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HEARING TO REVIEW THE 2015 FIRE SEASON 

AND LONG-TERM TRENDS 

HEARING 

BEFORE THE

SUBCOMMITTEE ON CONSERVATION AND FORESTRY 

OF THE

COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

ONE HUNDRED FOURTEENTH CONGRESS 

FIRST SESSION 

OCTOBER 8, 2015 

Serial No. 114–30 

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COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE 

K. MICHAEL CONAWAY, Texas, Chairman 

RANDY NEUGEBAUER, Texas, 

Vice Chairman 

BOB GOODLATTE, Virginia 

FRANK D. LUCAS, Oklahoma 

STEVE KING, Iowa 

MIKE ROGERS, Alabama 

GLENN THOMPSON, Pennsylvania 

BOB GIBBS, Ohio 

AUSTIN SCOTT, Georgia 

ERIC A. ‘‘RICK’’ CRAWFORD, Arkansas 

SCOTT DESJARLAIS, Tennessee 

CHRISTOPHER P. GIBSON, New York 

VICKY HARTZLER, Missouri 

DAN BENISHEK, Michigan 

JEFF DENHAM, California 

DOUG LAMALFA, California 

RODNEY DAVIS, Illinois 

TED S. YOHO, Florida 

JACKIE WALORSKI, Indiana 

RICK W. ALLEN, Georgia 

MIKE BOST, Illinois 

DAVID ROUZER, North Carolina 

RALPH LEE ABRAHAM, Louisiana 

JOHN R. MOOLENAAR, Michigan 

DAN NEWHOUSE, Washington 

TRENT KELLY, Mississippi 

COLLIN C. PETERSON, Minnesota, Ranking 

Minority Member 

DAVID SCOTT, Georgia 

JIM COSTA, California 

TIMOTHY J. WALZ, Minnesota 

MARCIA L. FUDGE, Ohio 

JAMES P. MCGOVERN, Massachusetts 

SUZAN K. DELBENE, Washington 

FILEMON VELA, Texas 

MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM, New Mexico 

ANN M. KUSTER, New Hampshire 

RICHARD M. NOLAN, Minnesota 

CHERI BUSTOS, Illinois 

SEAN PATRICK MALONEY, New York 

ANN KIRKPATRICK, Arizona 

PETE AGUILAR, California 

STACEY E. PLASKETT, Virgin Islands 

ALMA S. ADAMS, North Carolina 

GWEN GRAHAM, Florida 

BRAD ASHFORD, Nebraska 

SCOTT C. GRAVES, Staff Director 

ROBERT L. LAREW, Minority Staff Director 

SUBCOMMITTEE ON CONSERVATION AND FORESTRY

GLENN THOMPSON, Pennsylvania, Chairman 

FRANK D. LUCAS, Oklahoma 

STEVE KING, Iowa 

SCOTT DESJARLAIS, Tennessee 

CHRISTOPHER P. GIBSON, New York 

DAN BENISHEK, Michigan 

RICK W. ALLEN, Georgia 

MIKE BOST, Illinois 

MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM, New Mexico, 

Ranking Minority Member 

ANN M. KUSTER, New Hampshire 

RICHARD M. NOLAN, Minnesota 

SUZAN K. DELBENE, Washington 

ANN KIRKPATRICK, Arizona 

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C O N T E N T S 

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DelBene, Hon. Suzan K., a Representative in Congress from Washington, 

submitted report ................................................................................................... 73 

Lujan Grisham, Hon. Michelle, a Representative in Congress from New Mexico, opening statement ......................................................................................... 4 

Newhouse, Hon. Dan, a Representative in Congress from Washington, submitted letter .......................................................................................................... 87 

Thompson, Hon. Glenn, a Representative in Congress from Pennsylvania, 

opening statement ................................................................................................ 1 

Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 3 

WITNESSES

Tidwell, Thomas L., Chief, U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. ................................................................................... 6 

Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 7 

Submitted questions ......................................................................................... 88 

Haeberle, Rod, Owner, Haeberle Ranch, Okanogan, WA ..................................... 30 

Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 32 

Topik, Ph.D., Christopher, Director, Restoring America’s Forests, North 

America Region, The Nature Conservancy, Arlington, VA ............................... 44 

Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 46 

Litzenberg, Erik J., Fire Chief, Santa Fe Fire Department, Santa Fe, NM; 

on behalf of International Association of Fire Chiefs ....................................... 54 

Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 55 

Priddy, (Ret.), COL Ronald N., Director of Government Affairs, 10 Tanker 

Air Carrier, Albuquerque, NM ............................................................................ 58 

Prepared statement .......................................................................................... 59 

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HEARING TO REVIEW THE 2015 FIRE SEASON 

AND LONG-TERM TRENDS 

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2015 

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 

SUBCOMMITTEE ON CONSERVATION AND FORESTRY, 

COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE, 

Washington, D.C. 

The Subcommittee met, pursuant to call, at 10:00 a.m., in Room 

1302 of the Longworth House Office Building, Hon. Glenn Thompson [Chairman of the Subcommittee] presiding. 

Members present: Representatives Thompson, Lucas, Benishek, 

Allen, Bost, Newhouse, Lujan Grisham, Kuster, Nolan, DelBene, 

Kirkpatrick, Costa, and Aguilar. 

Staff present: Haley Graves, Josh Maxwell, Mollie Wilken, Patricia Straughn, Skylar Sowder, Stephanie Addison, Faisal Siddiqui, 

Evan Jurkovich, Lisa Shelton, Liz Friedlander, Matthew MacKenzie, Nicole Scott, and Carly Reedholm 

OPENING STATEMENT OF HON. GLENN THOMPSON, A 

REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM PENNSYLVANIA 

The CHAIRMAN. Good morning, everyone. This hearing of the 

Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry, to review the 2015 

fire season and long-term trends, will come to order. We will open 

with some opening statements. 

Good morning again, and welcome to today’s hearing of the Conservation and Forestry Subcommittee to review the 2015 fire season and the long-term trends. 

This year, western states, including Alaska, have experienced yet 

another catastrophic fire season with over 9 million acres burned 

to date. Now, this continues an alarming trend where the average 

number of acres burned each year has nearly doubled since the 

1990s. As such, the amount that the government spends on suppressing these wildfires has also doubled, while the dollars Congress has allotted for fighting these fires have remained nearly the 

same. 

When the fire-suppression funding falls short, the financial burden falls on the Forest Service and the Department of the Interior 

to cover firefighting costs from their non-fire budgets. Now, these 

fire transfers are halting the programs and activities that promote 

forest health and hazardous fuels reduction, and it is impacting 

local Forest Service personnel nationwide. This year alone, over 50 

percent of the Forest Service budget has gone towards wildfire suppression, and the USDA expects this figure to grow. 

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To many, the solution seems simple: Congress should allot more 

funding for fire suppression. However, that is not necessarily the 

only solution. While the budget and the fire-suppression funding 

are issues that must be addressed, we must also look at the culture 

of how we have been managing our National Forests. Forest Service decisions have significant consequences, and we must make 

sure that policies are in place to keep our forests healthy. 

Healthy forests require active management, in the form of mechanical thinning, prescribed fires, and other activities, to ensure 

that they do not become overgrown tinderboxes. Healthy National 

Forests are more sustainable for generations to come, due to decreased risk of catastrophic fires and invasive species outbreaks. 

Unfortunately, much of our National Forest System is unhealthy. 

In fact, Forest Service staff has identified up to 1⁄4 of the 193 million acres of the National Forest System as ‘‘wildfire at risk.’’ 

As I mentioned earlier, it is true that the number of acres 

burned have doubled in recent years compared to the 1990s. However, over the same time, the number of forest fires has stayed constant, or in some years, even declined. Our National Forests are 

facing an epidemic of declining health, which is in direct correlation to the policies that have led to a dramatic decrease in managed acres. The Forest Service has drastically reduced timber harvest from almost 13 billion board feet in the late 1980s to only 3 

billion board feet of timber in recent years. And it is no wonder 

that the number of acres affected by catastrophic wildfires has doubled. This loss of forestland could potentially increase, especially if 

we do not find a comprehensive solution to this problem. 

The Agricultural Act of 2014 provided the tools for the Forest 

Service to successfully manage our National Forests. These provisions allow for expedited planning for projects, and it reauthorizes 

programs to allow the Forest Service to streamline projects, such 

as timber sales and restoration projects, or projects across neighboring jurisdiction. To build on the efforts of the 2014 Farm Bill, 

the House recently passed H.R. 2647, the Resilient Federal Forests 

Act of 2015. Now, this legislation is an earnest attempt to give the 

Forest Service more authority and much-needed flexibility to address these challenges of process, funding, litigation, necessary timber harvesting, and essential active management. 

While the Administration has publicly opposed H.R. 2647 because of a few provisions, there is much more from this legislation 

that will serve to reduce the catastrophic wildfires. There is not a 

single solution to solving the wildfire issue. I hope that today’s 

hearing will allow us to continue a dialogue to identify comprehensive solutions. We are very fortunate to have Forest Service Chief 

Tidwell testify. Chief, you have been great before about working 

with this Committee and being here, and sharing your perspectives 

even between hearings. I want to thank you for your communication and your partnership on this as we deal with this challenging 

issue. I hope to hear from the Chief on his experience with wildfire 

issues and what tools he has at his disposal, and what tools he 

needs to further prevent and suppress wildfires. I also look forward 

to hearing the testimony of our distinguished witnesses on our second panel. These individuals will be able to speak firsthand about 

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the consequences of catastrophic wildfires, and the need to find 

comprehensive solutions to address this issue. 

[The prepared statement of Mr. Thompson follows:] 

PREPARED STATEMENT OF HON. GLENN THOMPSON, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS

FROM PENNSYLVANIA

Good morning, and welcome to today’s hearing of the Conservation and Forestry 

Subcommittee to review the 2015 fire season and long term trends. 

This year, western states, including Alaska, have experienced yet another catastrophic fire season with over 9 million acres burned to date. 

This continues an alarming trend where the average number of acres burned each 

year has nearly doubled since the 1990s. 

As such, the amount the government spends on suppressing these wildfires has 

also doubled, while the dollars Congress has allotted for fighting these fires have 

remained nearly the same. 

When fire suppression funding falls short, the financial burden falls on the Forest 

Service and Department of the Interior to cover firefighting costs from their nonfire budgets. 

These fire transfers are halting the programs and activities that promote forest 

health and hazardous fuels reduction, and it is impacting local Forest Service personnel nationwide. This year alone, over 50% of the Forest Service budget has gone 

towards wildfire suppression and USDA expects this figure to grow. 

To many, the solution seems simple—Congress should allot more funding for fire 

suppression. 

However, that is not necessarily the only solution. While the budget and fire suppression funding are issues that must be addressed, we must also look at the culture of how we have been managing our National Forests. 

Forest Service decisions have significant consequences, and we must make sure 

that policies are in place to keep our forests healthy. 

Healthy forests require active management—in the form of mechanical thinning, 

prescribed fires, and other activities—to ensure they do not become overgrown 

tinderboxes. 

Healthy National Forests are more sustainable for generations to come due to decreased risk of catastrophic fires and invasive species outbreaks. 

Unfortunately, much of our National Forest System is unhealthy. In fact, Forest 

Service staff has identified up to 1⁄4 of the 193 million acres of the National Forest 

System as ‘‘wildfire at risk’’. 

As I mentioned earlier, it is true that the number of acres burned have doubled 

in recent years compared to the 1990s. However, over the same time, the number 

of forest fires has stayed constant or in some years even declined. 

Our National Forests are facing an epidemic of declining health, which is in direct 

correlation to policies that have led to a dramatic decrease in managed acres. 

The Forest Service has drastically reduced timber harvest from almost 13 billion 

board feet in the late 1980’s to only 3 billion board feet of timber in recent years. 

It is no wonder that the number of acres affected by catastrophic wildfire has doubled. This loss of forestland could potentially increase, especially if we do not find 

a comprehensive solution to this problem. 

The Agricultural Act of 2014 provided the tools for the Forest Service to successfully manage our National Forests. These provisions allow for expedited planning 

for projects, and it reauthorizes programs to allow the Forest Service to streamline 

projects, such as timber sale and restoration projects, or projects across neighboring 

jurisdictions. 

To build on the efforts of the 2014 Farm Bill, the House recently passed H.R. 

2647, the Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2015. This legislation is an earnest attempt to give the Forest Service more authority and much needed flexibility to address these challenges of process, funding, litigation, necessary timber harvesting, 

and essential active management. 

While the Administration has publicly opposed H.R. 2647 because of a few provisions, there is much from this legislation that will serve to reduce catastrophic 

wildfires. 

There is not a single solution to solving wildfire issues. I hope that today’s hearing will allow us to continue a dialogue to identify comprehensive solutions. 

We are very fortunate to have Forest Service Chief Tidwell testify before the Subcommittee today. I hope to hear from the Chief on his experience with wildfire 

issues and what tools he has at his disposal and what tools he needs to further prevent and suppress wildfires. 

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I also look forward to hearing the testimony of our distinguished witnesses on our 

second panel. These individuals will be able to speak first-hand about the consequences of catastrophic wildfires and the need to find comprehensive solutions to 

address this issue. 

I now recognize the Ranking Member, Ms. Lujan Grisham, for her opening statement. 

The CHAIRMAN. I now am pleased to recognize the Ranking Member, Ms. Lujan Grisham, for her opening statement. 

OPENING STATEMENT OF HON. MICHELLE LUJAN GRISHAM, A 

REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM NEW MEXICO 

Ms. LUJAN GRISHAM. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I really appreciate your calling today’s hearing to review the 2015 fire season 

and long-term wildfire trends. 

Although wildfires have occasionally been discussed in Committee hearings, it has, in fact, been more than 10 years since a 

wildfire-specific hearing has been held. In this time, the cost, the 

size, and the intensity of these fires have been dramatically increasing. This deserves our Committee’s and Congress’ attention, 

and this timely hearing allows us to discuss—I agree with the 

Chairman—a variety of ways that we can help mitigate, prevent, 

and fight wildfires. 

This year’s wildfire season has devastated much of the western 

United States. Many Members on this Committee have either experienced devastation caused by wildfires in their states or districts 

this year, have experienced it in the past, or know that it might 

just be a matter of time before wildfires impact their constituents. 

This fire season has resulted in the Forest Service spending $1.7 

billion fighting fires. We have seen more than 9 million acres 

burned, thousands of homes destroyed, and 13 firefighters have lost 

their lives in the line of duty. 

I am thankful and grateful that New Mexico avoided any big 

fires this year, but I know firsthand how devastating fires can be. 

For 3 years in a row, New Mexico endured some of the biggest fires 

the state had ever seen. The Whitewater Baldy Complex, Los 

Conchos, and the Gila fires devastated our land, our resources, and 

our communities. 

In this last fiscal year, Fiscal Year 2015, the Forest Service spent 

$700 million more than what Congress initially appropriated, and 

as a result, the agency had to transfer funds from non-fire programs to support the immediate emergency needs of fire suppression. 

I was pleased to see that we supported getting that $700 million 

supplemental request in the CR, but fighting for those supplemental requests is not the best method to assure that we have the 

resources that we need to address wildfire. 

Unfortunately, this is becoming the norm and not the exception. 

Since 2004, the Forest Service has needed some eight supplemental 

appropriations, and this fire borrowing trend has been terribly disruptive to the Forest Service’s ability to carry out its Congressional-mandated mission. Just this fire season, the Southwest region, which includes New Mexico and Arizona, lost more than $15 

million to fire borrowing. This affected several important projects 

in New Mexico, and put on hold the Santa Fe National Forest 

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tion project; the El Medio Forest Renewal Project, which is a 

thinning project that would have harvested 315 acres in the Carson 

National Forest; and the riparian restoration at Three Pueblos 

Project, which is a forest restoration collaboration project among 

the pueblos of Ohkay Owingeh, Santa Clara, and Nambe ́. Unfortunately, these types of projects that are put on hold are 

exactly the kinds of projects that, in fact, prevent future wildfires. 

To make matters worse, fire borrowing is only part of the problem. 

The rising 10 year suppression cost average for wildfires means 

less funding is going to non-fire Forest Service employees and programs each year. Because of this, the Forest Service now has fewer 

resources for recreation, research and development, and road maintenance. There are also fewer resources to carry out NEPA analysis, timber contracts, timber salvage, controlled burns, and other 

Forest Service management activities. 

A number of factors contribute to the increase in size and intensity of wildfires, including drought, climate change, and poorly 

managed forests. But the Forest Service currently lacks the resources necessary to mitigate any of these factors. 

I am a cosponsor of H.R. 167, the Wildfire Funding Disaster Act. 

Now, this is the budget fix that the Forest Service needs. I am 

open to discussing how H.R. 167 can fit with other policy proposals 

to address our forest needs, but first and foremost, we must fix the 

wildfire budget so the Forest Service can do the work that everyone 

on this Committee expects it to do. 

Again, Mr. Chairman, I thank you for holding today’s hearing, 

and I look forward to hearing from our witnesses. 

The CHAIRMAN. I thank the gentlelady, and I was not aware of 

the fact we were making history today together chairing this hearing, the first time in 10 years to address wildfires. Let’s just hope 

at the end of this hearing we have made history by identifying 

some good potential solutions to deal with the problem. 

The chair would request that other Members submit their opening statements for the record so the witnesses may begin their testimony, to ensure that there is ample time for questions. The chair 

would like to remind Members that they will be recognized for 

questioning in order of seniority for Members who were present at 

the start of the hearing. After that, Members will be recognized in 

order of their arrival. I appreciate the Members’ understanding. 

Witnesses are reminded to limit their oral presentations to 5 

minutes, and all written statements will be included in the record. 

Before I introduce our first panel, I would just ask that we all 

pause for a moment of silent prayer, remembering those brave heroes; those members of the United States Forest Service, our firefighters, who have lost their lives over the years, and particularly 

this last year. Amen. 

I am very pleased to welcome our first panel. Really, a gentleman that has been before this Committee a lot, and that is appreciated. Chief Tidwell, you are a great partner, and it is great 

to welcome you back again on an issue that I know is of significant 

concern to you, and something that you work diligently to try to 

come up with the right types of solutions. And we are looking forward to hearing some of that, so I am honored to welcome Mr. Tom 

Tidwell, Chief of the United States Forest Service. 

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Chief Tidwell, please begin when you are ready. 

STATEMENT OF THOMAS L. TIDWELL, CHIEF, U.S. FOREST 

SERVICE, U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, 

WASHINGTON, D.C. 

Chief TIDWELL. Mr. Chairman, Members of the Subcommittee, 

first of all, thank you for having the hearing, and also thank you 

for giving me the opportunity to present our thoughts about the 

2015 fire season, and also what we have, the task in front of us. 

As predicted, this fire season, being hotter, dryer, and on average, 78 days longer, coupled with historic 4 year drought in California, record low snow packs in Oregon and Washington, we had 

a historic fire season. At one time, we had 27,000 people out on 

fires. That is in addition to all the folks doing initial attack. We 

have never, ever had that level of resources out during any one fire 

season before. 

I will tell you, the men and women of the Forest Service, and all 

the Federal agencies, the state agencies, the county, local fire, our 

contractors, they just did an outstanding job, when I looked at 

what we were up against this year, and we all owe them a debt 

of gratitude for the work, the service that they provided. 

But once again, we had another tragic fire season. And I appreciate the recognition of the folks that we lost this year, not only the 

Forest Service, but other firefighters from other agencies. 

While we are going to continue to have large wildfires, we can 

change the consequences, we can change the level of fire severity, 

we can change the risk to our homes, to our firefighters, but we 

are going to need to act. 

So first of all, the things we are continuing to do, to have the resources to suppress fires. We continue this year, once again, 98, almost 99 percent of almost every fire we took initial attack on, we 

suppressed during initial attack. So we have the firefighters, we 

have the large air tankers that we need, we have the helicopters, 

we have the engines, and working together with all of our partners, 

we have really the best response in the world. It is a model for the 

rest of the world about how to suppress fires. 

The second part of it, we have to keep increasing the acres that 

we are treating to reduce the hazardous fuels. In 2014, 4.6 million 

acres, by far the most we have ever treated in a given year to reduce the threat and restore our National Forests. We have also increased timber harvest by 18 percent since 2008. We have also reduced our unit cost by 26 percent. And we are doing this through 

our long-term stewardship contracts or our collaborative forest 

landscape restoration projects, using our new authorities—thank 

you for the Farm Bill of 2014. We are doing this, at the same time 

there is 39 percent fewer Forest Service employees today than 

what we had 15 years ago. 

And we are making steady progress, but it is not enough. We 

have to fix the funding issue. There is just no question. I want to 

thank you for the CR for repaying the money that we had to transfer. That will make a significant difference to our communities, to 

the public, to be able to get that work back online. But we also 

have to stop the erosion of the rest of our programs that occurs 

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sion every year. Folks have seen our reports. In 1995, 16 percent 

of the Forest Service budget went into fire: 2015, it is 52 percent. 

We expect by 2025, it will be 67 percent. This has had a tremendous impact on our ability to carry out our mission to reduce fuels, 

but to also provide the recreational services, to have the road system, everything that the public relies on. So that is the second 

thing we have to address. 

Another couple of key points for you to think about. Since 2003 to 2015, the cost of fire suppression went up $740 million. Our 

budget didn’t go up $740 million. In addition, between Fiscal Year 

2015 and Fiscal Year 2017, with the last couple of fire seasons we 

have had, the 10 year average of cost for fires goes up another $239 

million. And that is going to continue. 

Without our budget being able to go up at the same rate, which 

is not possible in these economic times, we have to find a fix to be 

able to first stop the transfer, and I appreciate the work that you 

have done to be able to recognize that, but that is just part of the 

problem. We also have to stop how we are eroding the rest of the 

programs because of the increased cost of fires. 

And I wish I could change the situation we have on the landscape. I wish our fire seasons were shorter, I wish we had more 

precip, I wish it was cooler, but I can’t change that. The other thing 

I can’t change is that 50+ million acres that you referenced, Mr. 

Chairman, it is at high risk. There are a lot of homes out there. 

It is another big cost-driver for us. And I understand why people 

want to live out there. I want to live there. I understand that. That 

is not going to change. But the reality of it, it increases the cost 

of fire suppression. 

So we have to do a combination. Fix the fire-funding issue, stop 

the erosion of the rest of our programs, and at the same time, we 

have to expand the work that we are doing. In our Fiscal Year 

2016 budget, we had a proposal that would have significantly increased the amount of acres that we were treating, and including 

the amount of biomass, saw timber, that would come off of these 

lands. 

