted likely to care is a guess from the group's sourced work in Washington, with no link to this decision. Give straight to them; nothing routes through us.

Cascade Forest Conservancy
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Works Washington: They work only in Washington.
Conservation Northwest
Predicted likely to care · a guess
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
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Works Washington: They work only in Washington.
Olympic Park Advocates
Predicted likely to care · a guess
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.

Who signs it

The notice names no signer PLAN could read. PLAN names a decision-maker only when the document names one.

The ground

This fight isn’t bound to a map place in PLAN’s record yet. The notice names Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest (WA); none is a unit on the threatened lands map, so there’s no place page to open or watch.

The photograph on this page: Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, Washington. More Than Just Parks.

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.

See how your members vote ↗

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Forest ServiceWe track this on the agency’s own system of record, where most on-the-ground decisions live.

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Stop unreviewed logging in the Little Giant Fire burn area

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