Forest Service updating decades-old plans for 3 forests in Eastern Oregon
BAKER CITY — Start with a swath of land more than twice as big as Rhode Island and Delaware.
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BAKER CITY — Start with a swath of land more than twice as big as Rhode Island and Delaware.
BAKER CITY — Start with a swath of land more than twice as big as Rhode Island and Delaware.
It may be nearly 20 years overdue, but the U.S. Forest Service is ready again to update its management plans for three national forests in the rugged Blue Mountains of
The Malheur, Umatilla and Wallowa-Whitman national forests, collectively known as the Blue Mountains, have been operating under a forest management plan developed more than 30 years ago. The most recent effort to revise the plan failed in 2019. Now, the U.S. Forest Service is restarting the process.
The Malheur, Umatilla and Wallowa-Whitman national forests, collectively known as the Blue Mountains, have been operating on a forest management plan developed in the 1990s. Two different attempts to revise that plan have failed, the latest one in 2018. Now, the U.S. Forest Service is restarting the process.