We can do this. And I really appreciate the work of this Committee. I want to thank you again for the 2014 Farm Bill. What 

you did there to add those additional authorities are going to really 

help us as we move forward. And I really appreciate the way you 

did that, because you did it in a way to give us additional authorities that maintain the public trust so that our collaboratives feel 

good about those authorities, and we can go out there and we are 

implementing that. In fact, we have 20 projects this year that are 

using those new authorities. 

So thank you very much, I appreciate letting me have an extra 

minute, and I look forward to your questions. 

[The prepared statement of Mr. Tidwell follows:] 

PREPARED STATEMENT OF THOMAS L. TIDWELL, CHIEF, U.S. FOREST SERVICE, U.S. 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, WASHINGTON, D.C. 

Mr. Chairman and Members of the Subcommittee, thank you for the opportunity 

to present the views of the Forest Service regarding the 2015 fire season and long 

term trends. Increasingly severe fire seasons are one of the greatest challenges facing the nation’s forests and 2015 was no exception. Fire now consumes greater than 

50 percent of the Forest Service budget and the agency needed to transfer funding 

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from non-fire accounts to cover the cost of fire suppression again this year. To reduce the threat of wildland fire, the Forest Service is accelerating restoration and 

management of the National Forests through innovative approaches and increased 

collaboration, though it is clear that more work needs to be done. 

We are at a critical moment in the history of the Forest Service. Urgent action 

is needed in order to address the program disruption and associated deterioration 

of capacity to effectively manage our National Forests caused by the continually increasing percentage of our budget that is dedicated to wildfire suppression activities. 

We remain willing and ready to work with Congress to improve our tools to better 

manage our forests, but the most important action Congress can make now in advancing the pace and scale of forest restoration is to fix the fire funding problem. 

Review of the 2015 Wildfire Season 

During this fire season, there were 24 days at National Preparedness Level 5— 

the highest level—meaning all available ground and air assets are committed to priority work. Severe drought across the West has increased fire severity in several 

states. Washington State among others, has recorded a record season of severe 

wildfires. Drought-ridden California has also experienced tremendous fire activity. 

The Forest Service, in coordination with our fire response partners, mobilized over 

27,000 firefighters along with numerous airtankers, helicopters, fire engines and 

other assets through our integrated, interagency suppression efforts. Every state, 

Puerto Rico, and the Pacific Islands, along with the military and international support, has provided people and equipment this season to help manage over 50,000 

wildfires. 

In total, over 9 million acres burned across the United States including over 5 

million acres in Alaska. These fires destroyed over 2,500 single residences; however, 

the greatest losses involved the fatalities of 13 wildland firefighters who made the 

ultimate sacrifice to protect the lives of others. Our thoughts and prayers will forever be with their family and friends. 

This year, fire funding represents 52% ($2.159 billion) of the agency’s budget. Between last fiscal year and this year, for example, the suppression budget, using a 

rolling 10 year average, grew by $115 million and non-fire programs were reduced 

by that amount, requiring the agency to forego opportunities to complete vital restoration work and meet public expectations for other services the agency provides 

such as outdoor recreation, facility maintenance, research and more. 

On Aug. 13th, the Forest Service projected that the agency would not have sufficient suppression funds to last through the end of the fiscal year. The only option 

available was to use the agency’s transfer authority. The agency developed a strategy to transfer up to $450 million from current year discretionary and permanent 

and trust balances. Upon implementation of the transfer strategy, it was determined that $450 million was insufficient to cover the suppression costs to the end 

of the fiscal year. Therefore, the Forest Service identified an additional $250 million 

to transfer from discretionary and permanent and trust fund balances to pay for 

suppression costs through the end of September. This year’s transfer strategy has 

canceled or postponed several projects including critical bridge inspections, road repairs, prescribed burns and other restoration projects. In total, the Forest Service 

spent approximately $1.7 billion on fire suppression in Fiscal Year 2015 (FY 2015). 

At the height of the season, the cost of wildland fire suppression was as much as 

$243 million in a week. 

Long-Term Fire Trends and Budget Issues 

The Forest Service’s fire budget is based on the 10 year average cost of fire suppression. When fighting fires in a given year costs more than Congress appropriates 

(as was the case in FY 2015), the agency is forced to transfer additional funds from 

already depleted non-fire programs. Fiscal Year 2015 marked the eighth time since 

FY 2002 the Forest Service needed to transfer funds to pay for fire suppression. 

These transfers are highly disruptive to the planning and execution of numerous 

programs. When funding is transferred from other programs to support fire suppression operations, these programs are unable to accomplish priority work and achieve 

the overall mission of the agency. The ability of programs to achieve established targets are impacted as projects are often put on hold or canceled. 

The problem of fire transfer comes on top of an underlying budget shift. Over the 

past 2 decades, fires have increased in severity, intensity and cost as fire seasons 

have lasted more than 70 days longer, drought and increased temperatures contribute to dangerous conditions, and as more people have moved into fire-prone 

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1http://www.fs.fed.us/about-agency/budget-performance/cost-fire-operations. 

age. As documented in a recently released report,1 the cost of fire suppression has 

soared in the past 20 years and is having a debilitating impact on the Forest Service 

budget and non-suppression activities. In 1995, fire made up 16 percent of the Forest Service’s annual appropriated budget—this year, for the first time ever, more 

than 50 percent of the budget will be dedicated to fire. Along with this shift in resources, there has been a corresponding shift in staff, with a 39 percent reduction 

in all non-fire personnel. Left unchecked, the share of the budget devoted to fire in 

2025 could exceed 67 percent. 

Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Wildland Fire Cost Consumes Forest 

Service Budget 

This dramatic shift in funding and personnel to fire programs and away from nonfire programs has significant impacts on the ground. These impacts matter for communities across the country, east to west—not just to the communities most impacted by fire. For example: 

• In FY 2013 and FY 2014, twenty-one facilities projects were deferred to future 

years, including sewer system repairs, air tanker base repairs, water system improvements, dam repairs and wastewater system rehabilitation. 

• Three-quarters of Forest Service trails are not being maintained to standard, 

with a range of negative effects; the trails backlog was valued at $314 million 

in 2012—with other recreation infrastructure needs, the backlog puts small 

businesses and communities that depend on recreation jobs and dollars at risk. 

• Funding for the Vegetation and Watershed Management program has declined 

by 24 from FY 2001 to FY 2015 impacting the ability to support resource restoration projects on the Nation Forest System (NFS). 

• Other programs, like research and state and private partnerships, are also impacted. 

We are again proposing a revised funding strategy for wildfire suppression. The 

FY 2016 President’s Budget proposes discretionary funding for suppression at a 

level represented by 70 percent of the 10 year average of fire suppression costs. This 

level of funding provides for suppression of 98 percent of the fires we fight. In addition, up to $855 million for the Forest Service, and $200 million for the Department 

of the Interior, would be made available under a disaster funding cap adjustment 


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to meet funding needs for fire suppression above the base appropriation. This strategy would provide increased certainty in addressing growing needs for fire suppression funding while better protecting non-suppression programs from funding transfers that diminish their effectiveness. Moreover, it would allow us to stabilize the 

pace and scale of our investments in restoring forested landscapes, helping forests 

adapt to the growing effects of climate change, and better prepare communities in 

the wildland/urban interface for future wildfires. 

Increasing the Pace and Scale of Restoration 

Fire plays a beneficial role in maintaining the ecological stability of many landscapes, and the Forest Service is working with partners to restore healthy, resilient, 

fire-adapted ecosystems. Our goal, especially near homes and communities, is to 

prepare forests and grasslands to resist stresses such as drought and recover from 

disturbances, including wildfires. Our large-scale restoration projects are designed 

in part to restore fire-adapted forest types across large landscapes, including the reintroduction of periodic wildland fire where safe and effective. 

The capacity to increase the pace and scale of landscape restoration can, over 

time, begin to check the growth of both wildfire cost and share of the Forest Service 

budget. The Forest Service, together with diverse partners, is making a difference 

through implementation of the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program, Watershed Condition Framework, Integrated Resource Restoration pilot 

projects, Western Bark Beetle Strategy, finalization of the 2012 forest planning rule, 

efficiency improvements for the National Environmental Policy Act and timber and 

stewardship contract processing, prescribed burns and managed wildfire, and market support programs for forest products. 

The Forest Service has increased the impact and rate of restoration nationally. 

In 2014, the agency accomplished treatments on 4.6 million acres to restore watershed function on NFS land and to reduce the threat of fire in the wildland-urban 

interface on NFS and state and private lands. This represents an increase of nearly 

400,000 acres (nine percent) compared to 2011 accomplishments despite mounting 

challenges such as record droughts, longer and drier wildfire seasons, a reduction 

in non-fire personnel to support the agency’s mission, and a rapidly increasing percentage of the budget being spent on wildland fire management. 

We have achieved efficiencies by investing in collaborative approaches to forest 

restoration across the country as a way to develop better projects, to work across 

larger landscapes, to build public support for forest restoration and management, 

and to reduce the risk from litigation. Dozens of collaboratives across the country 

are enabling the Forest Service and our partners to get more work done. These 

collaboratives are locally led groups from local communities, environmental groups, 

forest industry, and others and are designing projects that address forest restoration, supply wood to local mills, conserve watersheds and provide a range of other 

benefits. 

In addition, the 2014 Farm Bill expanded current authorities and provided several 

new authorities to increase the pace and scale of restoration including: 

Forest Restoration through Stewardship Contracting 

The farm bill provided permanent authority for stewardship contracting. Stewardship contracts help the Forest Service achieve land and natural resource management goals by funding forest health and restoration projects, stream restoration, 

hazardous fuel removal, and recreation improvements. In many areas, stewardship 

contracting will allow the agency to build larger projects, treating more acres, with 

broader public support. Since 2008, acres treated through stewardship contracts and 

agreements have nearly tripled. 

We are also working to improve the efficiency of planning timber sales and stewardship contracts. In 2014, we exceeded our targets by producing 2.8 billion board 

feet of timber. Our timber harvest has increased 14 percent since 2008. The agency 

is achieving these results despite the fact that since 1998, NFS staff was reduced 

by well over 1⁄3. If the President’s FY 2016 budget proposal were in place this year, approximately $300 million would be available for non-fire programs. Forest Service 

is estimating that would equate to 1 million additional acres treated and an increase of 300 million board feet. 

Forest Restoration through Expanded Insect and Disease Designations 

The 2014 Farm Bill also added authority to the Healthy Forest Restoration Act 

to authorize designation of insect and disease treatment areas and provided categorical exclusions (CEs) for insect and disease projects on areas as large as 3,000 acres. 

The Forest Service received letters from 36 states requesting designations under the 

insect and disease provisions. In response, we designated approximately 46.7 million 

acres of National Forest System lands. Currently, 20 projects have been proposed 

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under the provision; the Forest Service intends to use the CE provision for 16 of 

the projects and streamlined Environmental Assessments for the remaining four. 

The initial 16 projects will help the agency and its partners better understand and 

implement the new CE authority while additional projects are proposed, planned, 

and authorized. The Forest Service will expand planning and implementation of 

projects within designated areas in FY 2016 and beyond. 

Forest Restoration through Projects under the Good Neighbor Authority 

The Forest Service completed the requirements under the Paperwork Reduction 

Act to move forward with developing the new Good Neighbor Agreement templates 

necessary to carry out projects with the states. The Forest Service worked closely 

with states to collaboratively develop the new templates, which were approved by 

the Office of Management and Budget on June 24, 2015. Since then, the agency has 

entered into agreements with Pennsylvania, Utah, and Wisconsin to carry out forest, rangeland and watershed health activities on the National Forests in those 

states. 

On many of our National Forests, Burned Area Emergency Response, or BAER 

teams, are at work using their authorities to stabilize riverbanks and watersheds 

to prevent flooding and protect water supplies as a result of this year’s fire activity. 

But that’s not enough. Land managers lack the necessary funding to assist with the 

repair of thousands of miles of fire-damaged roads, to quickly remove the hazard 

trees that line those roads, and to restore trail-heads and campgrounds critical to 

rural recreation businesses. 

We remain interested in ideas that will help us pursue treatment at the landscape 

scale quickly, efficiently, and in a reasonable time to address problems before they 

can worsen. As a general matter, the Forest Service welcomes legislation that 

incentivizes collaboration and expands the toolset we can use to complete critical 

work on our nation’s forests, without overriding environmental laws, mandating 

harvest levels, or requiring new layers of zoning on the NFS. 

Conclusion 

The frequency and intensity of wildfire, the rising cost of resources needed to deploy for emergency response against the spread of wildfire, and the way that fire 

suppression is paid for all combine to constrain the agency’s capacity to realize additional gains in land management and restoration through efficiencies and partnerships. Although the Forest Service has, in recent years, made great strides in the 

pursuit of efficiencies—we are treating more acres with fewer people, there is a limit 

to what the agency can achieve going forward unless Congress solves the wildfire 

budget challenge we face. We are at a critical moment in the history of the Forest 

Service. Urgent action is needed in order to ensure that that Forest Service does 

not become further hindered by the continually increasing percentage of our budget 

that is dedicated to wildfire suppression activities. The most important action Congress can make now in advancing the pace and scale of forest restoration is to fix 

the fire funding problem. 

The CHAIRMAN. Thank you very much. It is helpful if you turn 

that on. 

The request that you made, and what many of our Members outside of this Subcommittee, and certainly outside the Agriculture 

Committee, don’t realize is if the Forest Service, if we allow them 

to do their job, you are a revenue producer. We don’t need to be 

looking for other parts of the government for funding if we are getting the barriers out of your way. With the value of saw log timber 

alone, you look at the variance from where we were at the peak 

of harvesting in the 1990s, late 1980s, and today, it is a 10 billion 

board feet difference, and look at the value of that. I think that is 

why I am excited about this hearing and the solutions that we are 

going to talk about today. 

My first question for you, Chief, is how has litigation affected the 

Forest Service’s active forest management? Has it had an impact? 

Chief TIDWELL. Well, this year, we had, out of 316 projects that 

would have resulted in saw timber and biomass, we had 16 of those 

litigated. So there will be a slowdown of those 16 projects. 

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The biggest impact for this year was no bids. We had over 50 of 

our sales that we received no bids on. Our folks had to go back, 

repackage those to be able to find a way in these very difficult markets to be able to move forward. But as I look at—and we are probably going to be at 97 percent of our target again this year, with 

the tremendous work that we did. As I looked at the big change 

this year, it was no bids. It is something we are going to have to 

address, be able to find some different ways to be able to move forward so that we can get folks out in the woods to be able to remove 

the saw timber, the biomass. 

The CHAIRMAN. Following up on that, because I agree, I mean 

when it comes to healthy forests, and I like to say then wealthy 

rural communities, or more wealthy rural communities, it is not 

just about looking at the barriers that we know we are dealing 

with, primarily probably in this hearing, but it is the market for 

our timber that helps to drive the active management, and it is the 

value of the timber. I know you have a lot of great people working 

under your leadership on the research side, the laboratory side. I 

am blessed in North Warren to have amazing scientists up there 

that are—and I have been down to the southeastern Pennsylvania, 

just a lot of good people. Of your team, what kind of things are we 

looking at in terms of influencing market and value? 

Chief TIDWELL. Well, we have our research scientists to continue 

to do work to be able to find ways to increase using green building 

materials; wood, in buildings. Secretary Vilsack, he put out the 

competition to get a couple of companies to actually demonstrate 

how we can use wood in commercial buildings. So we are moving 

forward with that to be able to show that we can use wood to go 

maybe eight, ten, maybe even twelve stories, to be able to expand 

the markets. We also want to encourage more wood in buildings. 

It is a green building material. It takes less energy than steel and 

concrete. And we need to find more markets for the wood that 

needs to be removed, the small diameter material. Our wood—our 

Forest Products Lab developed a product called the cross-laminated 

timber. It is stronger than natural wood, it is more heat-resistant, 

and it is the tool that we will be able to use to use in these tall 

commercial buildings. 

We also need to look at ways to make it economically viable to 

use biomass for energy production, to be able to remove that small 

diameter material, along with all the saw logs. We are also working to maintain the pellet industry in the Southeast. It is being 

challenged that it is not sustainable. So our scientists are working 

to be able to show that, yes, that is also a sustainable forestry 

practice, so that we can maintain those markets. 

So those are the thing that we are going to continue to work on. 

But it is essential that we be able to expand our current markets 

and look for new markets to be able to use the amount of biomass 

that needs to come off of not only the National Forests, but we also 

need to maintain our private-land forests. And I will tell you, without the markets, those are the forests that are probably even most 

at risk. 

The CHAIRMAN. Well, thank you, Chief. I am pleased to report I 

had a conversation with United States Trade Ambassador 

Froman—— 

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Chief TIDWELL. Yes. 

The CHAIRMAN.—this past week, and obviously, my conversations 

have been about where—with the TPP there was just some recent 

announcements on, where were we in terms of forest products, 

from saw logs to those that have been cut, the furniture, pellets, 

and it was just good news. Currently today, there are like $800 

million in tariffs that really hinder our ability to export what we 

are harvesting off our forests, and get made into something. We 

harvest it here, and we sell it there. Specifically, obviously, in the 

Asian countries with the TPP. And that was good news. Those are 

eliminated, at least with this current TPP proposal, and that 

speaks well for future markets. 

I am pleased to recognize the Ranking Member for 5 minutes of 

questioning. 

Ms. LUJAN GRISHAM. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And welcome, 

Chief Tidwell. 

I really want to just continue and, to the highest degree of maybe 

having some more specificity, that the Chairman has initiated with 

you. 

So we know that we have an insufficient budget, even if we 

weren’t borrowing. 

The CHAIRMAN. Thanks to you too. 

Ms. LUJAN GRISHAM. You are very welcome. 

So we know that if you weren’t borrowing, we have an insufficient budget, because you mentioned that we have an incredible increased cost to deal with the fire suppression issues. So a stagnant 

budget isn’t going to get us there. That, while we have an opportunity to have a resource-driven environment by taking fuel out of 

the forests, marketing those products, we have limitations with the 

current economy, our ability to engage in a global economy, that we 

don’t have the infrastructure for in many places. Given the economic conditions in my state, we have lost workers that we would 

have to have investments to even replace those, which I would really encourage you to think about getting done in my state. 

So what are some specific approaches to front-loading the budget, 

having reliability and predictability about that budget, about 

spending enough time and energy to both reduce costs by knowing 

how you might do that more effectively, and control those costs, 

and then to create opportunities for a resource-driven investment 

right back into forest management and wildfire suppression? Can 

you give me some more specifics about how we might create an 

agenda that this Committee could launch in this Congress? 

Chief TIDWELL. Well, it goes back to my opening comments about 

fixing our budget situation with fire suppression. I appreciate the 

recognition and support to stop the transfer, that very disruptive 

practice that, almost every year now, impacts our operations in August and September. And I cannot thank you enough for the $700 

million in the continuing resolution, the additional money to pay 

back. But we lose a big part of the field season, and we have lost 

that forever. And so, yes, we will be able to continue to bring those 

projects back on-line, but we lost a field season. There are a lot of 

inefficiencies. The—— 

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Ms. LUJAN GRISHAM. In fact, we spend more money in addition 

to the increased cost for fire suppression because of this sort of revolving borrowing environment that we—— 

Chief TIDWELL. We do. It not only slows down the work, but just 

imagine the disruption that occurs when we have to contact all of 

our offices to find out, okay, which projects can we postpone, which 

things are available, get them to stop their regular work and be 

able to work on just gathering up all this information and send it 

back to Washington, we make the choices about—and I tell you, we 

go to great lengths to minimize the impacts of having to transfer 

money, but there is no question there are significant impacts. So 

that is part of it. 

The second part of it, when it comes to the way that we budget 

for annual suppression is using the 10 year rolling average. And 

as I mentioned before, since 2003 it has gone up $740 million. Between 2015 and 2017, it will go up another $239 million. And so 

under a constrained budget, all that—that money has to come from 

all the other programs, and many of those are the programs that 

we use to restore our forests, to provide the services that the public 

demands. So we need—— 

Ms. LUJAN GRISHAM. To mitigate fires. 

Chief TIDWELL. Yes. So we need an approach that does both; 

stops the transfer, and then finds a way that we don’t have to 

erode our programs. And that is one of the things why we were 

supportive of this idea of taking one or two percent of these very 

large fires, the ones that threaten our communities, and funding 

those like we fund a natural disaster. And so that the 98 percent, 

99 percent of all fires would still be covered under the Forest Service’s budget, but it is that one to maybe two percent that, I will tell 

you from my personal view, when I look at these fires, when I see 

the pictures, when I talk to our firefighters, they are a natural disaster in every sense of the word. When I look at the devastation 

from tornadoes and hurricanes, and I see what happens with these 

few wildfires, they just need to be considered a natural disaster. 

And then if those could be funded under the proposed or under a 

cap adjustment, the way we fund other natural disasters, that 

would eliminate this growth of our 10 year average, allow us to 

continue to budget for 98, 99 percent of the fires, and then the 

other key part of it is that free-up about $300 million in our budget 

constraint. And that would give the flexibility for us to be 

proactive, to do more timber harvest, to do more hazardous fuels, 

to restore more watersheds, and we can actually get ahead of this. 

But we are making very good progress, and I am very proud of 

what our folks are doing, what they are accomplishing with all the 

challenges that they have. But we need to accelerate this. We need 

to be in a different place so that 10 years from now that we can 

look back and say, because of the decisions we made this year, we 

made a change. Ten years from now, we can change the fire regimes, we can reduce the threat, but it is going to take increasing 

our pace and scale. So we need to fix the budget. 

The second part of it, the toolkit that we have that was expanded 

with the 2014 Farm Bill, the good neighbor authority, to be able 

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ful tools that our folks are going to work with it. Our collaboratives 

find those very supportive. They want to expand on that. But I 

need to really stress, when we are talking about using categorical 

exclusions, it is a good tool for small projects, but we have to be 

thinking much larger: 3,000 acres of the farm bill, great CE, but 

we need to be looking at hundreds of thousands of acres at a time. 

The work that we have done in Arizona, the work that we have 

done up in the Black Hills in South Dakota, the work that we’re 

doing in eastern Oregon, eastern Washington, I can go on and on. 

We need to be looking at areas like 100,000, 200,000 acres at a 

time, and that is the work that needs to be done. So the CE authorities are very helpful. It gives us that opportunity to do that 

short-term very, very, most urgent work, and at the same time for 

us to be able to look at these larger landscapes. 

Ms. LUJAN GRISHAM. Thank you. I am way over time. I am very 

grateful for that thoughtful answer, and for the Chairman’s support. Thank you. 

The CHAIRMAN. The gentlelady’s time has expired. 

The gentleman from Illinois, Mr. Bost. 

