Open for comment · closes November 25
Deschutes National Forest targets Moore and Davis Creek drainages for logging
U.S. Forest Service · Moore Creek Subwatershed, Davis Creek Subwatershed
- What
- The Forest Service wants to log and treat dry forests in two Deschutes National Forest subwatersheds.
- Where
- Moore Creek Subwatershed, Davis Creek Subwatershed, Crescent Ranger District, OR
- How much
- Dry forest ecosystems in the Moore Creek and Davis Creek Subwatersheds face alteration through logging and vegetation treatments.
- By when
- Comments to U.S. Forest Service by November 25, 2026.Date from Forest Service CARA comment page ↗, read October 27, 2026.
What to ask forAll 3 points →
The MODA Active Management Project must fully disclose how proposed logging and vegetation management in the Moore Creek and Davis Creek Subwatersheds will affect wildlife, water quality, and soil health before any work is approved.
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.
- By whenNovember 25, 2026, from Forest Service CARA comment page, the notice text ↗: “requested through 11/25/2026 11:59:59 PM (Pacific Standard Time)”. Read October 27, 2026.
- Read from PLAN’s record October 27, 2026.
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Comment now3 holes in the agency’s own analysis
Make these points, in your own words
- The MODA Active Management Project must fully disclose how proposed logging and vegetation management in the Moore Creek and Davis Creek Subwatersheds will affect wildlife, water quality, and soil health before any work is approved.
- The Crescent Ranger District should explain exactly which dry forest restoration techniques will be used in the Moore Creek and Davis Creek Subwatersheds and how each technique avoids long-term harm to the forested ecosystem.
- I oppose approving this project without a thorough NEPA analysis showing that active management in these two subwatersheds on the Deschutes National Forest will genuinely restore rather than degrade the dry forest ecosystem.
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.
Affects public lands
The Forest Service wants to log and treat dry forests in two Deschutes National Forest subwatersheds.
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 MODA Active Management Project proposes dry forest restoration techniques in order to improve and maintain the forested ecosystem of of the Moore Creek and Davis Creek Subwatersheds on the Crescent Ranger District.
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
42 Divide Timber Project, Oregon: Plaintiff in the January 2026 suit against the Roseburg BLM plan to log nearly 7,000 acres near Camas Valley.
- Crag Law Center
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Elliott State Research Forest, 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
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.
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Who signs it
The notice names no signer PLAN could read. PLAN names a decision-maker only when the document names one.
The ground
Deschutes National Forest
The photograph on this page: Deschutes National Forest, Oregon. More Than Just Parks.
Who holds the vote
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