Mr. BOST. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And thank you, Chief. 

I have a couple of quick questions, if I can. And all politics, I 

guess, is local, but this is a national issue, but I live right on the 

edge of one of our smallest forests, the Shawnee. 

Chief TIDWELL. Yes. 

Mr. BOST. And I have some specific concerns there to find out 

what is being done as far as fire suppression. I know that the 

Shawnee is one of the few forests that we don’t allow recreational 

off-road vehicle use, for whatever reason. Does that stop the ability, 

when a fire breaks out, the ability to access our—when we look at 

the other forests around the nation, I am a little worried because 

we haven’t had a forest fire in Shawnee for some time, but if something does break out, would that—— 

Chief TIDWELL. No, it would not. 

Mr. BOST. Okay. 

Chief TIDWELL. When we have a fire breakout, we take whatever 

steps are necessary to deal with that, and if that means that is 

using off-road vehicles to be able to get firefighters to that, if it 

means bringing in bulldozers, helicopters, whatever it takes, we 

will do that. 

Mr. BOST. I know that the—— 

Chief TIDWELL. It is one of the—— 

Mr. BOST.—the argument is—— 

Chief TIDWELL.—things that—— 

Mr. BOST.—many people in the community believe that we 

should have that access, for hunting and everything else. I was just 

wondering as far as trails and things like that whether it would 

be—I know you would want—you would get there, I understand 

that—— 

Chief TIDWELL. Yes, we are—and on that issue, that is something 

that needs working through the local communities to be able to 

find the right mix of uses out there. And there is a lot of competition for—especially on your forest, people want to get out there for 

the recreation, and to be able to find that right mix. I also know 

there is a lot of equestrian activity, which is great country for folks 

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to be able to go out and ride and stuff. And so those are issues that 

the local forest, working with the communities, they need to come 

to agreement to find that right balance of those uses. But when it 

comes to fire suppression, we are going to do what we need to do, 

and that is one of the reasons why we have such a high success 

rate. 

Mr. BOST. That is going to lead me to my other question when 

you start talking about locals, because being born and raised there 

all my life, and I have watched certain things occur, and I trust 

you and the Forest Service to be very wise in properly managing 

the forest; one, to protect it from fire, and two, to use it in the best 

possible way. I know that we have had our local community, some 

that were pass-through of our community, that have protested any 

time that you have tried to do select or clear-cutting to make the 

forest more viable, make it safer. Are you still dealing with that 

type of problem, or do you have that problem everywhere else in 

the United States, or is it just locally that we have that great problem? 

Chief TIDWELL. That used to be a major problem for us across 

the country years ago, but that has changed—— 

Mr. BOST. Okay. 

Chief TIDWELL.—because we have been able to bring the science 

to the communities to be able to show the work that we are proposing to do on the National Forests is what is necessary to maintain the forest health, the forest resiliency, and that is what drives 

our work. It is driven by what the land needs, to be able to provide 

that full mix of benefits. 

When the public understands that, it is a lot easier for them to 

come together and to say, ‘‘Okay, we understand why you need to 

do this, now let’s talk about how and where and the timing of it.’’ 

That is a lot easier discussion to have. But we have made great 

headway. I mean today, you think about it, we have many conservation groups and environmental groups that work with us on 

our collaboratives, that even stand up with us when we get sued 

in front of a judge, saying that, ‘‘Yes, this project needs to go forward, this timber sale needs to go forward.’’ That is how things 

have changed because of our collaborative work, and helping folks 

to understand we are doing what the land needs to be able to 

maintain the forest health, and yes, biomass needs to be removed. 

And if we can do it as saw timber and help cover the cost, that is 

a better way for all of us. The public benefits, everyone benefits. 

It also creates a tremendous number of jobs. And we need the industry. We need the jobs; we need the folks that do the work. So 

they have to make money, we want them to make money, and we 

want to be able to do more of it so we can expand those jobs. 

Mr. BOST. Thank you. And, Mr. Chairman, I yield back. 

The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman yields back. 

I am pleased to recognize the gentlelady from Washington State, 

Ms. DelBene, for 5 minutes. 

Ms. DELBENE. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. And, Chief Tidwell, 

thank you so much for being here. I am very, very pleased that the 

Subcommittee called this hearing. It is long overdue. This is the 

first hearing solely on wildfires that the Agriculture Committee has 

held since 2003, and as it happens, I was working on a bipartisan 

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letter with broad support, requesting a hearing on this very issue, 

when eventually we heard that a hearing was being called. 

This is one of the most crucial issues for my district, for my 

state, the State of Washington, and for many others. In fact, our 

region, as you know, has been severely impacted, and dedicated 

firefighters lost their lives. So it deserves our utmost attention. 

I spoke to folks at the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, 

and I wanted to give you an idea of some of the local impacts that 

fire funding has had. Dollars taken from non-fire programs put in 

jeopardy the very programs that reduce the threat of catastrophic 

fires, protect communities, and deliver a multitude of other benefits. This includes such initiatives as restoration work that would 

help prevent catastrophic fires, protecting watersheds and cultural 

resources, and providing the infrastructure and programming that 

supports thousands of recreation jobs and economic growth in rural 

communities. 

The largest initial transfers of funds to fire operations will come 

from the restoration fire salvage operations, grants to states, and 

upkeep of recreation facilities. The Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National 

Forest has been impacted by fire borrowing, funds scheduled to 

support forest road maintenance, aquatic organism passages for 

fish and other species, as well as recreation issues such as trail 

maintenance and sanitization projects, have been delayed or deferred. 

And so when we hear that feedback right in our region, I was 

wondering, Chief Tidwell, are you seeing those same impacts across 

the country with wildfire funding draining other accounts across 

the Forest Service? 

Chief TIDWELL. Yes, and last year we put out a report on the fire 

impacts from Fiscal Year 2012 and Fiscal Year 2013. We will be 

pulling together that information again from the impacts of this 

fire season. And the thing that is so important to understand is, 

once again, we do go to great lengths to minimize the impact as 

much as we possibly can. However, just think about the roadwork. 

When we are not able to do the road maintenance that is needed, 

like when we are late in the field season, that is when we get impacts to the roads because, when it does rain, we do get snow, we 

get run-off, then we have impacts to those roads, and so it is a 

much greater cost because we weren’t able to get out there and 

clear out the culverts before the wintertime. 

This is just one example of how disruptive this practice is, and 

no one is to blame. I am not putting any blame on anyone, it is 

just the system that we have had in place for budgeting, it doesn’t 

work anymore. And so these are the things that—the accumulation 

of these impacts is incredible. When I think about having to move 

$700 million versus how much work we can get done with $700 million, it is tremendously significant, and we will be pulling together 

a list of more of the impacts to help folks really understand. But 

once again, with the proposal that came out of the last year’s Congress with the Wildfire Disaster Funding Act, the Congressional 

Budget Office score is neutral. It doesn’t create any more costs, it 

just stops this disruptive practice, and at the same time it provides 

less of an impact to the 10 year average on the rest of our programs. 

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So there are some options there for us to be able to move forward 

and address this, but it is going to take both to stop the transfer, 

and we have to find a way to stop the erosion of the rest of the 

programs. Those are the things that we want to continue to work 

with this Committee to be able to find those solutions. 

Ms. DELBENE. And I also want to point out that outdoor recreation as an industry is a huge economic driver in our state, and 

making sure access roads are available has a huge impact on many 

businesses and jobs in our region as well. 

You mentioned the Wildfire Disaster Funding Act, does the Administration support that—— 

Chief TIDWELL. Yes. 

Ms. DELBENE.—and, if so, why? 

Chief TIDWELL. The Administration supports it because it addresses both parts of the fire suppression issue; the transfer and 

then it slows down the growth of the 10 year average, and it also 

provides $300 million, or $400—excuse me, $400 million of flexibility under budget constraint for us to be able then to request additional funds to be proactive on these issues. 

Ms. DELBENE. Thank you. Mr. Chairman, my time has expired, 

but I wanted to ask for unanimous consent to submit to the record 

the USDA report, The Rising Cost of Fire Operations: Effects on the 

Forest Service’s Non-Fire Work. 

The CHAIRMAN. Without objection. 

[The information referred to is located on p. 73.] 

Ms. DELBENE. Thank you so much—— 

The CHAIRMAN. Thank you. 

Ms. DELBENE.—and I yield back. Thank you. 

The CHAIRMAN. I am pleased to recognize Mr. Benishek, from 

Michigan, for 5 minutes of questioning. 

Mr. BENISHEK. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Hi, good to have you 

here, Chief Tidwell. 

A couple of things that came up earlier, and I hope I didn’t miss 

some questions on this, but you talked about the no-bid issue—— 

Chief TIDWELL. Yes. 

Mr. BENISHEK.—and from talking to the people that I talked to 

about harvesting in the forest, it is not about the market so much, 

it is about the procedure for getting a bid done in the Forest Service, and it is difficult for loggers to bid in the Federal forests because of the way the rules are. I mean the size of the cut—— 

Chief TIDWELL. Yes. 

Mr. BENISHEK.—the lengthy process, the lawsuits, that is the 

issue, not so much the market. You made it sound like it was the 

market. Well, believe me, we have a lot of mills in my district that 

need timber, but they have kind of given up on going to the Forest 

Service to get wood because it is too onerous. 

I understand the funding issue. We need to fix this fire-funding 

issue. 

Chief TIDWELL. Yes. 

Mr. BENISHEK. I mean that is going to be our responsibility to 

do that. I will get into that a little bit more later, but, the procedures—and this is one of the reasons why we have had this problem over the past 20 years. It has been more and more difficult to 

harvest out of the forest, and that is why we are in the situation 

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we are now with the fires. So what can you do to streamline—what 

should we do to streamline the process of getting the timber out 

of the forests? 

Chief TIDWELL. Well, you are fortunate in your part of the country there is still a fairly strong market. And we didn’t have any— 

I don’t think we had any no-bids from your part of the country. It 

came from other parts of the country. But we are constantly looking at how to improve our processes. That is one of the reasons we 

have been able to reduce our unit costs on our timber sales by 26 

percent over the last few years. 

The other thing that we are looking at is making it easier for 

folks to not only bid, and to make sure that we are putting out offers of what they need. Part of the problem we had this time was 

some of the projects were too large, and our contractors and our 

purchasers, they weren’t interested in that so we had to repackage 

it. So we have to do a better job to make sure that we are in sync 

with not only the market, but also what the purchasers—— 

Mr. BENISHEK. What—— 

Chief TIDWELL.—need as far as the size of the—— 

Mr. BENISHEK. What percentage of—— 

Chief TIDWELL.—sale. 

Mr. BENISHEK.—the sales are stopped by lawsuits? 

Chief TIDWELL. Well, this year, out of 311, there were 16 projects 

that were litigated this year and slowed down this year, and so 

that will have an impact on—— 

Mr. BENISHEK. You are saying only 16 projects—— 

Chief TIDWELL.—on the—— 

Mr. BENISHEK.—through the country were shut down by—— 

Chief TIDWELL. Sixteen out of the 311. These are projects for timber sales, stewardship, contracting projects. 

Mr. BENISHEK. All right, let me ask another question about this 

disaster harvesting. 

Chief TIDWELL. Yes. 

Mr. BENISHEK. After Katrina, apparently, the Forest Service was 

able, in 60 days, to get the necessary permitting done to get the 

timber that was damaged by the hurricane ready to go. But now, 

apparently, that is not possible with a fire disaster. My information 

says, like over a year even to get that consideration, and then it 

is to the point where the wood is no good. So what can be done 

there to make an easier process to at least salvage some of the 

money that is laying on the ground, or potentially, to help you out? 

What can we do there? 

Chief TIDWELL. Well, the reasons we were so successful with 

Katrina was a couple of things. We did salvage close to 300 million 

board feet over a very large area; several states, and we were able 

to use our categorical exclusions to be able to cover those projects. 

I think it took a little bit longer than what you said, but we were 

very quick to be able to move that. The reason we were able to do 

that was, first of all, there was the public trust because it was very 

clear we needed to do this for public safety and for forest health, 

to be able to prevent—— 

Mr. BENISHEK. Doesn’t that same statement—— 

Chief TIDWELL.—a large—— 

Mr. BENISHEK.—hold true in a fire situation? 

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Chief TIDWELL. Well, we have it in many places. The other thing 

we did in Katrina, we didn’t spend a lot of time arguing about getting every single stick, every log out of there. Quickly, we said this 

is what we are going after. The areas of concern, like in riparian 

areas, we are just leaving that alone. Everybody was okay with 

that. So we didn’t spend all those days having those discussions. 

And then the other thing that is so important, we had the staff. 

Katrina was 10 years ago? We had a lot more people, we had a lot 

more foresters out there. Today, we have 49 percent fewer foresters 

today than what we had in 2000. So we had the people that could 

quickly move. 

Now, if you look at what we did last year in California, or the 

year before, following the Rim Fire, we went after 300 million 

acres—— 

Mr. BENISHEK. Well, why—— 

Chief TIDWELL.—on one fire. 

Mr. BENISHEK.—why can’t you use the categorical exclusion for 

fires? 

Chief TIDWELL. Well, with the Rim Fire, we looked at treating a 

much larger area. So instead of removing 300 million board feet 

over several states, over multiple forests, we went for 300 million 

off of one forest, off of that one fire. We were able to move the roadside salvage rather quickly, and then we did the larger project that 

also included the restoration work, and we were able to get it done 

in a year, and then we struggled to be able to get anybody to take 

the material. And the reason for that is that the mills in that vicinity, they have a lot of private timberland. It burned too, and so 

there was just no market. They needed to remove their saw timber, 

which they did, but then there is all this additional saw timber. 

And if we were able to have moved that to a different part of the 

country, somehow had a transportation subsidy, or somehow to be 

able to move it to a different mill, we would have been able to sell 

more of it. But that has been the struggle. And so you get these 

big fires in one location, it just saturates the market. And we don’t 

have the ability to be able to move that material to different parts, 

even to the West, and we would have been able to find a buyer for 

the rest of it. We are still working to try to get more of it done. 

But the difference is that, on these large-scale projects, when you 

are looking at 100,000, 200,000 acre restoration project, you need 

to take the time to involve the community, local officials, to be able 

to determine what needs to be done. And yes, it takes some time, 

but we were able to get that project done in a year, to be able to 

complete the EIS, but at the same time, without a stronger market, 

it is difficult for us, in that case, very difficult to be able to move 

the material. 

Mr. BENISHEK. So is there a minimum price you have to ask for 

the timber? 

Chief TIDWELL. There is. There is a minimum price, and part of 

what we are looking at—we also have a system where we appraise 

the material. And so that is—— 

Mr. BENISHEK. Okay, well, that doesn’t seem to—— 

Chief TIDWELL. You base—— 

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Mr. BENISHEK.—you have to understand it is a fire sale. You are 

not going to get the same price going in the woods after a fire than 

you are going to get out of raw timber. I mean, come on. 

Chief TIDWELL. Yes. 

Mr. BENISHEK. I mean it is a lot more work, it is more dangerous 

there is a lot of stuff going on. 

The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman’s time has expired. 

Mr. BENISHEK. I am sorry. 

The CHAIRMAN. That is all right. Good questions. Good discussion. 

I am pleased to recognize for 5 minutes of questioning the 

gentlelady from Arizona, Mrs. Kirkpatrick. 

Mrs. KIRKPATRICK. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, Ranking Member, 

and my colleague from Washington, for having this hearing. 

Chief Tidwell, I also want to thank you and your office for being 

so responsive and accessible to me about these forest issues. And 

I want to thank the Secretary and you for your support of the Four 

Forest Restoration project, which is a very collaborative, innovative 

forest health timber industry type of model that we believe can be 

used nationwide. But as you know from our discussions, I am very 

practical. I grew up in a timber community. We lost a generation 

of loggers and lumber mills and all of that knowledge, and trying 

to bring it back has been a little more difficult than we expected 

it to be because we just lost that knowledge. And I have always 

wanted to see those logging trucks back on the highway, and I saw 

them this summer. Not as many as I wish. 

I want to talk with you. I have been back in the forests on those 

roads and I have really seen a disintegration of the roads. And that 

is harming some of the logging companies to be able to get back 

into that forest and harvest those logs. And so do you have a budget specifically for roads? I am just trying to get an idea of what it 

would take from a very practical standpoint to bring those roads 

up to a standard where our trucks can get in there and harvest the 

wood. 

Chief TIDWELL. We do have a budget line item for road maintenance. It is another one of the budget line items that has been significantly impacted over the years because of the cost of fires. And 

in the past, years, decades ago when the saw timber had a much 

higher value than it does today, it was able to cover a lot of the 

maintenance costs on those roads. But with the saw timber and the 

biomass that needs to be removed today, it is a part of the problem 

we have with our appraisal system. The market isn’t strong enough 

to be able to cover the costs of that road maintenance work, plus 

to remove the timber. So it is one of the things we have had to look 

at to take out those costs to maintain the road. The problem with 

that is, after you put the log trucks across the road, they are going 

to impact those gravel roads, and if we aren’t maintaining it, the 

next year, the public can’t get in there either. Short-term it works 

for a year or 2, but long-term, we have to find a system so that 

we can maintain the road system for the public access, but at the 

same time to be able to access it for logging and biomass removal. 

So that is a good example of what has happened over time to our 

budget, is the loss of our road funding that has occurred, to be able 

to stay up with the maintenance to provide access for everyone. 

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Mrs. KIRKPATRICK. I really appreciate your thoughts on that, and 

I just want you to know that is a top priority of mine. I am also 

on the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and roads 

are so important to this whole idea of healthy forest management 

and fire prevention that I think we sometimes forget. 

The other thing, I really appreciated your comment about expanding the market for wood products. And I would like your 

thought about what kind of incentives we could put in place to actually help expand the market. 

Chief TIDWELL. Well, we had the incentive in the farm bill that 

would subsidize the transportation of biomass that we were able to 

very effectively use in places to be able to really get that industry 

started. And there is some benefit to be able to have incentives 

when you are trying to create new industry, and so they can figure 

out the economics and stuff they need some assistance over, ideally, over the few years. That is one benefit that we have seen. 

I think another way is with our long-term stewardship contracts 

where we guarantee that there is going to be X amount of work for 

the next 10 years. The purchasers then can take that to the bank. 

They can borrow money on that contract, they can invest in equipment, the can invest in personnel, create more jobs, because they 

are guaranteed either they will have the work to do or we will then 

pay them. So either way, the banker is happy with it. That is another area we need to continue to be able to expand. 

The other is with our collaboratives. Like what you did with the 

farm bill, with the CE, where you required the collaborative effort, 

that is a tremendous incentive to bring people together to be able 

to use this new tool, to be more efficient, more effective, and be 

able to get some more projects moving forward. 

Also, when we look at the use of wood in this country, and it 

kind of got a bad name for years because people were so worried 

about why we were doing the work, and today, with the understanding that we need to use wood to be able to restore our forests, 

it is like it is a good thing to do; to use it for furniture in our buildings. And the more than we can find ways to help folks to understand that it saves energy, it is a green building material, and by 

doing that, it provides the economic activity so that we can restore 

our forests, reduce the hazards. 

So those are some of the things that we want to continue to work 

on. 

Mrs. KIRKPATRICK. Thank you. My time has expired, but I look 

forward to working with you more about this, and again, I appreciate your testimony here today. 

I yield back. 

The CHAIRMAN. I am pleased to recognize the gentleman from 

Georgia, Mr. Allen, for 5 minutes. 

Mr. ALLEN. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Did I turn it off? There 

we go. Sorry. 

As a small business owner and in the construction business, we 

elected to not do work with the Federal Government because of 

things like, for example, Davis-Bacon and other things—— 

Chief TIDWELL. Yes. 

Mr. ALLEN.—like that. Are you under the same requirements, 

Federal contracting, for loggers in the Forest Service as we are in 

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the, say, with the General Services Administration and folks like 

that, like Davis-Bacon, are you required to implement DavisBacon? 

Chief TIDWELL. When we are doing a service contract under the 

Federal acquisition regulations, we follow Davis-Bacon. 

Mr. ALLEN. Okay. 

Chief TIDWELL. Under a timber sale, contract, we have some different flexibilities. 

Mr. ALLEN. Right. Right. Well, I guess what you probably should 

do is talk with some of these folks who are great contractors out 

there and maybe see what you can do to make that process a little 

more attractive; because, frankly, it is a lot easier to do work in 

the private-sector than it is for the government. 

Chief TIDWELL. Yes. 

Mr. ALLEN. Going back to the collaboration effort, we are going 

to hear testimony from some of our ranchers here lately about their 

issues as far as being good neighbors. And I don’t think the government has been a very good neighbor. We have created some real 

problems for our private landowners because we have not done 

some things—I mean we deal with the pine bark beetles down 

South. Can you tell me what can you do to collaborate with our 

neighbors and be more neighborly, and what restrains you from 

doing what they are doing—we have a 40 percent sustainable rate 

in Georgia. We grow 40 percent more trees than we cut. 

Chief TIDWELL. Yes. 

Mr. ALLEN. I mean we are doing a lot of really good things. Can 

you learn from them? Can you collaborate and say, hey, let’s be 

good neighbors and we want to do some of the same, what is restraining you from doing that? 

Chief TIDWELL. Yes, it goes back to our funding issue and the 

lack of staff. But the things we are doing is we are looking at large 

landscapes that include not only the private land, but also the public land to be able to look at what we can be doing by working together. Working with NRCS and using their authorities. We are 

doing these pilot projects, what we call our Two Chiefs Projects, 

where we bring NRCS authorities and their funding, along with 

the Forest Service’s authorities, and work with the private landowner to be able to do work on their land and on the National Forest at the same time. It produces efficiencies with contracts, it allows us to address the issues over a much larger scale, whether it 

is something to deal with the Southern Bark Beetle, whether it is 

to deal with invasive, about improving overall watershed conditions, improving forage conditions. So it is an example that we 

want to continue to expand on. We want to be a better neighbor. 

With the good neighbor authority that we have with the 2014 Farm 

Bill, it expands our ability to be able to work across lines so that, 

when it comes to forest pest issues, they don’t have a border, they 

don’t stop when they hit a boundary on private ground or on National Forest. 

Mr. ALLEN. Well, so you say your only restraint is funding? 

Chief TIDWELL. Well, there is no question that if we had the 

staffing that we had 15 years ago where we would have 40 percent 

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owners. There is no question about that. But that being the case, 

these are the other things we are working on. 

Mr. ALLEN. Well, obviously, the forestland belongs to the people—— 

Chief TIDWELL. Yes. 

Mr. ALLEN.—of this country, and we all have an interest in protecting that forestland. And public-private partnerships are working well everywhere because, like I said, we can get things done 

a lot faster and a lot quicker on the private side than, say, you are 

capable of doing. So I would ask you to investigate ways that we 

can manage our forests so that we don’t have these problems. 

Obviously, the fires are a problem, and I am just about out of 

time, but what is the biggest thing that is keeping you from preventing forest fires, other than money? 

Chief TIDWELL. It is the climate. Having hotter, dryer fire seasons that are now 78 days longer, on average, that when we get, 

say, 300, 500 lightning starts in one day, one night we will get 98, 

99 percent of them, but there will be that one that gets away. And 

with the conditions that we have, how dry the fields are, when we 

are dealing with places like in southern California, where you have 

4 years of extensive drought, that is the problem. 

So it is going to take a combination of continuing our suppression 

resources, our suppression efforts, but we also need to be able to 

expand thinning out these forests so that when we do get that 

start, it is a lot easier for the firefighters to be able to suppress 

that fire and reduce the threat to our communities. So it is kind 

of a twofold problem. We need the resources, we need to fix the 

budget, and then we need to expand the work that we are doing 

on the landscape. 

The work that we have done in the South, it is an example for 

the rest of the country about how people came together years ago, 

figured out what needed to be done on the landscape, and make the 

difference. 

Mr. ALLEN. Well, we want to work with you. My time is up and 

I yield back. 

The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman yields back. 

I am pleased to recognize the gentlelady from New Hampshire 

for 5 minutes of questioning. 

Ms. KUSTER. Thank you very much, and thank you to our Chairman and Vice Chairman, and to Chief Tidwell for being with us 

today. 

I am going to start with just a very brief personal story because 

I come from New Hampshire, and I want to get into questions 

about how fighting fires in the West are reducing resources in the 

Northeast, but I had a personal experience this summer. We all 

went out to my niece’s wedding in Washington State, beautiful cascades, 22 of us, had a wonderful time, really beautiful area. My 

brother moved out there 40 years ago as a logger, and now he 

builds second homes for Dot.com millionaires, it is a really nice 

area. But the week after we came home, his town, not only the 

town but the road and the neighborhood where sadly, the three 

firefighters died in Twisp, Washington, and when I reached him on 

the phone that night and I said, ‘‘Are you okay,’’ he said, ‘‘No, we 

have all been evacuated, my pregnant niece, my nephew, and it 

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was a very harrowing few days.’’ And I just want to thank you and 

all of the firefighters out there. It was a sheer miracle. He went 

back up to the house that he had left some sprinklers, and at midnight, 20 guys on a crew showed up and two tanker trucks and 

saved his home. And I am just incredibly grateful. And I want to 

go out to all the firefighters across the country, and I am so sorry 

for the family that lost their 21 year old son, headed back to college, and the three folks who died. 

So I want to start with that, that this is an issue that is impacting all of us across the country, but just to return to the impact 

on your budget and what this means for the rest of us, and I just 

want to weigh-in. I think my colleagues on both sides of the aisle 

want to solve this budgetary problem. I am interested in your approach of pulling off one or two percent of these very large catastrophic fires. And having been out there for a week, I can certainly say that all through the West, the dryness, the drought, and 

whole communities being lost. Our colleague, Mike Thompson, 

talks about the loss of homes, middle-class families that cannot afford to rebuild. 

So could you just comment, if you will, on the impact on lost timber sales, and you have gotten at it a little bit, but if we could go 

back to that, lost timber sales for us back east, and I am concerned 

if we run into a drought, we are going to be facing wildfires on both 

sides of the country. If you could get to that. 

Chief TIDWELL. Well, one specific example of that on the Colville 

National Forest in eastern Washington, we had two or three of our 

collaborative forest landscape scale projects that were teed-up to 

get started on, and all three of those projects—all three of them 

were timber sales, all three of them did burn. 

Ms. KUSTER. Geez. 

Chief TIDWELL. So we lost the investment of all the planning to 

do the work. We will be able to get in there and do salvage and 

recovery on some of the material and stuff, and be able to accomplish many of the objectives, but, that is one specific example, on 

the other hand, I give our folks credit. They had planned the 

projects in the right place to make a difference—— 

Ms. KUSTER. Right. 

Chief TIDWELL.—they were just a year—they needed one more 

year to get the work done. But we do lose every year. We lose some 

of our—actually, timber sales that are prepped, ready to go. In fact, 

they had fires that burned through active timber sales this year. 

We tried to get the folks back in there as quick as we can to be 

able to remove that material and stuff. But you have to remember 

that our timber sales are focused on improving the forest health, 

reducing hazardous fuels, because we do a lot of hazardous fuels 

reduction with our timber sales. Almost every single one of them 

provides that benefit, along with improving the forest health. So it 

has an impact on both. It also has an impact on our purchasers, 

our loggers, that we just have to be able to keep them in work so 

that they are around to be able to do the work. And so that is another consequence that I am also worried about is to being able 

to—we need to increase the work that we are doing on a sustainable basis so folks can make the investments, expand their businesses to be able to do more of this work. 

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Ms. KUSTER. Well, on behalf of the rest of the country, I really 

want to emphasize that testimony and make sure that our colleagues on both sides of the aisle can work together. This is such 

a rare issue, can I say, where we have a solution. Many of our 

issues in Congress we don’t have a solution, and we clearly have 

a solution in front of us, and I hope we can work together. 

And then just in closing, Mr. Chairman, if I could put in a 

shameless plug for our new biomass caucus, Bruce Westerman, Republican from Arkansas’ 4th District, and I have just started a biomass caucus, and I want to invite my colleagues on both sides of 

the aisle because it is a wonderful solution to some of those timber 

products that aren’t going to go into board feet. But thank you very 

much. 

The CHAIRMAN. No objection to shameless plugs. 

The gentlemen from California, Mr. Costa and Mr. Aguilar, are 

not Members of the Subcommittee but have joined us today, and 

pursuant to Committee Rule XI(e), I have consulted with the Ranking Member and we are pleased to welcome them to the questioning of witnesses. I am pleased to recognize, at this time, Mr. 

Costa, from California, for 5 minutes of questioning. 

Mr. COSTA. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and the Ranking Member for holding this important Subcommittee hearing. It is 

timely, and I hope that, on a bipartisan basis, we will come up with 

some efforts to try to deal with what is becoming not just a western 

states problem, but a national problem because of the impacts on 

the budget. 

I too support H.R. 167, and I have a number of questions, so I 

am going to get to the heart of the matter and I will submit the 

rest when time runs out. 

I think it is a misnomer now though to say the fire season, because it is no longer a season. With these drought conditions, we 

are really talking about, in places like California and certain areas, 

365 days a year when you look at the impact. So let me just give 

you some quick examples. January 1 through September 26, which 

was a couple of weeks ago, we had 5,496 fires on California lands 

that burned 305,000 acres. On Federal land, we had 1,869 fires 

that burned over 501,000 acres. Combined, these fires, in a 9 

month period, a total of 7,365 fires that have burned over 806,000 

acres, and the year is not over. And obviously, a week ago we had 

26 fires going on concurrently in California, thousands and thousands of people—and, of course, my heart also goes out to those 

firefighters and those that have lost their lives, and their families. 

The average last year was, to give you a comparison, we had 3,818 

fires last year, for 190,000 acres. So it has become exponentially a 

real problem. 

Let me get to the questions quickly because of my time. As you 

said, Chief Tidwell, and we thank you for your service and your 

team, the budget that was authorized to be appropriated of a little 

over $1 billion. You are now up to $1.7 billion in expenditures. In 

that situation, what impact do you see these programs having on 

their funding being reappropriated? 

Chief TIDWELL. Well, with the $700 million that we received in 

the CR to repay this, we will be able to go back and be able to implement a lot of that work this coming year. The thing that we 

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have lost though is that field season, that 3 or 4, 5 weeks that, 

even with the money now coming, to get the crews back out there, 

to do the road maintenance work, to do the sale prep for the next 

projects, to do the inventory and monitoring work that is so essential that—because without that data, we are not—— 

Mr. COSTA. Now, are we—— 

Chief TIDWELL.—able to—— 

Mr. COSTA. We have conversations—— 

Chief TIDWELL.—be able to move forward. 

Mr. COSTA.—with the California Fire Chief, Ken Pimlott, who 

you work with, and he talked about the reductions of Federal expenditures and how it has serious impacts on local operations, and 

without a proper funding mechanism, it further complicates the efforts for the men and the women who are on the ground fighting 

the fires, both at the state and local levels. What can be done to 

provide the maximum amount of assistance to boots on the ground 

for our firefighters? 

Chief TIDWELL. Well, stop the transfer, stop the erosion of our 

proactive programs so that we can create a safer environment for 

our firefighters so they are at less risk, to be able to protect communities and be able to suppress these fires. 

Mr. COSTA. Right, and that is an important point, and the other 

Members and I concur with the comments that they have made 

previously. Because we are not able to do proper forest management and these fires, what we have now are fire behaviors that 

have changed. They previously burned with less intensity. Today, 

they are burning with more intensity, and they are staying under 

the tops of the trees. And in many cases being good forest restoration, we are seeing fires burning hotter and more extensive because 

we have more biomass out there. And then for California in 

drought conditions, it is further compounded because the water 

that normally would recharge into our aquifer is going to support 

this additional biomass that normally we would clean and move out 

of there. So it further complicates the efforts. 

Do you think, Chief Tidwell, we would be able to better manage 

the budget situation if we had a 10 year average cost of wildfire 

firefighting management budgeted? 

Chief TIDWELL. If if we can budget for and cover the full cost of 

our fire season is—we have to find some solution. The problem 

with the 10 year average is the—— 

Mr. COSTA. But the change in the climate, we don’t know what 

10 year averages are anymore. 

Chief TIDWELL. We can’t—— 

Mr. COSTA. I get it. 

Chief TIDWELL. Exactly, sir. We just—— 

Mr. COSTA. What can be better done to manage the forests in 

order to reduce the size and the intensity of these fires? 

Chief TIDWELL. A combination of two things. Get out there and 

increase the acres that we are thinning, increase the forest resiliency through removal of biomass, and then also the use of prescribed fire in the back country. It is going to take all of the tools 

available to make a change in the fire regime. 

Mr. COSTA. Well, my time has expired. Mr. Chairman, I appreciate the work of this Subcommittee, and I commit to working with 

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all of you. You know that old definition of insanity is: ‘‘Doing things 

the way you have always done them and expect different results,’’ 

and this applies here and we need to come up and figure out a way 

to do it better. 

The CHAIRMAN. I thank the gentleman for joining us today. 

I am pleased to recognize the other gentleman from California, 

Mr. Aguilar, for 5 minutes. 

Mr. AGUILAR. Thanks so much, Mr. Chairman. I appreciate the 

opportunity and the invitation to be here and to share some of the 

concerns and the questions that I have as well. 

Chief Tidwell, I represent San Bernardino County, which is just 

adjacent and includes the San Bernardino Mountains that are just 

north, and have caused considerable wildfire issues locally as well. 

Earlier this year, there was a fire that started June 17, and 

reached 90 percent containment on the 4th of July: 31,000 acres 

were burned and nearly $40 million in damages. And it is speculated, as you have discussed, that the prolonged amount of time 

that it burned was as a result of dead vegetation and other issues 

that had not been managed. 

If you could continue to kind of walk me through that piece. 

What role timber sales and controlled burns play in the prevention 

of fires, and how your budget continues to be crowded out because 

of the catastrophic fires in that top one percent. And specifically, 

what programs continue to be affected by that budgetary crowding 

out. 

Chief TIDWELL. Well, first of all, we need to recognize that the 

conditions we face today are a result of the climate change that we 

are experiencing where, with these hotter, drier, longer fire seasons, we need to remove more of the biomass off of the landscape 

through a combination of mechanical treatments, timber sales, and 

also using prescribed fire to reduce the amount of biomass. The second part of it is that, when you look at these one percent of these 

large fires, there is no question they should be a—they are a natural disaster, and we ought to find a way to budget for it appropriately, and then free-up our ability to be proactive on the work. 

What has been impacting our programs that affect our ability is 

that, if you look at over time how much capacity we have lost with 

39 percent fewer employees that are outside of our fire organization, they are the folks that would do the veg. work, vegetation 

management, the watershed improvement work, they are the folks 

that would be dealing with improving the roads, doing the road 

maintenance. They are also the folks that put the planning together so that we know what we need to do to be able to work with 

the communities. So it has had an overall impact on our ability to 

manage. And it is not just one program. By maintaining funding, 

say, in our forest management program, that in itself is not 

enough. The way that we work, everything is interrelated, and it 

is the way we go about our mission. And if you just have one program that you are able to maintain the funding at, you are still 

going to be impacting our ability to get all the work done. And that 

is the thing that folks need to understand. When it comes to forest 

health, it is not only forest products, it is not only haz fields funding, it is also our using salvage sale funding and choosing our KV 

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funding, it is also using our road funding. It takes all of that to be 

able to manage these forests for the public. 

Mr. AGUILAR. And it affects every other line item that you have 

within your budget, and that is clear—— 

Chief TIDWELL. It does. 

Mr. AGUILAR.—as well as the fires in the West, as Mr. Costa 

mentioned, affecting some of the work that needs to be done out 

in the East as well. 

The definition of the top one percent of catastrophic fires, I understand from a budgetary standpoint that we would want to be cautious with that. How would you define that? Would it be by acreage, by damage, by manpower, what would rise to that level of that 

top one percent of catastrophic fires? 

Chief TIDWELL. Well, there are several proposals out there, even 

going back to the language, it was in the FLAME Act that we are 

currently working under, and also in the Wildfire Disaster Funding 

Act, but really what they are are the fires that, because of the size, 

the complexity, and the threat. So if you look at just the top ten 

fires in Fiscal Year 2015 so far this year, those are the ones that 

CNN has covered, all the other networks, the news covers, just 

those top ten fires, $280 million. That is just ten, and that is not 

even a fraction of—I mean it is a fraction of one percent of all the 

fires that we deal with. Those are the type of fires that we believe 

should be considered a natural disaster. Those large-scale fires, the 

ones that burn for weeks, the ones that burn through the communities, those are the ones that we would look at—and we want to 

work with the Committee to be able to come up with the criteria 

and have a way to say, ‘‘Yes, these are the fires that we want to 

fund this way.’’ 

Mr. AGUILAR. In order to have that flexibility, I know that you 

need that flexibility in order to protect our communities, and it is 

something that we need to do. 

I appreciate your time. And thank you so much again, Mr. Chairman. 

The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman yields back. 

Chief, thank you so much for being here and for your testimony 

and for your leadership. It is very much appreciated. 

With that, I am pleased to call our next panel to the table. On 

the second panel we will have Mr. Rod Haeberle, owner of Haeberle 

Ranch in Okanagan, Washington. Hopefully I got that close, Rod. 

Okay. I am also pleased to welcome to the second panel Dr. Christopher Topik, Director of Restoring America’s Forests at The Nature Conservancy. I would yield to the Ranking Member for introduction of the next two witnesses. 

Mr. LUJAN GRISHAM. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. 

We have two New Mexicans here, and I am delighted that you 

are here to share your experiences. As you have heard in testimony 

by my colleagues and by myself, we all have personal experiences, 

unfortunately, with severe wildfires. 

And so, Mr. Chairman, I would like to welcome Chief Erik 

Litzenberg, and he is the Fire Chief for the Santa Fe Fire Department, and he is testifying today on behalf of the International Association of Fire Chiefs. So welcome, Chief. And I also want to welcome Colonel Ronald Priddy. He is the Director of Government AfVerDate Mar 15 2010 11:05 Feb 16, 2016 Jkt 041481 PO 00000 Frm 00033 Fmt 6633 Sfmt 6601 P:\DOCS\114-30\97183.TXT BRIAN
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fairs for 10 Tanker Air Carrier from Albuquerque, which is, of 

course, the heart of my district. I want to thank you both for making the trip. And, Mr. Chairman, thank you for yielding to me. 

The CHAIRMAN. I thank the gentlelady. Welcome to the hearing. 

And we will get started. 

Sir, Mr. Haeberle, if you would go ahead and proceed with your 

5 minutes of testimony. 

STATEMENT OF ROD HAEBERLE, OWNER, HAEBERLE RANCH, 

OKANOGAN, WA 

Mr. HAEBERLE. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for allowing me to 

speak today. 

Log it, graze it, or watch it burn is the subject of my testimony 

to you today. In 1975, while I was working for Crown Zellerback 

lumber company, the Spotted Owl endangered species controversy 

began. Shortly thereafter, with no bonding or scientific proof, a 37¢ 

stamp on a letter of protest for each timber sale was enough to 

begin voiding the timber industry where I worked. The result was 

no logging, no resource to the mill, and the eventual closure and 

dismantling of the mill for scrap. Along with that, loggers and millworkers lost their jobs, merchants lost business in town, and the 

domino effect led to a tremendous downturn in the local economy. 

Since that time, logging has nearly diminished in the Okanogan 

Wenatchee National Forest in Washington State. The unintended 

consequences of the environmental movement that began 40 years 

ago in our forest is an ecosystem that has become densely overgrown. The canopy has completely closed in most places and underlying forage has been diminished by high volumes of underbrush 

and debris. These forest conditions have resulted in unhealthy forests that are prone to disease and wildfire. 

As a result, firefighting has become big business. The 2015 fires 

in Okanogan County have scorched 509,739 acres and is still growing. It has cost an estimated $100 million. 

Firefighting practices over the last 40 years have also changed. 

Initial attack by smokejumpers, bulldozer hot-lining, and aircraft 

drops of water or retardant onto fires immediately, immediately 

after they are reported is a concept of days gone by. Today, hours 

and hours, sometimes days, pass before the fire is attacked properly. Too much time is wasted determining who has authority over 

the fire. Then resource division is notified and the priority authority orders the determined resources after they have gone through 

all of the channels. In the meantime, the fire gets away from them. 

One Blackhawk helicopter loaded with water should be available 

for immediate initial attack. Backed up by other resources as necessary, this could potentially extinguish nearly every fire before 

ever reaching any significant magnitude. 

Recently, back-burns have been used more extensively. The frequency and magnitude of their use has become the subject of a lot 

of controversy with local firefighters. This year, many of them were 

failures, resulting in huge economic losses of timber and grazing 

land. 

Fire briefings for firefighters and contractors are mandatory each 

morning at 6:00 a.m. They inform expected weather including humidity, temperature, wind, and dryness of fuels. Safety, radio chanVerDate Mar 15 2010 11:05 Feb 16, 2016 Jkt 041481 PO 00000 Frm 00034 Fmt 6633 Sfmt 6601 P:\DOCS\114-30\97183.TXT BRIAN
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nels, aerial programs, human resources, updates, sports updates, 

and fire-updated maps are provided. Division supervisors with 

their assigned personnel are included in these briefings. The break 

of daylight is the lowest temperature, highest humidity part of the 

day. Consequently, the early morning hours of the day will yield 

the most production on ground and aerial results. Again, these are 

opportunities that are wasted on a daily basis. 

Local personnel should be used in selecting dozer lines rather 

than out-of-area people. This year’s fire had a large amount of outof-state division supervisors who did not know old logging roads or 

areas where dozers could have been less jeopardized, and saved 

many more structures and acres from burning. 

Noxious weeds, after a fire, will germinate very prolifically with 

spring moisture, and do. If they are eradicated before going to seed, 

they will be eliminated or reduced significantly. If they are ignored 

and left to go to seed, they will take over large tracts of ground and 

eventually crowd out desired forage for wildlife and livestock. Noxious weed management should be a continued and ongoing effort. 

Fire in well-managed property can be used as a valuable tool in 

cleaning up low-lying ground fuels and stimulate forage growth 

without destroying valuable timber. These forests are a savings account for future generations, both in economic value and the health 

of our planet. Selective timber harvest, prescribed burning, reseeding, noxious weed control, and flexible grazing programs are key to 

reducing the fuel load that drive the magnitudes of these fires. Immediate initial response to wildfires by aggressive air attacks 

would come at an overall price savings. 

In my opinion, the continued neglect of our forests that leads to 

their eventual destruction and the loss of enormous savings of economic wealth and environmental stability should be a crime punishable by law. Let’s make the commitment to spend a fraction of 

what we have spent fighting the fire, and spend it instead on 

proactive measures to sustain healthy forests. Hire people to selectively log appropriate densities of the trees, thinning underbrush 

and debris, and using low-intensity fires in late fall and winter to 

clean the forest floor. Doing so will create an abundance of vegetation for wildlife and livestock grazing, which converts into edible 

protein and vitamins for humans. 

Log it, graze it, or watch it burn, and watch it burn we have. 

Let’s pay it forward to the future generations by renewing our forests and rebuilding our economy in a partnership that honors best 

practices in the management of our natural resources. 

Thank you. 

[The prepared statement of Mr. Haeberle follows:] 

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PREPARED STATEMENT OF ROD HAEBERLE, OWNER, HAEBERLE RANCH, OKANOGAN, WA 

Okanogan Complex Fires Black Canyon and Squaw Creek Fires. 8–16– 

15. 

‘‘Log it, graze it, or watch it burn’’ is the subject of my testimony to you today. 

In 1975, while working for Crown Zellerback lumber company, the Spotted Owl endangered species controversy began. Shortly thereafter, with no bonding or scientific 

proof, a 37 cent stamp on a letter of protest for each timber sale was enough to 

begin voiding the timber industry. The result was no logging, no resource to the mill 

and the eventual closure and dismantling of the mill for scrap prices. Along with 

that, loggers and mill workers lost their jobs. The merchants in town lost business. 

The domino effect led to a tremendous downturn in the local economy. Since that 

time, logging has nearly diminished on the Okanogan Wenatchee National Forest 

in Washington State. The unintended consequences of the environmental movement 

that began 40 years ago in our forest is an ecosystem that has become densely overgrown. The canopy has completely closed in most places and underlying forage has 

been diminished by high volumes of underbrush and debris. These forest conditions 

have resulted in unhealthy forests that are prone to disease and wildfire. 

As a result, fire fighting has become big business. The 2015 fires of Okanogan 

County have scorched 509,739 acres and is still growing. It has cost an estimated 

$100 million. Fire fighting practices over the last forty years have also changed. Initial attack by smoke jumpers, bulldozer hotlining and aircraft drops of water or retardant onto fires immediately after they are reported is a concept of days gone by. 

Today hours and hours, sometimes days pass before the fire is attacked properly. 

Too much time is wasted determining who has authority of the fire. Then resource 

division is notified and the priority authority orders the determined resources after 

they have gone through all of the channels. In the meantime the fire gets away from 

them. One Blackhawk helicopter loaded with water should be available for immediate initial attack. Backed up by other resources as necessary this could potentially 

extinguish nearly every fire before ever reaching any significant magnitude. 

Recently, backburns have been used more extensively. The frequency and magnitude of their use has become the subject of a lot of controversy with local firefighters. This year many of them were failures resulting in huge economic losses of 

timber and grazing land. 

Fire briefings for fire fighters and contractors are mandatory each morning at 6 

o’clock a.m. They inform expected weather including humidity, temperature, wind 


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and dryness of fuels. Safety, radio channels, aerial programs, human resources, updates, sports updates, and fire updated maps are provided. Division supervisors 

with their assigned personnel are included in the briefings. The break of daylight 

is the lowest temperature, highest humidity part of the day. Consequently the early 

morning hours of the day will yield the most productive on ground and aerial results. Again, these are opportunities that are wasted on a daily basis. 

Local personnel should be used in the selecting dozer lines rather than out of area 

people. This years fire had a large amount of out of state division supervisors who 

did not know old logging road or areas where dozers could have been less jeopardized and saved many more structures and acres from burning. 

Noxious weeds, after a fire will germinate very prolifically with spring moisture. 

If they are eradicated before going to seed they will be eliminated or reduced significantly. If they are ignored and left go to seed they will take over large tracts of 

ground and eventually crowd out desired forage for wildlife and livestock. Noxious 

weed management should be a continued ongoing program. 

Fire in well managed property can be used as a valuable tool in cleaning up low 

lying ground fuels and stimulate forage growth without destroying valuable timber. 

These forests are a savings account for future generations both in economic value 

and the health of our planet. 

Selective timber harvest, prescribed burning, reseeding, noxious weed control, and 

flexible grazing programs are key to reducing the fuel load that drive the magnitudes of these fires. Immediate initial response to wildfires by aggressive air attacks would come at an overall price savings. 

In my opinion, the continued neglect of our forests that leads to their eventual 

destruction and the loss of enormous savings of economic wealth and environmental 

stability should be a crime punishable by law. Let’s make the commitment to spend 

a fraction of what we have spent fighting the fire and spend it instead on proactive 

measures to sustain healthy forests. Hire people to selectively log appropriate densities of trees, thinning underbrush and debris, and using low intensity fires in late 

fall and winter to clean the forest floor. Doing so will create an abundance of vegetation for wildlife and livestock grazing which converts into edible protein and vitamins for humans. 

‘‘Log it, graze it, or watch it burn!’’ and watch it burn we have. Let’s pay it forward to future generations by renewing our forests and rebuilding our economy in 

a partnership that honors best practices in the management of our natural resources. 

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EXHIBIT A 

Okanogan County Complex Fire Daily Progression 

Light teal = carlton complex 2014—256,108 acres 

332 homes destroyed and 149 other structures 

Cost $60 million 

Lives lost = 2 (heart attack protecting home, complications from fall fighting fire to protect home) 

Okanogan, tunk block and North Star Complex 2015—509,739 acres 

96 homes destroyed, 95 cabins and 38 other structures 

Cost estimated $100 million (fires still burning on north star) 

Lives lost = 3 (Twisp River Fire all fire fighters) 


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EXHIBIT B 

Okanogan Wenatchee National Forest unmanaged and waiting for a high 

intensity burn. 

Picture taken 10/01/2015. 

Okanogan Wenatchee National Forest unmanaged and waiting for a high 

intensity burn. 

Picture taken 8/24/2015. 


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EXHIBIT C 

Okanogan Wenatchee National Forest unmanaged and high intensity 

burn. 

Picture taken 8/24/2015. 

EXHIBIT D 

Washington State Department of Natural Resource Land that was logged, 

thinned, prescriptively burned, and grazed by cattle. 

Picture taken 10/01/2015. 


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EXHIBIT E 

Tripod Fire 2006 burned approximately 240,000 acres. 

Picture taken 10/01/2015. 

EXHIBIT F 

Cattle lead away from the fires. 


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Cattle that were unable to escape. 

EXHIBIT G 

Noxious weeds after the fires—regrowth after Carlton Complex fires of 

2014. 


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EXHIBIT H 

To Whom it may concern, 

I am writing this letter to bring some light to the events that have led to the largest wildfire that our beloved Washington State has ever experienced. 

There has been decades of mismanagement brought forth by special interest 

groups, whether or not anyone wants to acknowledge the fact that lobbyist control 

more of the government than the people that vote. Washington State Department 

of Fish and Wildlife, USFS, Dept. of Natural Resources, and BLM have historically 

shown a disregard for what an actual healthy forest or range consists of. It does 

not take more than a mile or 2 of driving, riding, or hiking through any of these 

agencies areas of responsibilities to see that we, as a nation, are in direct threat 

at any given moment of another devastating event, similar to the one that just 

passed. Whether it is an endangered bird, a threatened species of fish, or the newest 

addition, the re-introduction of the grey wolf, our governing agencies time and time 

again, have not, do not, nor have they shown, any equality when it comes to decision 

make about the health of our public lands. What better people to engage in the process of management than the people whose livelihood depends the very health and 

longevity of these lands. For everything that has been addressed in recent history, 

our voices have fallen on deaf ears. Only now, after the most devastating wildfire 

in states history, do we hold your attention? 

With that being said, there are some major issues regarding how catastrophes like 

this could be avoided. Time and time again throughout this incident, decisions were 

made miles from the actual fire line that had a direct deficit to the act of engaging 

the fire correctly and completion of that task. Miles of dozer line placed in locations 

where anyone with minimal fire behavior knowledge would have known better. 

Through treed thickets, when there was greatly more desirable ground that would 

be faster, more efficient, and have a greater impact on the control of this incident. 

Being treated like ‘‘local idiots’’ by agency officials only to be asked for information 

and direction after it was out of hand. To have multiple strike teams, engine crews, 

hand crews drive by active fire, threatening homes, farms, and ranches, manned by 

local people and have ‘‘resource management’’ personnel direct and effort worth the 

raising of the pyramids, drive past to a location to protect a group of ‘‘homes’’, when 

in reality the structures are all recreational and to no one’s surprise, located on or 

near National Forest. Every owner of these ‘‘homes’’ has a roof over their head 

somewhere else, not so for the those that were passed by for 6 days. These are just 

a few of the things that I take issue with not only as a landowner, but as a former 

Washington State DNR firefighter. 

Time and time again, local ranchers, farmers, contractors and average people, 

pulled together to gain the upper hand. Only to be told ‘‘You’re not doing it right’’, 

or ‘‘we don’t do structure protection’’. It is a testament to the hardiness of the residents of this county, to stand up and ignore the ignorance of the agencies involved 

and continue to help their neighbor. There needs to be an end to the arrogance of 

the controlling powers and some humbleness injected into the system that allows 

the desecration of land ‘‘WE THE PEOPLE’’ have built. 

Local resources need to be utilized, period. Too many times, locals engaged in initial attack, many on their own property, were told to pull off, go to the command 

center, and get ‘‘checked in’’. There are hundreds of combined years of wildfire 

knowledge imbedded within the residents of this county and to have that ignored 

is an atrocity. There needs to be a system in place that our local agency, without 

question, can call upon resources that are in the immediate area instead of out of 

state. The timeline for response MUST be drastically reduced. The phrase ‘‘there 

just aren’t any resources’’ is an excuse, not the answer. There is too much ‘‘technology’’ involved in this process. A simple list of local loggers, construction contractors, farmers, and ranchers with equipment capable of aiding any effort, should be 

maintained by, and carried with, agency fire officials in their home area. A list in 

Wenatchee, 90 miles away, does no good to the forester that happens by a lightning 

strike near Conconully. Time is of the essence. 

Peter Goldmark, Commissioner of Public Lands, requested and received, millions 

of dollars to add to the firefighting readiness of our state. I now ask, where was 

that spent? After last year’s Carlton Complex, promises were made, and broke less 

than 10 months later. ‘‘Fire managers’’ is a term not to be used in one of the worst 

drought years in history. August is not the time of year to ‘‘manage’’ a fire, but to 

engage and stop. Policies and practices of letting fire run it’s natural course is not 

a viable choice. It would be, if there were acts to actively reduce the ‘‘Fuel loading’’ 

in our forests. Grazing, logging, and thinning are just a few of the methods to be 

utilized. 

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As I end this letter, I look out the window, to the land our family homesteaded 

before the 1900’s, to realize that my son, will not live long enough, to see the scars 

of this tragedy, be healed and view this land as his ancestors once did. And that, 

brings true sorrow my soul. 

Sincerely, 

CHAD STANSBURY, 

Riverside, WA. 

EXHIBIT I 

October 3, 2015 

United States House of Representatives, 

Committee on Agriculture. 

We are a family of third, fourth and fifth generation cattle ranchers in the 

Okanogan Valley, having lived in the Scotch Creek area since 1945. The lightning 

strike Lime Belt fire started 10 miles northwest of our ranch and followed an almost 

direct path to our doorstep. The result was a major impact on our ranch and the 

ability to make a living. 

This fire started on United States Forest Service (USFS) ground but quickly 

spread to the 8,694 acre Scotch Creek Wildlife Area. It is owned by Washington Department Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) and was purchased in 1991 as a sharp-tail 

grouse habitat. Prior to the purchase, this land was a working cattle ranch and was 

largely grazed and cultivated. Wildlife thrived in that environment but, as a result 

of the programs introduced by the WDFW, they have been forced to find feed elsewhere due to much of the land being allowed to lie fallow. The lack of disturbance 

to the soils from practices such as grazing and farming allowed massive amounts 

of fire fuels to be added to this land which borders our 980 acre ranch both to the 

north and west. When the fire reached this land there was little fighting that could 

be done safely as it moved rapidly and with intense heat. If this property had been 

more aggressively managed and a fuels reduction program in use, this fire could 

have been possibly contained before it reached adjoining areas. 

Immediate and aggressive action on the part of the USFS and Washington State 

Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to control this fire would have produced 

a different outcome and losses most likely been negligible. It is rumored that DNR 

firefighters had to watch it burn as they had not been authorized to enter USFS 

lands. The time wasted waiting for the approval to fight the fire only helped fuel 

the ensuing firestorm. USFS, DNR, WDFW and local rural fire districts all worked 

hard to stop this fire but with little success as it rapidly reached the Scotch Creek 

Wildlife Area. These lands were a tinderbox waiting for the match and once lit, 

could not be contained. 

The fire went around or lightly scorched cultivated areas and burned hot through 

the undisturbed land and fence lines which border our property. The few areas 

WDFW had plowed and had allowed new weeds to grow were spared. The small portion of a dry land alfalfa field that, for the first time in many years had irrigation 

was not touched while the rest of the field had minor scorching. The majority of the 

Scotch Creek Wildlife area has been severely damaged. When the fire reached our 

ranch which has been grazed consistently, the fire still spread but without the intensity which was seen on WDFW lands. 

Our cattle were on a grazing permit we have with the USFS at the time of the 

fire. We lost almost 100% of our fall and spring grazing due to the fire. The majority 

of this is a 900 acre lease we have with the DNR. Their normal policy following a 

fire does not allow grazing to return for about 3 years. The remaining available land 

was scorched by the fire and at this time will provide no feed when cattle are 

shipped home from the mountains. We will have to begin supplementing with processed feed (baled alfalfa mostly) in mid to late October through June when they return to the permit in the mountains. 

Normally, the cattle would graze until the snow flies which is sometime between 

November and December. They are fed daily throughout the winter until the grass 

has grown enough to provide enough feed to allow grazing. This has created a burden of having to purchase extra feed to sustain the healthy condition of our animals. 

A ball park estimate of feed costs would be about $30,000 which breaks down to 

150 ton at $200.00 a ton. This is to feed 125 cow/calf pairs, six bulls and three 

horses for the additional 4 to 5 months that they would normally graze on the 

ranch. 

Not included in this is the feed that the many deer and other wildlife that have 

come to live in our alfalfa fields consume daily. In a normal year we often have up 

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to ten deer in our alfalfa almost every night. That number is now more like 100 

head. What the predators eat leaves less for the cattle. 

The number of predators has also increased. The burned skull and front quarters 

of a cougar has appeared in our yard and at least two cougars have attacked dogs 

just outside their owner’s homes. One cougar approached a neighbor in her yard, 

and luckily she was able to get quickly into her home and shut the door. She has 

pictures of the cougar with its front feet on her door peering in. Predator and wildlife control should become a major part of any fire restoration program. 

Besides pasture loss, there is approximately 25 miles of fencing that will need to 

be repaired or replaced. Fifty-four tons of hay was burned as well, but we were 

luckier than many as it was insured. Our ranch will also need to look at reducing 

our cattle numbers to match available resources. Of concern with this possibility is 

the need to meet the quota set by the USFS for maintaining our permit. Many 

ranchers may be faced with this same issue and it would be advantageous to all 

concerned if the USFS could provide a temporary program to assist with these 

changing needs. Such as allowing earlier access to our permit and longer grazing 

periods if range readiness is met or a temporary reduction in the number of cattle 

needed to fill the permits. 

We are not alone in this disaster and other ranchers in our area are faced with 

these same issues as well as others such as loss of animals. Cattle is the second 

largest crop produced locally in the largest county in our state. The economic impact 

of this fire is devastating to ranchers and we need your assistance to get back up 

and going again. 

Sincerely, 

WADE and KEVIN CUNNINGHAM. JAKE and KELSIE CUNNINGHAM. 

EXHIBIT J 

October 2, 2015 

RE: Okanogan Complex Fires, Okanogan, WA 2015 

To Whom it may concern, 

I write this letter having just returned from a 60 mile drive through our region 

in north central Washington. Plumes of smoke still rise from the hillsides, many of 

which are ready to slough if and when the rains come, homes and property destroyed and black for as far as the eye can see. 

I think it is important to hear from individuals who choose to live in this area 

due to the beauty and wonderful outdoor opportunities, along with those who make 

a living working with and on the land. 

It is heartbreaking to see the devastation that has been caused by this summers 

wildland fires. 

I first want to commend the line troops who spent countless hours protecting land 

and property. The firefighters were courageous and dedicated to their mission. 

I was home when the lightning struck north of our home which was soon thereafter to become the Blue Lake/Limebelt Fire. The trees immediately smoldered and 

attempts were made by local ranchers to contain the fire. 

Over the next 4 days, the fire grew and broke several containment attempts, 

eventually consuming all of the Limebelt south to the north City limits of Omak. 

While forest/land management strategies can be discussed endlessly, there are a 

few strategies we believe will make a significant difference in future responses. 

1. Pre-stage state and Federal Firefighting resources in areas of high drought 

with the ability to promptly move resources as the need arises with the intent 

that the fight is prompt and intended to put the fire out as soon as possible 

when near populated areas. 

2. Remove any financial incentive to let fires grow. 

3. Listen to and incorporate local fire departments as soon as practicable. The 

local departments in this area are all volunteer. The folks fighting the fire 

are fighting for their livelihood and are knowledgeable as to local resources, 

access routes and prompt strategies to address the fire. 

4. Remove the disincentive to put the fire out at the earliest possible moment. 

5. Work in the off season to address the communication and training deficits. It 

is amazing to me that there are so many facets of a fire response with very 

little in the way of common goals and leadership. As a career law enforcement 

professional, I cannot imagine nor should the community be satisfied with officers handling a fast moving violent riot with a variety of responders who 

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cannot talk with each other and do not have the same goals and mission. It 

is inexcusable that in this day and age that communication and command and 

control in a fast moving and potentially deadly wildland fire remains a significant challenge. 

6. Coordinate and fund land management strategies. The Blue Lake/Limebelt 

Fire quickly became out of control as it traveled through the Washington 

State Department of Fish and Wildlife Scotch Creek Wildlife Area. The Wildlife area had acre after acre of tall, dry grass and sage, allowing the fire to 

explode once it reached the area. This area was reserved for Sharped Tail 

Grouse, which at this point will be lucky to survive after the fire. 

7. Develop a proactive strategy to anticipate the legal attacks against active forest and land management. I cannot believe the U.S. Court system is not nimble enough to allow safe and realistic forest management strategies. It will 

take creative lawyering and persistence that if not undertaken will result in 

no forests and immeasurable loss. It is not an acceptable strategy to wait 

until the cause of action is filed before trying to implement a strategy. Forward thinking and strong leadership is needed if we are to be successful in 

addressing the quagmire currently in place. 

The loss to this area has yet to be fully appreciated. The drive today demonstrated we have significant issues in front of us as the years progress. Between 

the environmental challenges, housing challenges and continued economic viability 

of the region, there is much work ahead. 

I appreciate the opportunity to express my concerns and hope the information 

shared from this region is able to positively impact decisions and strategies important to all. 

Sincerely, 

LINDA PIERCE, Okanogan, WA. 

EXHIBIT K 

To: House Agriculture Committee 

Re: H.R. 167—Wildfire Disaster Funding Act 

Date: October 1, 2015 

Recent wildfires have devastated almost 1⁄3 of Okanogan County, including Federal, Tribal, state and private lands. The fires have burned through vast acreages 

of farmland, forestlands and shrub steppe habitats without regard to landownership 

or usage. Just as fires know no boundaries, noxious weeds do not respect fence lines 

or ownership, freely spreading to new areas, replacing desired crops, invading 

rangelands, and pristine wildlife habitats. 

Funding of noxious weed control programs within Federal agencies is already insufficient given the scope of landownership. The current funding mechanism for catastrophic wildfire suppression further decreases the already inadequate funding levels, when the remaining funds are pulled from noxious weed control programs to 

fund fire suppression efforts. 

Many noxious weeds, such as cheat grass, intensify fire activity and cycles, making those fires extreme and difficult to control. The more difficult the fire, the more 

funding pulled from controlling noxious weeds, increasing infestations of cheat grass 

and other weeds, and the process escalates. 

The Okanogan County Noxious Weed Control Board supports H.R. 167, the Wildfire Disaster Funding Act. This Act will make paying for fire suppression activities 

the same as other natural disasters and end the ineffective practice of ‘‘fire borrowing’’. 

H.R 167 will allow Federal noxious weed programs the ability to do what they 

were intended to do, namely control noxious weeds and provide the stewardship necessary of good Federal land managers. 

ANNA LYON, 

Manager, 

Okanogan County Noxious Weed Control Board 

EXHIBIT L 

September 9, 2015 


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Hon. HAL ROGERS, Chairman, Hon. NITA LOWEY, Ranking Minority Member, 

House Appropriations Committee; 

Hon THAD COCHRAN, Chairman, Hon. BARBARA MIKULSKI, Ranking Minority 

Member, Senate Appropriations Committee; 

Hon. KEN CALVERT, Chairman, Hon. BETTY MCCOLLUM, Ranking Minority 

Member, House Interior Appropriations Subcommittee; 

Hon. LISA MURKOWSKI, Chairwoman, Hon. TOM UDALL, Ranking Minority Member, Senate Interior Appropriations Subcommittee. 

Dear Chairman Rogers, Chairman Cochran, Chairman Calvert, Chairman Murkowski, Ranking Minority Member Lowey, Ranking Minority Member Mikulski, 

Ranking Minority Member McCollum, and Ranking Minority Member Udall: 

The catastrophic wildfires engulfing western states this summer are further proof 

of the need for Congress to support the management of our nation’s forestlands in 

a collaborative effort of Federal agencies, industry and the local residents most directly affected by these fires. 

The National Association of Conservation Districts (NACD) represents the nation’s 3,000 conservation districts and their governing boards. Established under 

state law, conservation districts are local units of government charged with carrying 

out natural resource management programs created or adjusted based on local 

needs. Conservation districts are directly connected to local populations and landowners. 

Conservation districts work with Federal, state, Tribal and other local agencies 

to provide technical assistance to landowners and other partners to address natural 

resource issues. With respect to forests and grasslands, conservation districts are involved in a wide range of activities, including non-industrial private forest management, wildfire prevention and fuels reduction, biomass production and utilization, 

forest pest management, wildlife habitat management and urban forestry. 

Recently, the Okanogan Conservation District proved to be an invaluable resource 

for assisting FEMA and state and Federal land management agencies for rapid 

emergency response during the 2014 Carlton Complex Fire in Washington. The district assisted with the identification and evaluation of priority areas in need of immediate recovery, and provided conservation for both private and public lands. The 

2015 fires far surpass the area burned in 2014 and conservation districts are already formulating plans to deal with the aftermath. The Emergency Watershed Protection Program (EWP) will be a crucial part of those plans and funding limitations 

must not stand in the way of program delivery. 

It is critical that Federal policies support the uninhibited flow of vital information 

between agencies and partners that will allow natural resource concerns to be addressed, private and public property protected and all life, especially human, fully 

cared for. 

Along with dozens of other forestry and conservation organizations, NACD has offered its support of the Wildfire Disaster Funding Act (H.R. 167, S. 235, S. 1645), 

which aims to limit the impact wildfire spending can have on the funding of agency 

programs designed to improve forest health conditions. NACD fully supports increased funding for wildfire prevention, management and restoration of our public 

forests and rangelands; legislation that expedites analysis required by the National 

Environmental Policy Act; policies and budgets that allow conducting effective prescribed fire, pre-suppression activity and silvicultural treatments; and increased 

pre- and post-fire grazing on at-risk public lands. 

We ask for passage and full funding of the Wildfire Disaster Funding Act in addition to increased funding for programs that can be used to reduce fuels such as the 

Chiefs Joint Landscape Restoration Partnership, the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) and the EWP. These programs are critical to providing the 

necessary resources to bring about significant change on a landscape level. 

Sincerely, 

LEE MCDANIEL, 

President, 

National Association of Conservation Districts. 


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SUPPLEMENTAL

Washington Forest Management: Success Versus Federal Failure 

The CHAIRMAN. Thank you, sir. 

I am pleased to recognize Dr. Topik, for 5 minutes. 

STATEMENT OF CHRISTOPHER TOPIK, PH.D., DIRECTOR, 

RESTORING AMERICA’S FORESTS, NORTH AMERICA REGION, 

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY, ARLINGTON, VA 

Dr. TOPIK. Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, and Ranking 

Member. I greatly appreciate you having the hearing. 

The Nature Conservancy has a long and extensive history of 

working with both good and bad fire. We focus on science-based 

conservation action with many collaborators, to help make communities safer and fire-resilient. 

I believe that working together, we can turn around the current 

negative fire trends that put our communities, our infrastructure, 

lifelines, our clean water, our wildlife, and our great outdoors all 

at risk. It won’t be easy and it won’t be fast. 

I am going to talk about three things today. First, we need to fix 

the wildfire funding. Second, we need to expand opportunities for 

communities to become fire-adapted. We haven’t talked about that 

enough. And we need to implement the National Cohesive Wildland 

Fire Management Strategy. 

So first, we need to fix the way Federal firefighting is funded. 

This should be done like other major disasters; not out of the operating accounts that we need to care for our lands and waters. And 

this can be done now with the Wildfire Disaster Funding Act, and 

it shouldn’t be tied to other issues. Without success here, everything else is at risk. The Wildfire Disaster Funding Act is the one 


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proposal that can access the disaster funding cap, it minimizes impacts from fire borrowing, and it addresses the increasing cost of 

emergency firefighting over time that the Chief talked so much 

about. 

The current Federal budgeting system is broken. It prevents decent business practices at our agencies. The uncertainty of funding 

and amounts, timing, and fund withdrawals has large impacts. The 

emergency fire funding shortfalls also harm key projects. Not to 

pander, but for instance, in the East about 56 million board feet 

of timber was impacted by loss of marking contracts and agreements in Fiscal Year 2013. In Pennsylvania, road repair, invasive 

species treatment, timber stand improvement, wetland restoration, 

erosion control projects were canceled or delayed. And I just 

learned that on the Allegheny National Forest, certain specific 

Hemlock Woolly Adelgid protection projects were canceled, and 

some vital research on decline of black cherry was halted due to 

emergency fires sucking up the Federal resources. In New Mexico, 

we know that hazardous fuels management, road decommissioning, 

oil and gas trails, and land acquisition projects have all been canceled. 

Well, second, the most cost-effective and undervalued solution to 

harmful fire is structured engagement within and among the communities that are at risk. It is essential to help develop local skills 

and visions for communities to protect themselves and their surroundings. Different places will have different needs, and different 

cultures will generate different solutions. Very modest investment 

by Federal, states, Tribes, industries will yield much more fire-resilient communities. Community mitigation and homecare actions 

can have huge benefits. For example, the analysis of the Waldo 

Canyon fire in Colorado by the Insurance Institute for Business 

and Home Safety. 

I especially want to do a shout out for the relatively new but immensely promising Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network. 

In just 2 years, it is helping 17 places, ranging from small communities to huge cities like Austin. It helps local people figure out 

what they need to do to deal with fire, and its national network 

brings best practices and lessons learned to a wider application 

faster. Soon, this network will expand, and I hope it does a lot 

more. 

And finally, way too much discussion on the Hill is focused on 

timber harvest as the solution to the fire problem. We know that 

many of the most damaging fires have been in woodlands, brush 

chaparral, and areas that are not even suitable for commercial timber. For instance, the Valley fire destroyed 1,958 structures in California last month, and cost close to $60 million to suppress. And 

many of the most deadly and impactful fires have been in southern 

California, chaparral and woodlands, where forestry is not relevant, but defensible space creation is essential. 

And forest thinning is certainly important in needed areas where 

it can reduce fire danger, especially when followed by controlled 

burns, but it is one of many solutions. There is a good plan that 

we should implement; that is, we all need to get the governments 

at all levels in the U.S., with industry and private sectors, to fund 

and implement the three legs of the Cohesive Strategy. First, that 

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includes resilient landscapes, fire-adapted communities, and safe 

and effective fire response. But right now, fire response in America 

commands nearly all the available resources. As a nation, we don’t 

seem to hesitate to respond in massive fashion during immediate 

emergencies, but we are not good at funding preparedness and 

mitigation that we all know has a great return on investment. I do, 

however, want to commend the U.S. Fire Administration and DHS 

for some exciting recent progress. But, however, the imbalance that 

we see prevents us from taking the community-based steps that are 

needed, and it doesn’t allow us to properly manage forests, shrub 

lands, grasslands with good fire and good forestry. We need Federal investments in collaborative forest landscape restoration and 

other proactive land management projects, as well as investments 

in science to yield faster and more effective treatments. 

Greater Federal involvement in cost-share projects with states 

and Tribes, as well as county and local governments will yield 

greater results, and the shared decision-making reduces conflict. 

I hope this Committee will work with other Committees of jurisdiction to establish new ways of increasing community capacity to 

engage in this new collaborative stewardship. 

Again, please, three things. Pass the Wildfire Disaster Funding 

Act, implement and fund our National Cohesive Strategy that is 4 

years in the making, and expand opportunities for our communities 

to be better adapted and durable to fire. We at the Conservancy 

are happy to work with the Committee and any others to help formulate new ways to incentivize partner investments for healthy 

forests and watersheds. 

Thank you very much. 

[The prepared statement of Dr. Topik follows:] 

PREPARED STATEMENT OF CHRISTOPHER TOPIK, PH.D., DIRECTOR, RESTORING

AMERICA’S FORESTS, NORTH AMERICA REGION, THE NATURE CONSERVANCY, 

ARLINGTON, VA 

Using Natural Solutions and Community Engagement To Reduce Damaging 

Impacts of Wildfire in the United States 

I am pleased to be here today to discuss the current fire season, and more importantly, what actions citizens and the Congress need to take to change the current 

outlook of damaging long-term trends. I want to thank Chairman Thompson and 

Ranking Member Lujan Grisham for inviting The Nature Conservancy (TNC) to 

participate in this hearing. 

Personal Background: My name is Christopher Topik; I am the Director of The 

Nature Conservancy’s Restoring America’s Forests Program. The Nature Conservancy is an international, nonprofit conservation organization working around the 

world to protect important lands and waters for people and nature. Our mission is 

to conserve the lands and waters upon which all life depends. I have been working 

on forest ecology, management and policy full time since 1980 and since 1995 I have 

been deeply involved at the national level on fire management policy and funding 

issues. A key feature of my work on the Hill for 15 years involved fire issues, including efforts to enhance the hazardous fuels reduction, devise and implement the National Fire plan in 2001, the FLAME Act of 2009, the Joint Fire Science Program, 

and numerous oversight hearings and foster independent investigations on fire policy and practice. 

For the past 4 years I have had the honor and great experience of working for 

The Nature Conservancy throughout the United States. My specific project features 

thirteen large scale forest restoration partnership efforts with the USDA Forest 

Service and many others that touch down in 23 states. I have had the opportunity 

to visit all of these sites and to examine in some detail how collaborative methods 

can foster community engagement that provides the basis for forest restoration and 

accomplishments on the ground, benefiting people, water and wildlife. I also work 

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closely with the Fire Learning Network, a 12 year partnership led by The Nature 

Conservancy but including hundreds of partners, and the recent offspring, the Fire 

Adapted Communities Learning Network. Also of note to this hearing, for the past 

3 years I have served on the USDA Federal Advisory Committee (FACA) for Implementation of the National Forest System Land Management Planning Rule as a 

conservation or watershed organization representative. I also have been involved 

with and deeply committed to the National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management 

Strategy, which I believe offers the greatest hope to get all levels of government to 

work together for a balanced, science driven cohesive effort to deal with good and 

destructive fire in the U.S. 

Introduction: No doubt others at today’s hearing will discuss the damaging aspects of the current fire season and the projections for continued fire stresses in the 

future. We are already experiencing longer fire seasons, more frequent drought and 

extreme weather, heavy fuel loadings due to past over-zealous fire suppression, and 

the suburbanization of our wildlands putting more people and infrastructure at risk. 

I want to use my short time here today to discuss steps that can help turn around 

the current negative trends we are seeing that affect budgeting, community safety 

and the continued provision of clean water, wildlife and our outdoor open space. In 

short, I believe that citizens, society, and governments can foster greater use of natural solutions to learn to live with fire and to reduce catastrophic fire. But this 

takes commitment, including funding at all levels of government and industry, to 

perform strategic actions that make our communities and fire-prone lands fire resilient. I also am concerned that much of the previous discussion on the Hill has focused too much on timber harvest as the solution to the fire problem when we know 

that the tremendously damaging fires experienced have been largely in woodland, 

brush, and areas that are not suitable for commercial tree harvest, such as the Valley fire which destroyed 1,958 structures in California last month and cost close to 

$60 million to suppress. 

• Today I will begin by urging Congress to reform the way that fire suppression 

is currently funded; absent that fix, other actions will continue to be more challenging and less likely to succeed. 

• Then I will discuss the need to fund and implement the National Cohesive 

Wildland Fire Management Strategy by all governmental levels, and the opportunities to engage more sectors to devise innovative projects and support. 

• Finally, I will discuss administrative techniques to enhance the efficiency and 

scale of fire risk reduction projects and the need for the use of more ‘‘good’’ fire 

to reduce mega-fire risk. This includes community engagement and investment 

in proven techniques to network fire adapted communities. 

I. Need for Fire Suppression Funding Fix 

Fire response is the only kind of natural disaster that consumes regular Federal 

agency appropriations thereby limiting operations on our vast Federal public lands. 

The current fire suppression funding model and cycle of transfers and repayments 

has negatively impacted the ability of Federal and state agencies to implement conservation activities. If we don’t fix the current inadequate system for funding fire 

suppression, we will continue to have many barriers to the cooperative and cohesive 

work that is needed to make communities and lands safer and fire resilient. 

The USDA Forest Service (USFS) and Department of the Interior (DOI) are the 

two entities responsible for Federal fire suppression. Fire suppression funding levels 

are currently based on the previous 10 year average of suppression costs. The 10 

year average includes early years when suppression levels were lower and recent 

years when suppression costs have been very high. For example, in Fiscal Year (FY) 

2004, $597 million was allocated to suppression by these two departments, and in 

FY 2015, $1.6 billion was allocated, but the Forest Service required an additional 

$700 million to cover emergency needs. State fire suppression expenditures doubled 

from 1998 to 2014 to $1.6 billion. And this does not include the additional $1.4 billion these Departments spent in FY 2015 in the preparedness accounts to support 

the fire staff and apparatus. The result is that (with ground conditions worsening, 

climate change, and increased populations moving closer to forests) the Federal 10 

year average does not provide the levels necessary for actual emergency suppression 

needs. However, when suppression money runs out, both the USFS and DOI have 

authority to transfer funds (also known as ‘fire borrowing’) from within their budgets to make up for the shortfalls, impacting non-suppression programs. Unfortunately, the cost of suppression has significantly increased, leading to transfers on 

an almost annual basis. The transfers lead to canceled and delayed projects impacting overall agency budgets and programs, including many conservation programs 

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rowing will occur impacts the efficiency of government actions and can halt 

partnering and shared fire risk reduction projects from happening during the small 

windows of time available. 

I do not advocate that we stop fire suppression activities. The values of nature 

and people deserve and require that we take appropriate fire suppression actions 

during fire emergencies. Certainly care needs to be exercised regarding fire suppression costs, but protecting life and property are the key requirement of government. 

I do think there is an unrealized opportunity to manage fire incidents so where safe, 

benefits of wildfire can accrue. This may or may not save immediate money on the 

suppression end, but it certainly will reduce costs of fuel treatments and also reduce 

future fire risk. 

Currently, the USFS and DOI are impacted in two ways, at the front end and 

back end of the fiscal year. As suppression costs continue to rise, USFS and DOI 

budgets remain relatively flat. Therefore as more funding is allocated to the 10 year 

average for suppression, less is allocated to all other areas of the USFS and DOI 

budgets. Programs are short-changed at the beginning of the budget process as more 

is allocated to suppression and less to the programs. As an example, the 10 year 

average at the USFS increased $115 million from FY15 to FY16. That added funding comes out of the hides of other programs in the Interior and Related Agencies 

Appropriations budget. In 10 years, suppression is projected to increase another 

$700 million per year. 

And yet, as the 10 year average for suppression consumes more of the USFS and 

DOI budgets, it remains insufficient to fund suppression through the end of the fiscal year. As the USFS and DOI flex their transfer authorities, programs are hit 

again when their budgets are transferred from to make-up for the suppression 

shortfall. In many cases, even the threat of transfer has impacts—when the agency 

is directed to stop spending—can halt important agency activities. There are dozens 

and dozens of examples of the negative impacts of these fire transfers, for example: 

• In the East, approximately 56 million board feet of timber was impacted by loss 

of marking contracts and agreements in FY 2013. 

• In Pennsylvania, roads repair, invasive species treatment, timber stand improvement, wetland restoration, and erosion control projects were canceled or 

delayed, and visitor requests and needs were not met due to the delayed hiring 

of recreation positions resulting in postponed planned recreation programs and 

projects in FY 2012. 

• In New Mexico, hazardous fuels management, road decommissioning, and land 

acquisition projects were canceled in FY 2012. In FY 2013, oil and gas, Continental Divide trails, and land acquisition projects were delayed or canceled. 

In most years, transfers are repaid through an emergency supplemental. However, oftentimes this does not translate into projects ‘‘picking up where they left off,’’ 

and the repayments are often redirected to other projects. This past year the Forest 

Service had to transfer $700 million from non-suppression programs. I do thank the 

Congress for the recently enacted short-term Continuing Resolution for FY 2016 

that includes an emergency supplemental repayment for those transfers. 

Emergency supplementals are not always used to repay transfers. Over $1 billion 

of transfers from FY 2012 and FY 2013, combined, came off the top of the following 

Fiscal Years’ (FY 2013 and FY 2014) Interior appropriation bills, leaving less for the 

remaining agencies and programs funded by the Interior appropriations bill. What 

was a strain only to DOI and USFS became a strain on all agencies and programs 

funded through the Interior appropriations bill. 

This cycle of ineffective fire suppression funding is inefficient and unsustainable. 

I urge the Congress to pass the bipartisan Wildfire Disaster Funding Act (H.R. 167, 

S. 235, WDFA) to break this cycle and guarantee up-front funding for firefighters 

while reducing the need to transfer funds from non-suppression accounts. 

The solution to fire funding must be three-fold and include: 

1. access disaster funding, 

2. minimize impacts from transfers, and 

3. address the increasing costs of suppression over time. 

The purpose of disaster funding is to provide assistance for ‘‘expected’’ disasters, 

like hurricanes, floods, and tornados. Like for these types of disasters, there is an 

expectation for fire funding needs. The argument can therefore be made that fire 

response be funded similarly to other natural disasters in order to reduce inefficiencies within agency budgets. On a yearly basis, the USFS and DOI plan for a wildfire 

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pacts to other agency programs, including the very ones—like restoration and hazardous fuels reduction—that would reduce the risk and cost of fire activities. 

The Wildfire Disaster Funding Act (WDFA) was introduced in the 113th Congress 

and reintroduced at the very beginning of the new 114th Congress. It is the most 

bipartisan piece of legislation offered so far in this entire Congressional session and 

now has well over 100 cosponsors in the House. WDFA aims to improve the fiscal 

planning for expected disasters by funding a portion of Federal firefighting through 

a budget cap adjustment to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act 

of 1985, as amended by the Budget Control Act of 2011. This would relieve the 

USDA Forest Service (USFS) and Department of the Interior (DOI) from the increasing costs of suppression and the impacts that result from transfers when suppression funding is exhausted before the end of the fiscal year. WDFA provides the 

three-fold solution necessary to solve fire funding: (1) access disaster funding, (2) 

minimize impacts from transfers, and (3) address the increasing costs of suppression 

over time. 

II. Need for Balanced Implementation of the Three Legs of the Cohesive 

Strategy 

The National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy (Cohesive Strategy) 

is the most meaningful way to get all layers of government, finally, working together: including cities, counties, states, Tribes and our Federal Departments of Agriculture, Interior, Defense and Homeland Security. This is vital because impacts of 

fire affect most aspects of life in our country, including our water supplies, the air 

we breathe, the recreational open space that we cherish, our wildlife and fish, and 

vital wood products that are needed by society. The Nature Conservancy is deeply 

engaged in these issues at the national policy level. We are also engaged in many 

projects at the state and local levels that help get work done on the ground, and 

help train communities and broaden the constituency for conservation action. 

The Cohesive Strategy action plan was the result of an intense 4 year, multi-government level collaboration that produced an action plan in April of 2014. All levels 

of government, especially Congress, need to provide resources and engagement to 

make this work. If implemented and supported, disaster cost will be reduced, while 

enhancing many other benefits to society and nature. 

The Cohesive Strategy has three goals: 

• resilient landscapes, 

• fire-adapted communities, and 

• safe and effective fire response. 

Currently, most governmental resources and attention go to fire response in the 

form of fire suppression. This work is vital to protect people and resources. Yet, as 

discussed above, these emergency actions have largely over-shadowed the need for 

the other two legs of the Cohesive Strategy stool. I fear the United States now has 

a very unstable programmatic ‘stool’, with one very long leg for fire suppression and 

two very short legs for the vital work to make communities and landscapes more 

fire resilient and safer. Congress, the states, Tribes, counties and cities, working 

with citizens and using science, need to increase funding and attention to implement a more balanced approach to fire management in America. 

The work to restore and maintain resilient landscapes is at the heart and soul 

of The Nature Conservancy’s activities. We’ve been performing controlled burns for 

more than 50 years on our properties. We have tremendous experience in this 

arena. Since 1988 The Conservancy has burned over 2 million acres safely. The Conservancy values fire as a conservation tool and as a means to reduce the risk of 

damaging fires and reduce the incidence of mega-fires. The Conservancy for over 12 

years has run the Fire Learning Network in cooperation with the Forest Service and 

the Department of the Interior (http://www.conservationgateway.org/fln). The Fire 

Learning Network is a terrific program that helps bring together science and stakeholder engagement skills to create enabling conditions for the restoration of fire 

adapted ecosystems. Also, my project, ‘‘Restoring America’s Forests’’ includes 13 

major forest demonstration sites that touch down in parts of 23 states. We are working with local partners including the Forest Service and the Interior Bureaus to 

tackle, solve, and share methods on some of the prickliest issues in forest management. We also work hard on the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program, a key effort to implement new methods of forest and fire management with 

citizen involvement. 

The second part of the Cohesive Strategy, enhancing fire adapted communities, 

is also a vital area where we help withstand fire losses and help communities learn 

to live with fire. The stated goal of members of the Fire Adapted Communities 

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Learning Network (http://facnetwork.org) is ‘‘to help society live safely with wildfire.’’ This program is discussed in greater depth below. 

The third part of the Cohesive Strategy, fire response, means more than just better firefighting; it also means enhanced ability to manage wildfire to get beneficial 

result from events while protecting key infrastructure. It’s also important for fire 

response that we and many others work with communities before emergencies, so 

they know what to expect when fire emergencies happen. This is a key part of community engagement. It’s vital we all, including NGOs like TNC, stay engaged and 

help communities and help all the myriad layers of government work together. All 

taken together, this is what’s needed for us to help accomplish common, locally 

based visions that will help protect communities, enhance our environment and 

habitats, and our watersheds to continue to provide natures bounties of water, air, 

wildlife, open space, and various products. 

III. Innovative Funding at State and Local Levels for Risk Reduction 

Projects 

The fire problem is an issue that needs much more than a Federal response. 

There are many opportunities for states, Tribes, counties, cities and the private sectors to increase their collaborative work to enhance both the wildlands that surround them as well as enhance community fire resistance and forest resilience. TNC 

is committed to partner and collaborate across the country to help build coalitions 

needed to create new state and local sustainable revenue streams to improve forest 

health and protect water supplies in order to meet society’s growing demands for 

water. I believe the Wildland Fire Leadership Council, a formal body that includes 

all levels of government, has the ability to encourage and foster greater action that 

invests in projects, local building and community guidelines or codes, and pooled resources to reduce fire danger in the long term. 

Many industries are negatively impacted by fires and they should consider increasing their roles in risk reduction. For instance, just last week I participated in 

a disaster forum here in the House, sponsored by the Property Casualty Insurers 

Association. The insurance industry has a long history of successful involvement in 

various risk reduction actions. So it is encouraging that they are looking to increase 

their engagement in the wildfire issue. Similarly, there are great opportunities for 

tourism and recreation, and all industries and agriculture that require healthy, sustainable sources of fresh water. Banking and electric utilities are also threatened, 

let alone the 44 million people at risk that live in wildland/urban interface and 

intermix. Currently, fire trends are a major stressor to water, especially in the arid 

regions of the West where water sources are in the forested mountains that are at 

risk of catastrophic fires. 

The Rio Grande Water Fund, discussed by our TNC staffer Laura McCarthy at 

this Committee’s hearing on April 29, 2015, is another excellent way of creating 

partnerships to generate innovative solutions to prioritize work and deliver additional funding for fire risk reduction, forest improvement, and water security efforts. 

IV. Efficient Forest and Fire Management 

There is a lot that can and must be done to increase efficiency at all levels of government action despite the shortage of funding and resources required to do fire risk 

reduction and community safety projects. I think we need careful analysis to see 

where forestry projects and other actions are needed and will have a greater return 

in investment to reduce fire risk. I believe that there are many areas where forest 

conditions are unhealthy, especially in the fire driven, lower elevation pine forests 

of the West, South and Southeast. The model of extensive forest thinning to reduce 

fire risk is appropriate in some places, but there are more areas, at higher risk of 

fire, where it is not applicable. We should not get too distracted from the need to 

provide defensible space and community safety as the best way to deal with fire in 

many areas, especially many highly populated ones. 

The Agricultural Act of 2014 included a provision to provide enhanced authorities 

for the Forest Service in areas where insects and disease may be a concern. I very 

much would like to see how that authority, and others, can foster larger scale and 

scope projects before we remove the public input and science based analysis currently required for forestry projects under the National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA). 

I also see a lot of opportunities to use existing authorities with much more intensity to foster more large, cross boundary projects. There may also be legislative opportunities to increase the use of large scale NEPA projects that provide the analysis and clearances for many projects over wide areas. This could act similar to programmatic NEPA in many areas where forest thinning, followed by controlled fire, 

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tailed environmental analysis provision of the NEPA can be used more broadly 

where the landscape and impacts are well understood and previous and ongoing 

monitoring demonstrate the efficacy of the treatments. Categorical exclusions should 

not be given just for the good intent of project proponents; there needs to be clear 

and transparent triggers, including public involvement and sound science, before 

fast tracking projects. I think investment in monitoring would also lead to better 

future projects, informed by previous results, and this then can be used to foster 

faster, bigger and more effective work in the future, including the use of programmatic scale and categorical exclusion for routine work. 

My work on the USDA Federal Advisory Committee (FACA) sanctioned National 

Advisory Committee for Implementation of the National Forest System Land Management Planning Rule has shown me how the new forest planning regulation for 

the Forest Service can lead to better integration of projects and community needs 

for fire resistance. Forest plans guide all activities for at least 15 years, so they offer 

a direct way to involve the public in ascertaining where and when work needs to 

get done on the ground with the greatest impact to the broader landscape, including 

towns and watersheds. We need to encourage local governments, especially counties 

and Tribes, to engage in the forest planning process and use it to reduce fire risk 

to nature and communities. 

Climate change is exacerbating the fire problem as our forests are becoming 

warmer, drier and subject to both more extreme weather events and longer fire seasons. The Forest Service itself expects severe fires to double by 2050, according to 

the U.S. Global Change Research Program. The third biggest fire year since 1960 

was in 2012, with 9.3 million acres burned—the Forest Service is estimating 20 million acres to burn annually by 2050. This year so far over 9 million acres have 

burned and October historically has featured devastating fires in California. We are 

already seeing these impacts: the Four Corners region of the Southwest has documented temperature increases of 1.5–2° Fahrenheit over the last 60 years. 

The recent comprehensive climate science synthesis for the U.S. Forest Sector 

suggests that, whereas currently forests sequester fully thirteen percent of the nation’s fossil fuel carbon emissions, trends in forest cover loss due to fire, urbanization and other impacts will make forests a net emitter of carbon by the end of the 

century. This is another major reason why society should invest in keeping forests 

as forest. Besides all the historical and substantial benefits of forests mentioned 

above, maintaining forest cover is probably one of the most cost effective ways our 

nation has to mitigate climate change simply by helping forests adapt and become 

more resilient. 

V. Learning To Live With Fire: Need for Better and More Use of Safe Fire 

It is clear from most of the fire science and social science literature that fire is 

a key part of nature, and will continue to be such despite human efforts to stop it. 

Much of North America includes natural ecosystems where fire plays a necessary 

and normal role so species and the environment are fire adapted. As we occupy and 

alter more and more of the landscape, we also must learn to live with natural processes and use them for our benefits. Different ecosystems need different types of fire 

to remain healthy. Likewise, the human-created infrastructure in these varying 

types of wildlands require different strategies if they are to continue to coexist with 

nature. 

In those areas where the cultural use of fire was not lost or where it has been 

reestablished we have a much greater chance of minimizing destructive mega-fire: 

this includes some southern areas dominated by longleaf pine and increasingly, 

areas of shortleaf pine in places like Arkansas. Other pyrogenic landscapes, such as 

the chaparral or brush of extensive areas in California and surrounding states will 

most certainly burn at some time. And they can burn explosively. So defensible 

space, sufficient ingress/egress routes and burning during windows of safety are essential. 

There are also millions of acres of dry forests, especially in the western pine zone, 

where our previous over-zealous and successful fire suppression has led to extensive 

areas of overstocked forests that can burn explosively. Many of these areas would 

benefit from strategic forest thinning, followed by careful burning, to return them 

to the frequent, low intensity fire regimes that dominated for thousands of years before the 20th century and fire suppression. The Forest Service estimates that there 

are about 11 million acres in the National Forest System that are not in reserved 

areas or municipal watersheds that would benefit from strategic thinning and burning. I encourage those here today to focus on these areas that are a known priority 

rather than pursue more general demands to increase timber harvest everywhere, 

unless it is needed for other social or ecological needs. 

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I also encourage the Committee to look at examples of successful programs that 

are teaching people how to live with fire while increasing community understanding 

and cohesion. The Fire Leaning Network (http://www.conservationgateway.org/fln) 

fosters collaboration for restoration and integrated fire management (with an emphasis on controlled burning) in landscapes across the country. This modest program helps stakeholders learn how to work with each other, while also benefiting 

from being in a national network that increases knowledge-sharing and generates 

new ways of doing business. 

Much of the discussion on the Hill lately has focused on big ticket ways to fight 

fire better, such as more airtankers, or on enhancing extensive forest treatments by 

decreasing or eliminating environmental or legal review. I firmly believe that greater investment and encouragement of these programs that enhance human interaction and understanding are much more cost-effective. This summer the Forest 

Service alone spent a record $243 million in a single week during the massive fire 

build up. This is probably 50 times the total annual investment made for social 

science guided efforts that help communities protect themselves. I suggest a more 

balanced portfolio would be cost effective and result in both healthier ecosystems 

and communities. 

Another well-understood need is the need for more controlled burns in fire-prone 

ecosystems. Almost everyone agrees that more healthy fire on the landscape, from 

grasslands, to brush lands, and to forests would be beneficial. There have been substantial increases in recent years, yet we are having a hard time making dramatic 

increases in acres treated. The scale of treatment is not even close to being commensurate with the need for restoration and maintenance. Besides the clear need for 

more controlled burns on all ownerships of fire-prone lands, we also need to be more 

aggressive about using wildfire events, where safe, to increase acres treated. Fire 

use is not without risks, but if leaders and society better understood the benefits, 

we could implement much more healthy and low impact burning. I am encouraged 

by the desire of the Wildland Fire Leadership Council to take on the issue of smoke 

management so that we can better understand the trade-offs between suffering from 

smoke during controlled conditions versus during catastrophic and enduring fire 

events. 

VI. Need for Community Engagement 

The most cost effective and under-valued solution to harmful fire is structured engagement of communities at risk. It is essential to develop local skills and local visions for how communities should take action to protect themselves and their surrounding wildlands. Different places will have different needs and differing cultures 

will, and should, generate different solutions. As a nation we don’t hesitate to respond in massive fashion during immediate emergencies, but we are not so good at 

funding the preparedness that we all know has a great return on investment. It is 

encouraging that the U.S. Fire Administration is taking a more holistic view of fire 

preparedness and hazard mitigation; other governmental bodies and industries 

should do the same. 

A relatively new example of a cost effective program is the Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network (http://facnetwork.org). This program is just 2 years old 

but it already involves 17 geographic sites, ranging from small communities in the 

wildland matrix to huge cities, like Austin, Texas. The purpose of the network is 

to significantly accelerate the spread and adoption of concepts and actions that will 

help communities help themselves become better adapted to fire. 

The values of the Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network are: 

• Adaptation is critical to a positive future. 

• Collaboration and partnerships are keys to successful adaptation. 

• Investment in local-level capacity, partnerships and responsibility yields the 

best outcomes. 

• Supporting the coordinating function within communities is essential to 

leveraging the range of resources, institutions and individuals necessary to 

build fire adapted communities. 

• Investing in learning across communities and geographies is a strategy that 

works at multiple scales, including: 

» Facilitating the adoption of best practices and innovations; 

» Building a community-of-practice to fuel inspiration and innovation; 

» Aggregating lessons learned to advise the design of programs and policies in 

support of fire adapted communities; and 

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» Leveraging lessons learned to inform policy and resource allocation, as appropriate. 

VII. Conclusion 

I want to first thank the Agriculture Committee for holding this hearing. This 

Committee serves as a model for how bipartisan, calm and rational discussion can 

lead to better legislation and results for Americans. I also want to call on this Committee to pass the Wildfire Disaster Funding Act. It is not useful to hold up passing 

this key budgetary solution because of the desire of some to link it to reductions 

in environmental review. I hope that Congress can enact the fire suppression budget 

fix that is widely supported (WDFA) and then figure out how to make communities 

more engaged and also facilitate bigger and better projects on the ground. 

There has been so much good work by multiple levels of government on the National Cohesive Wildland Fire Management Strategy that it is a shame that we 

don’t figure out how to make its implementation more balanced. We know that the 

preparedness actions of making landscapes more fire resilient and helping make 

communities more fire adapted are cost effective and cheaper than the devastation 

of uncharacteristic wildfires. Direct engagement of communities, with assistance, 

will make the greatest difference. 

Our top three priorities for the Congress to reduce wildfire threats to nature and 

people: 

1. The Wildfire Disaster Funding Act. (H.R. 167) 

The current system of funding fire preparedness and suppression at the expense 

of hazardous fuels and other key programs threatens to undermine—and eventually 

overtake—the vital management and conservation purposes for which the USDA 

Forest Service and Department of the Interior bureaus were established. 

The current wildfire suppression funding model and cycle of transfers and repayments has negatively impacted the ability to implement forest management activities. The agencies and first responders need a predictable, stable, and efficient budget structure to deliver their Congressionally directed land management missions. 

The Conservancy supports the bipartisan Wildfire Disaster Funding Act (H.R. 

167), which would provide the Forest Service and the Department of the Interior 

with a funding structure similar to that used by other agencies that respond to natural disasters, through a disaster cap adjustment. This important change would free 

the agencies to reinvest in core activities which have been reduced in recent years 

due to a continued shift of limited resources to fund wildfire suppression, including 

the very programs that would help to decrease wildfire costs over time. Further, this 

change would significantly reduce the highly disruptive process of canceling and/or 

significantly delaying ongoing project work, most often at the time such work is 

being executed on the ground. 

2. Investments in Forest and Watershed Risk Reduction 

It is essential that the Congress and the Administration increase Federal investments to reduce fire risk in a manner that makes forests more resilient and resistant to fire and other stressors. Strategic, proactive hazardous fuels treatments have 

proven to be a safe and cost-effective way to reduce risks to communities and forests 

by removing overgrown brush and trees, leaving forests in a more natural condition 

resilient to wildfires. Similarly, investments in Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration and associated proactive Federal land management programs, as well as investments in science will yield faster and more effective landscape forestry treatments. Strategic mechanical fuels reduction in wildlands, combined with controlled 

burning to reduce fuels across large areas, can significantly reduce the chance that 

mega-fires will adversely impact the water supply, utility infrastructure, recreational areas and rural economic opportunities on which communities depend. 

3. State and Community Assistance and Incentives for Shared Work 

All levels of government need to work together with citizens and industries to 

achieve the kind of forest conditions that benefit all Americans. Greater Federal involvement in cost-share efforts with the states and Tribes, as well as with county 

and local government will yield much greater results than the sum of the parts and 

the shared decision making will reduce conflict and litigious delays. This Committee 

should work with the other Committees of jurisdiction to establish new ways of increasing community capacity to engage in this new, collaborative forestry. We would 

be happy to work with the Committee on formulating new, better ways of 

incentivizing partner investments in healthy forests and watersheds. 

The CHAIRMAN. I thank the gentleman. 

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I am pleased now to recognize Chief Litzenberg for 5 minutes of 

your testimony. Please go ahead and proceed, Chief. 

STATEMENT OF ERIK J. LITZENBERG, FIRE CHIEF, SANTA FE 

FIRE DEPARTMENT, SANTA FE, NM; ON BEHALF OF 

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE CHIEFS 

Mr. LITZENBERG. Well, good morning, Chairman Thompson, 

Ranking Member Lujan Grisham, I bring my regards from New 

Mexico, and Members of the Subcommittee. 

Today, I am testifying on behalf of the International Association 

of Fire Chiefs, where I serve as the Chairman of the Wildland Fire 

Policy Committee. And I thank you for the opportunity to discuss 

the 2015 fire season, and the needs of America’s fire departments. 

We have heard some statistics, which I won’t recount, but I will 

bring some new ones to the table, and that is that local fire departments respond to almost all wildland fire incidents. For fires on 

Federal lands, they cooperate with the U.S. Department of the Interior and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s U.S. Forest Service. Local fire departments provide the initial attack for nearly 80 

percent of all wildland fires. This assistance by local governments 

totals more than $36 billion per year, according to the U.S. Forest 

Service. On non-Federal property, local fire departments are the 

first to respond, and often the last to leave the incident. 

The IAFC has been a strong supporter of the Cohesive Strategy, 

which brought together local, tribal, state, Federal, and non-governmental partners, many of whom are in this room, to address the 

wildland fire problem. Through a multiyear, three-stage process, 

the Cohesive Strategy outlined a plan to tackle wildland fire 

through fire suppression, community preparedness, and land management. Similarly, the IAFC has several recommendations for 

Congress in these same areas. First, Congress must support the 

fire suppression efforts through effective funding and equipment 

procurement policies. The IAFC is greatly concerned about the 

practice known as fire borrowing, in which DOI and U.S. Forest 

Service are forced to shift funds from non-suppression accounts to 

suppression accounts, after expending their annual wildland fire 

suppression funding. This dangerous practice only serves to worsen 

the fire problem by limiting important prevention and mitigation 

projects. Congress must address this problem by developing a funding reform proposal that prohibits fire borrowing, and funds 100 

percent of the 10 year average of suppression costs. Any costs 

above 100 percent of the 10 year average should be funded through 

an adjustment to the disaster relief cap. Additionally, any savings 

must be directly reinvested in wildland fire prevention and community preparedness programs. 

In addition to funding reform for the USDA and DOI, Congress 

must also address declining Federal support for local wildland fire 

operations. Since Fiscal Year 2010, Congress has reduced funding 

for the Volunteer Fire Assistance Grant Program by nearly 20 percent, from $16 million in 2010, to $13 million in 2015. Additionally, 

in Fiscal Year 2010, Congress eliminated the Rural Fire Assistance 

Grant Program which further helped budget-strapped fire departments obtain the equipment they need. In July, the House unanimously adopted an amendment to increase VFA grant funding to 

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$14 million in Fiscal Year 2016. We encourage Congress to include 

this funding increase in any Fiscal Year 2016 appropriations bill. 

The IAFC also encourages Congress to support fire department 

preparedness by ensuring that we have the tools and equipment 

that we may need. The U.S. Department of Defense and USDA 

jointly run two programs which allow fire departments to utilize 

and, in many cases, purchase access vehicles and other equipment 

from the DOD. These programs were suspended by the DOD, and 

then restarted in 2014 over concerns about emission regulations. 

The IAFC strongly encourages Congress to protect these commonsense programs by passing H.R. 177, the Firefighter Equipment 

Protection Act. 

Number two, to assist in developing fire-adapted communities, 

the IAFC urges Congress to support outreach and education efforts. 

Since 2011, the IAFC has developed and expanded the Ready, Set, 

Go Program, which educates communities on a way to be ready for 

fires, set if the need for an evacuation arises, and go when it is 

time to evacuate. Ready, Set, Go has been implemented by more 

than 1,500 fire departments across the nation, and provides a 

strong platform for fire departments to engage with their communities to ensure they are prepared and knowledgeable about the 

dangers of wildland fires. Other organizations also are involved in 

actively implementing community preparedness and education programs, and we encourage Congress to support Ready, Set, Go, and 

other programs, to address this important aspect of wildland fire 

prevention and mitigation. 

And last, Congress must address land management issues as a 

long-term solution to the wildland fire problem. The dangerously 

dry conditions through the West and the Southwest states, prime 

wildland areas for fires, underscores the need to complete hazardous fuels removal projects and other land management programs. By improving the health of our lands, we can address some 

of the larger wildland fire factors. Congress also must pay particular attention to the watersheds where wildland fires can cause 

especially dangerous consequences for drinking water and surrounding communities as a whole. It is certainly something we recognize in all of the West. 

In addition to these land management policies, Congress also 

should pass H.R. 1009, the Wildfire Prevention Act of 2015, which 

would permit recipients of fire management assistance grants to 

use up to 15 percent of the grant amount for post-wildland fire 

mitigation projects to prevent flooding, landslides, and other dangerous conditions caused by wildland fires. 

Thank you again for your continued attention to this important 

issue, and the opportunity to attend this hearing. Thanks again. 

[The prepared statement of Mr. Litzenberg follows:] 

PREPARED STATEMENT OF ERIK J. LITZENBERG, FIRE CHIEF, SANTA FE FIRE

DEPARTMENT, SANTA FE, NM; ON BEHALF OF INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIRE

CHIEFS

Good morning, Chairman Thompson, Ranking Member Lujan Grisham, and Members of the Subcommittee. I am Erik Litzenberg, Fire Chief for the Santa Fe, New 

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1 U.S. Forest Service. The Rising Cost of Wildfire Operations. 2015. http://www.fs.fed.us/ 

sites/default/files/2015-Fire-Budget-Report.pdf. 

mittee. Thank you for the opportunity to discuss the 2015 wildland fire season and 

the needs of America’s fire departments. 

In 2014, wildland fires impacted every state in the nation. There were more than 

63,000 wildland fires in the United States. They burned roughly 3.6 million acres. 

These fires cost the Federal Government over $3.9 billion to extinguish in Fiscal 

Year (FY) 2014. 

Local fire departments respond to all wildland fire incidents. For fires on Federal 

lands, they cooperate with the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) and the U.S. 

Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) U.S. Forest Service (USFS). Local fire departments provide the initial attack for nearly 80% of all wildland fires. The USFS estimates that local fire departments provide more than $36 billion per year in wildland 

fire suppression assistance. On non-Federal property, local fire departments are the 

first to respond and the last to leave the scene. 

The IAFC has been a strong supporter of the National Cohesive Wildland Fire 

Management Strategy since it was first initiated several years ago. The Cohesive 

Strategy brings together all relevant local, state, Tribal, Federal, and non-government entities. These partners have worked together to release recommendations on 

addressing the wildland fire problem through three areas of focus: supporting fire 

suppression, developing fire-adapted communities, and establishing effective land 

management policies. 

Today I would like to discuss these focus areas from the perspective of a local fire 

department: 

(1) Federal Fire Suppression Funding: The growing cost of wildland fire suppression is an important issue which Congress and the Administration must 

address. As you are likely well aware, almost every year, the cost of wildland 

fire suppression exceeds the appropriated amounts in the USDA’s and DOI’s 

wildland fire management accounts. In 1995, fire suppression made up 16% 

of the USFS’ budget. In 2015 however, fire suppression has made up more 

than 50% of the USFS’ budget. The USFS estimates that if no action is taken, 

fire suppression will make up more than 67% of its budget in 2025.1

As a result, the USDA and DOI are forced to undertake a practice known 

as ‘‘fire borrowing,’’ where funds are transferred from non-suppression accounts to fire suppression accounts. The IAFC is greatly concerned that this 

is a dangerous practice. Fire borrowing is a short-term solution with severe 

long-term consequences. Mitigation projects such as hazardous fuels removal 

could help address the wildland fire problem; however, these are often the 

first to be cut when funds need to be transferred. 

The IAFC encourages Congress to develop a bipartisan funding reform proposal which will prohibit fire borrowing and fund the USDA’s and DOI’s 

wildland fire suppression accounts at 100% of the 10 year average cost of 

wildland fire suppression. Any suppression activities above the 10 year average should be funded from an adjustment to the disaster relief cap. Additionally, Congress must ensure than any savings generated by this reform are directly re-invested into wildland fire prevention and community preparedness 

programs. We believe that these principles will ensure that there is adequate 

funding for increases in fire suppression operations in the future while not 

cannibalizing funding from hazardous fuels removal and other programs that 

will mitigate the risk of wildland fires. 

(2) Declining Federal Support for Local Wildland Fire Operations: While 

local fire departments play a major role in responding to wildland fires, they 

must address the challenge of responding to this growing threat with reduced 

resources. For example, the National Fire Protection Association released 

their most recent needs assessment of the United States’ fire service in 2011. 

This study found that 68% of fire departments that are responsible for 

wildland firefighting have not formally trained all their personnel involved in 

wildland firefighting. 

Currently, the Federal Government operates just one grant program to 

maintain training and equipment for all local fire departments which respond 

to wildland fires. The VFA program is administered by the USFS and provides funds through the individual state foresters to organize, train, and 

equip fire departments in rural communities with a population of 10,000 or 

less. Fire departments receiving a grant must pay for at least 50 percent of 

the project being funded. The VFA also increases the opportunity for rural 

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fire departments to acquire equipment through the Federal Excess Personal 

Property (FEPP) program. The VFA grants are usually limited to a few thousand dollars per recipient in order to assist the maximum number of fire departments. 

Congress has reduced funding for the VFA grant program by nearly 20% 

from a high of $16 million in FY 2010 to $13 million in FY 2015. In July, 

the House unanimously adopted an amendment to the FY 2016 Department 

of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act (H.R. 

2822) to increase VFA funding to $14 million. While the IAFC urges Congress 

to ultimately return VFA to its FY 2010 funding level of $16 million, the 

IAFC encourages Congress to include this amendment into any Interior or 

omnibus appropriations bills for FY 2016. 

Previously, the DOI operated another grant program known as the Rural 

Fire Assistance (RFA) program. These grants provided volunteer fire departments with grants of up to $20,000 for training, equipment purchase, and 

prevention activities. Fire departments receiving RFA grants would have had 

to serve a community of less than 10,000 people near Federal land; pay for 

at least ten percent of the project being funded; and have had a mutual aid 

agreement with the local DOI agency or with the state. The RFA grants generally were funded at approximately $10 million per year, until Congress 

eliminated the RFA grants in FY 2010. The elimination of these grants placed 

a significant burden on fire departments around the nation, because it eliminated a major source of funding. 

(3) Excess Equipment for Fire Departments: The U.S. Departments of Defense (DOD), in cooperation with the USDA, operates two programs which 

allow local fire departments to obtain and utilize vehicles and equipment 

which the DOD deems to be in excess. The FEPP program allows fire departments to purchase a wide range of excess vehicles and equipment from the 

DOD. Similarly, the Firefighter Property (FFP) program allows fire departments to borrow a wide range of vehicles and equipment to supplement their 

own resources. These successful programs were suspended in 2014 due to concern that the DOD exemption from vehicle emission standards did not cover 

vehicles in the FEPP and FFP programs. These programs were resumed several months later when it was clarified that the vehicles maintain their exemption when utilized under the FEPP and FFP programs. The IAFC urges 

Congress to support the Firefighter Equipment Protection Act (H.R. 177) 

which codifies the determination that FEPP and FFP vehicles continue to be 

exempt from vehicle emissions regulations. 

The IAFC also encourages Congress to protect the FEPP and FFP programs 

while reviewing the various DOD programs which place excess property with 

localities across the United States. Vehicles and equipment sourced through 

the FEPP and FFP programs can be found in fire departments in every state. 

(4) Supporting Fire-Adapted Communities: As more communities grow and 

develop into the wildland urban interface (WUI), it becomes all the more important that these communities are knowledgeable and prepared for wildland 

fires. Since 2011, the IAFC has developed and expanded the Ready, Set, Go 

(RSG) program to teach communities how to be ‘‘ready’’ for wildland fires, 

‘‘set’’ if the need to evacuate arises, and to know how to ‘‘go’’ when it is time 

to evacuate. RSG has been implemented in more than 1,500 fire departments 

across the United States and provides a strong platform for fire departments 

to engage with their communities on the topic of wildland fire preparedness. 

While RSG has been particularly effective, it is important to note that other 

organizations also are involved in community preparedness and education 

programs of their own. Congress must continue to support these efforts to create fire-adapted communities across the United States. Preparing and educating communities will continue to be an important aspect when addressing 

the larger wildland fire problem. 

(5) Developing Efficient Land Management Policies: Healthy lands are 

much less susceptible to burning than overgrown lands with hazardous fuels. 

If we do not develop and implement effective solutions today, then the problem will become even larger in the future. Forest health and dry land conditions are two of the strongest contributing factors to the growth of wildland 

fires. Congress must continue supporting hazardous fuels removal and other 

forest health projects. The continued drought and extreme heat throughout 

the western and southwestern states further compounds this problem and 

primes lands for wildland fires. The extremely dry conditions underscore the 

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importance of taking pre-emptive actions where possible to ensure properly 

maintained lands. 

Special attention also must be given to address the importance of implementing efficient land management policies in watershed areas. Many watershed areas are at risk of wildland fires which could present significant negative impacts to the drinking water for surrounding communities as well as 

placing those communities at risk of flooding and other serious post-wildland 

fire emergencies. 

Congress also can strengthen communities by developing policies to protect 

them from the dangers of post-wildland fire emergencies. Following a 

wildland fire, the remaining soil is left highly-susceptible to erosion, landslides, flooding, and other natural hazards. The Federal Government currently provides little funding to support community efforts to protect against 

these hazards. The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Fire Management Assistance Grant (FMAG) program allows funding to support wildland 

fire response. However, these funds are only available for controlling and extinguishing fires. 

The IAFC supports modifying the FMAG program to support post-wildland 

fire mitigation efforts such as re-planting trees and vegetation, installing 

flood barriers, and other projects to mitigate dangerous post-wildland fire 

land conditions. To accomplish these reforms, Congress should pass the Wildfire Prevention Act of 2015 (H.R. 1009) which would permit FMAG recipients 

to receive up to 15% of the FMAG amount for post-wildland fire mitigation 

projects. This language also was included in the FEMA Disaster Assistance 

Reform Act of 2015 (H.R. 1471). 

Thank you again for the opportunity to attend this hearing and for your continued 

attention to this important issue. It is important to recognize that we have a national cohesive strategy for addressing the wildland fire problem, due to Congressional leadership. As part of that strategy, local fire departments continue to play 

an important role in our nation’s response to wildland fire incidents. However, we 

need Congress to continue defending important programs that help fire departments 

obtain the funding and equipment to protect their communities. Congressional support for expanding community preparedness programs such as RSG and establishing 

land management policies also are important components to addressing the 

wildland fire problem. The IAFC looks forward to continuing to work with this Subcommittee on this critical issue. 

The CHAIRMAN. Chief, thank you so much for your testimony. 

Colonel Priddy, we are honored to have you here, and go ahead 

and proceed with your 5 minutes of testimony. 

STATEMENT OF COL RONALD N. PRIDDY, (RET.), DIRECTOR OF 

GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS, 10 TANKER AIR CARRIER, 

ALBUQUERQUE, NM 

Mr. PRIDDY. Thank you, Chairman, Ranking Member Lujan Grisham, and Members of the Committee. 

Let me personally start with thanks to Fire Chief Tidwell. The 

company, from its very thoughts of protecting the nation, if you 

will, from wildfires has worked with the Forest Service as partners, 

yes, we are contractors, but we are also partners, and partners 

with the troops on the ground as well. 

Thus far, in the 2015 fire season, 10 Tanker has flown more than 

400 missions, delivering approximately 41⁄2 million gallons of suppressant, sometimes called retardant, specifically where our ground 

commander requested, and also, as demonstrated by lead airplanes, 

for the most part we fly behind lead airplanes. We have flown on 

more than 80 wildfires. 

As has been discussed, the statistics are fairly well known and 

presented, by the way, nifc.gov as far as number of fires and things 

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ity of air, water, homes destroyed, businesses destroyed, et cetera, 

et cetera. 

So while this research is ongoing, and it absolutely has to be 

well-funded, then we feel that our professional firefighters on the 

ground already know what works best in a given situation for the 

foreseeable future. For air tanker operation, that experience calls 

for suppressant and sufficient quantity, at the right place as directed, and at the time to support our ground troops, our firefighters, if you will. 

Now, as far as the future is concerned, we feel like suppression 

from fixed-wing aircraft is where improvement of equipment can 

occur. And I would point out, I agree, Forest Service needs many 

tools, helicopters were mentioned earlier on, but again, we are 

stressing fixed-wing and specifically large air tankers, such as the 

proposed newly manufactured C–130J, but also the very large air 

tankers. And that is what we are designated because we fly four 

times as much suppressant in one mission as anyone else. And we 

have a designation by the Forest Service, and we are the only very 

large tanker out there. 

The Forest Service has funding and has put out an RFP for a 

newly manufactured air tanker, and because of the details in that, 

we are certain it will be a Lockheed C–130. I flew C–5s and 141s. 

I have great respect for Lockheed. 

Now, that concept will be government-owned, contractor-operated. So what we have done recently is we have told our partners 

at Forest Service we believe that concept should be expanded to the 

C–130 because, while it is not a newly manufactured airplane, a 

thoroughly overhauled DC–10 air tanker can be delivered to the 

Forest Service very efficiently and in a timely manner, and be serviceable for decades to come, and at approximately 1⁄3 the cost. Each 

will provide 31⁄2, four times as much as a C–130J or any other 

tanker that is likely to come about in the future. 

More, sooner, safer, cheaper, that is what we bring to the defense 

of the nation, and we are very proud to do so. 

Thank you very much for letting us testify. 

[The prepared statement of COL Priddy follows:] 

PREPARED STATEMENT OF COL RONALD N. PRIDDY, (RET.), DIRECTOR OF

GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS, 10 TANKER AIR CARRIER, ALBUQUERQUE, NM 

1. Background 

a. 10 Tanker Air Carrier Brief History 

In 2001, the founders of 10 Tanker Air Carrier (the Company) organized to explore the government’s need to modernize the aerial wildfire fixed wing airtanker 

fleet. Over the 5 years that followed, the Company worked with the U.S. Forest 

Service (USFS) and the other agencies of the National Interagency Fire Center 

(NIFC) and commercial industry participants to both define and develop a better 

airtanker tool. Being private investors who had decades of experience in air carrier 

operations and aircraft modifications, the Company listened to the fire professionals 

and integrated that knowledge base into what was to become a model of fixed wing 

‘‘Next Gen’’ specifications. 

Much of the discussions with USFS and others were focused on how to upgrade 

and improve aircraft known as Large Air Tankers (LATs) that could carry loads of 

up to 3,000 gallons of fire suppressant. It became clear that load capacity, aircraft 

performance, safety margins, and delivery consistency were paramount metrics. 

Why the DC–10? In exploring the issues with agencies of the NIFC, including the 

USFS and the Department of Interior (DOI), and others, the Company determined 

that under basic wildfire suppression concepts the need is for a more effective initial 

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airtanker attack on small fires to preclude expansion into a large wildfire that 

threatens the nation’s public and private lands. Of prime importance, there is a 

need to preclude large fires in the urban interface where private homes will be destroyed. Most fire agencies believe sufficient resources to gain early control is both 

effective and cost effective. That means more suppressant, and the sooner the better. 

The DC–10 fuselage is high enough above the ground to permit external tanks with 

an 11,600 gallon capacity—3.5–10 times the drop capacity of any other airtanker operating. The tanks deliver any liquid suppressant, including water, if retardant is 

not readily available or is not desired. With the drop tanks full of suppressant and 

the fuel tanks filled to permit 3 hours of airborne operations, the DC–10’s superior 

power-to-weight ratio permits operations at all altitudes and in all terrain. The DC– 

10’s performance assures safer flight operations, while its capacity requires fewer 

flights, further enhancing safety. Operating from established or temporary tanker 

bases, the 10 Tanker team can land, reload and get airborne for additional drops 

within 20 minutes, which coupled with jet speed is sooner to the fire with more suppressant to gain early control of the fire. Finally, once any smaller LAT on contract 

today or is likely to operate in the future is ordered to ‘‘load and return’’, meaning 

a second flight by that smaller airtanker, the single flight of the 10 Tanker DC– 

10 with three-or-more times the capacity is far cheaper, thus less of a burden on 

the state and Federal budgets. 

As the italicized words above indicate, the Company developed the DC–10 

airtankers to provide a wildfire response that is ‘‘More, Sooner, Safer and Cheaper’’ 

than any other large airtanker operating today or any that is likely to operate in 

the foreseeable future. After investing tens-of-millions of dollar of private capital on 

design, engineering, and aircraft modification, the Company received a Normal Category (not Restricted Category) supplemental type certificate (STC) from the Federal 

Aviation Administration (FAA) and also earned a FAA operating certificate under 

14 CFR Part 137 in 2006. Subsequently, the Company demonstrated acceptable suppressant drop coverage for the USFS Laboratory in 2006. Upon receiving Interagency Air Tanker Board (IAB) approval the DC–10 was deemed by the USFS to 

be a capable airtanker and was labeled as a Very Large Air Tanker (VLAT). 

b. 10 Tanker Air Carrier 2015 Operations 

Thus far in the 2015 fire season, 10 Tanker has operated more than 400 missions 

on 80 or more fires in western states. It would have required approximately 1,500– 

2,000 missions by other LATs. In ten fire seasons, 10 Tanker has operated more 

than 1,700 missions on more than 300 active wildfires. Thus, fire commanders are 

now well aware of our superior capabilities and are now specifically calling for the 

DC–10 more often for its significant effectiveness. 

c. 10 Tanker’s Current Fleet 

10 Tanker currently operates three FAA and Forest Service certified DC–10–30 

airtankers. In the first Next Generation Airtanker contract (NextGen 1.0) awarded 

in 2013, 10 Tanker was awarded a long-term ‘‘exclusive use’’ contract for one DC– 

10 airtanker and was the first of the companies awarded to begin active suppression 

operations that year. In Sept. 2015, 10 Tanker was awarded a contract for an additional DC–10 under the ‘‘NextGen 2.0’’ contract. 

2. 10 Tanker Air Carrier Position on the 2015 Fire Season and Long-Term 

Trends 

a. The 2015 Fire Season 

In 10 Tanker’s view, fire seasons are becoming longer, hotter and more dangerous 

than ever before. As the drought in western states continues, the deteriorating conditions of the trees and other plants are providing ideal fuels for large wildfires. 

Thus, the time to respond is growing shorter and shorter before an uncontrolled fire 

becomes a large or mega-wildfire. Fires are now out of control for weeks, not just 

days. Given even a moderate wind, even a spark on the grass may end up being 

a large wildfire out of control within just a few hours. That leaves very little time 

for local residents and government agencies to respond. 

As a result of these conditions, through September 25, almost 49,000 wildfires 

have scorched more than 9 million acres. At this time in a fire season that is not 

over, the number of fires is the most since 2011. The acreage burned is the most 

since 2006. More than 2 million acres were burned in August 2015 alone, the third 

worst destruction for that month in history. As noted above, 10 Tanker has flown 

more than 400 missions on more than 80 wildfires this season, whereas in a similar 

period in 2014 we flew only 234 missions on 59 fires. Additionally, as a result of 

the current continuing spread of wildfires, 10 Tanker and other contracted airtanker 

operators are being kept on duty through the month of October. 

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b. Current and Future Wildfire Requirements 

Research is always a factor in looking towards the future. However, while there 

has been significant research in the past 10 years, much of the research that appears valid fails to be vetted with industry and is unlikely to be implemented. The 

Company is aware that the USFS has an on-going research effort to determine 

which aerial firefighting aircraft available now and in the foreseeable future is the 

most effective. The Company has asked USFS to share its findings with it and others as soon as possible. 

As numerous studies have seemingly failed to produce useable models, 10 Tanker 

believes that experience trumps quantification due to the many variables involved 

in controlling a large fire. Thus, the Company’s position is that (1) detection, (2) 

command and control, and (3) suppression and containment are three distinct elements, each of which deserves the best training and equipment. 

On the suppression front the ‘‘First Strike’’ practice of bringing More resources 

Sooner to All fires to catch them Before they emerge should be rigorously adopted 

and enforced. When large fires are burning out of control, fire managers still need 

to provide tactical support to ‘‘point’’ protection efforts. The quantity of retardant 

carried by the DC–10, and the quality of the line it produces, makes this a particularly good asset for All wildfires and for multiple drops on different corners of the 

fire on the same mission. 

Note: These assets require preemptive funding, not catch-up budgeting. 

10 Tanker agrees that the USFS and agencies of the NIFC need multiple tools. 

This should include helicopters, single engine air tankers (SEATs), large air tankers 

(LATs) and proven VLATs. Due to the worsening wildfire forecast, the More, Sooner, Safer, Cheaper concepts described above are the keys to supporting our ground 

forces in managing wildfires better in the future. 

The puzzle that the Federal Government partners have been struggling with is 

how to meet those essential concepts in a manner that is most effective, thus in the 

greatest public interest. At a meeting in February 2012, the USFS informed industry partners that they intended to contract or acquire approximately 30 next generation airtankers. Of those, the USFS clearly stated their intent to acquire 7–10 newly 

manufactured aircraft to meet those needs. Subsequently, USFS has awarded two 

contracts to industry partners for 14 of the next generation air tankers and has 

issued a Request for Proposals (RFP) for a newly manufactured airtanker. 

Concerning the newly manufactured airtanker, in the FY 2015 appropriation, the 

Forest Service requested funding for a newly manufactured airplane to be used in 

the aerial firefighting mission. Congress provided that, ‘‘of the funds provided, 

$65,000,000 shall be available for the purpose of acquiring aircraft for the next-generation airtanker fleet to enhance firefighting mobility, effectiveness, efficiency, and 

safety, and such aircraft shall be suitable for contractor operation over the 

terrain and forested-ecosystems characteristic of National Forest System lands, as 

determined by the Chief of the Forest Service.’’ Thus, the Forest Service issued an 

RFP for a newly manufactured aircraft that could meet the wildfire suppression capabilities for the future and to also meet a requirement to provide air mobility of 

cargo and/or passengers. The RFP also specifies a government owned, contractor operated (known as GOCO) concept. The USFS subsequently held an Industry Day 

meeting on August 26, 2015, to explain the details of the RFP to interested companies; to clarify that the future contract would provide capability to increase the 

numbers of those new aircraft as evaluations and budgets permit; and they hosted 

individual company sessions to permit companies to comment. 

While 10 Tanker Air Carrier and other attendees do not represent the capability 

to produce a newly manufactured aircraft, the Company did receive an individual 

company session. While not objecting to the details of the RFP that would eliminate 

all others except the Lockheed C–130J, the Company did recommend to the USFS 

that newly manufactured Government-Owned, Contractor Operated (GOCO) aircraft 

should only be Part of the mix of future airtanker assets. For example, additional, 

thoroughly overhauled More, Sooner, Safer, Cheaper DC–10 airtankers, while not 

newly manufactured aircraft, could be delivered to USFS in a very efficient manner. 

More specifically, the costs incurred to acquire six (6) DC–10s modernized to complement the needs of future airtanker operations are approximately equal to that 

of two new 130Js. Each DC–10 will bring more than three times the suppressant 

capability of a C–130J, and each of the six DC–10 airtankers can be delivered in 

6 month intervals. Production and delivery of these DC–10 airtankers can be via 

the GOCO concept. Thus, the Company believes that the needs of firefighters on the 

ground would be much better served by adding some highly effective DC–10’s to get 

the Primary Mission (suppression) better accomplished. In so doing, the cost will 

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be about 1⁄3 that of any given number of newly manufactured airtankers, with an 

effectiveness that is 3.5 times or better. 

Of the four criteria stated in the RFP for the aircraft to be acquired—suppression, 

logistics, personnel transport, and use by other government agencies, the DC–10 

would offer payload and range advantages to complement the new aircraft and provide a fleet of significantly greater value to the government and the public. 

Thank you for this opportunity to testify. 

RONALD N. PRIDDY, 

Director, Government Affairs, 

10 Tanker Air Carrier. 

The CHAIRMAN. Colonel, thank you so much for your service and 

thank you for your testimony. 

Thanks to all the panelists for testifying. We are going to proceed 

with 5 minutes of questioning. And I am going to reserve my time, 

and so I would recognize Mr. Benishek, from Michigan, for 5 minutes. 

Mr. BENISHEK. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 

I have a few questions. Let me start with the Fire Chief. Chief, 

how is the coordination between the Forest Service and the local 

fire people, I mean how does that work? Are you familiar with 

that? 

Mr. LITZENBERG. If you are asking for an anecdotal answer, I will 

tell you that the fire service as a whole feels like the U.S. Forest 

Service is a good partner and that the coordination is relatively effective. Our mutual partnership comes from the fact that all of us 

have the same mission, which is the protection of our communities. 

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feel like we have a good relationship with our U.S. Forest Service 

partners, and, therefore, the communication is quite solid. 

Mr. BENISHEK. Okay, thanks. 

Dr. Topik, Mr. Haeberle talked about the Spotted Owl problem 

and the way it has changed the whole situation out West. Does the 

Endangered Species Act need to be revised, it seems to me that 

some of the things that he mentioned has led to overall degradation of the habitat. I don’t know, there is a lot of controversy about 

that whole thing, but can you give us your perspective on this and 

what this one species has done to a bunch of other species? 

Can you kind of weigh-in on that for me because I am kind of 

curious? 

Dr. TOPIK. Yes, I will try. Sort of the curse of an ecologist, I was 

trained as a forest ecologist, is that you want to understand the 

specific ecology of the habitats, and when you are dealing with the 

Cascade Mountains, and I worked in the Cascades for many, many 

years, you have tremendous variation in climates, going from very, 

very dry areas to rainforests, sometimes in just 10 miles. And so 

that is something you have to remember. You are going from climates like from Canada to Mexico in just a small area. 

So the Northern Spotted Owl becomes a particular challenge on 

the fire issue when you get onto the eastside forests that Mr. 

Haeberle was talking about, on the Wenatchee side, where you do 

have areas that are very dense forests that used to be more sparse. 

They used to have the—— 

Mr. BENISHEK. Yes. 

Dr. TOPIK.—fire model that we have heard about was more common. So there is a real challenge, what I see sort of as the short 

answer that could go into long, wonky answers, the short answer 

is that we need to balance the positive aspects of fire risk reduction 

from doing the kind of thinning that Mr. Haeberle talked about, 

versus the potential maybe short-term impact on a particular nest 

site. And so that is something that is real important that when we 

interact with these laws, that we balance the plus and the 

minuses. 

Mr. BENISHEK. I don’t think it works quite that way though. 

Dr. TOPIK. I think there are more and more opportunities for 

that. And so that is what I would look for in guidance; to be able 

to suggest, for instance, if these things do get to courts, that we 

balance—— 

Mr. BENISHEK. Okay. Well, let me go on to another question 

here. What could the Federal Government or the Forest Service do 

to help motivate more groups to partner and collaborate with the 

Forest Service on some of these stewardship issues? 

Dr. TOPIK. Well, there are a bunch of things, but one thing specifically. I believe that the ability of small amounts of money from 

the Forest Service, but also from industries and others, to help get 

community organizers and facilitators to figure out what is needed 

locally, the kind of stuff that our Fire Adapted Communities Learning Network is doing. You would see tremendous benefits because 

then that can be a way of bringing in resources and interests from 

lots of different people. I mean some of these areas where we have 

studied, for instance, in the Northern Sierras, the benefits of very 

guided thinning can have tremendous benefits to downstream 

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water users, and have a big impact on agriculture, positive impact, 

and a big impact on—— 

Mr. BENISHEK. One of the things that we talk about in Congress 

is making the local community more of a part of the Forest Service 

decision-making process. Would you be in favor of—— 

Dr. TOPIK. Yes. I—— 

Mr. BENISHEK.—something like that? 

Dr. TOPIK. That is what we believe in. And our group, The Nature Conservancy, is definitely engaged in that. And having the collaborative kind of model where the local community works together, and you have to remember that there are going to be downstream users that—— 

Mr. BENISHEK. Right. Right. 

Dr. TOPIK.—in the Northwest, maybe water users 200 miles 

away, they can’t be forgotten, and the recreation industries, places 

like the Northwest, huge recreation industries, those are important 

players too. But that is a key part; to have more people helping 

guide the actual projects, definitely. 

Mr. BENISHEK. And people from the area that the project is actually taking place in. 

Dr. TOPIK. Yes, the people from the area have to be key players, 

but it also, as a national resource, needs to take—— 

Mr. BENISHEK. Does that occur now to some degree? 

Dr. TOPIK. Absolutely. The specific example mentioned is the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program, which has separate legislation, separate money; $40 million a year, I wish it was 

more, for 23 spots. And some of those are some pretty neat 

projects. We don’t have any, unfortunately, in Michigan. We have 

some wonderful ones in Arkansas. It would be great if you could 

ever see those. 

Mr. BENISHEK. All right, I am out of time, sorry. 

The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman’s time has expired. 

I am pleased to recognize the Ranking Member for 5 minutes. 

Ms. LUJAN GRISHAM. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 

I am going to go to Colonel Priddy. And I appreciate very much 

your description that we want all the tools, it is not one kind of 

fire suppression system over another, but recognizing that our fires 

are hotter and last longer, we are really dealing with mega-fires, 

mega-wildfires. And in that context, really being clear that we 

want every opportunity, and that has been the theme of every one 

of our expert witnesses, that we have to have a multimodel management aspect that moves us away from fire borrowing, and gives 

us the opportunity to manage at the front end and the back end. 

Can you elaborate just a little more about the benefits as part 

of the tools and resources, these large tanker opportunities, so that 

you can address these mega-fires? 

Mr. PRIDDY. Thank you. First of all, we would hope that initial 

attack works. And by the way, we have done initial attack a number of times. We can make multiple drops on the same mission, so 

we have literally surrounded four, five drops and taken care of the 

initial attack. 

We are most often called because of the process. We are most 

often called after a fire has expanded well beyond that. And I don’t 

want to say large fire, because that is defined as 100,000 acres or 

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more, and we get called, obviously, before that. But the best way 

we can help after that is downwind and/or uphill from the fire, 

have the ground commander place us in a retardant line, block the 

fire, not put it out, block the fire. We produce more than 50′ wide, 3⁄4 of a mile long. That is about four bulldozer’s width, or something 

like that. And then that gives the ground forces the opportunity to 

bring those bulldozers or their other tools in there and expand that 

blockage, such that—— 

Ms. LUJAN GRISHAM. And—— 

Mr. PRIDDY.—we now control—— 

Ms. LUJAN GRISHAM. And potentially put us in a position not 

only to manage those fires, but protect the men and women who 

are fighting those fires on the ground to a much higher degree. 

Mr. PRIDDY. Absolutely. That is our passion. 

Ms. LUJAN GRISHAM. Thank you. I am going to my second question which is for Chris Topik. We have been talking a lot about the 

fire borrowing problem and the fact that, given the increased cost 

of fighting these fires, which are increasing in nature for a whole 

variety of reasons that we have discussed today, we can’t keep up 

there, but it is not really an accurate reflection of the true cost of 

wildfires because we aren’t really talking about the recovery aspect. And given your collaborative work, I would like this Committee to be really clear that in terms of protecting the watersheds 

and restoring these communities, and dealing with utilities and 

private property issues, that it is hundreds of millions of dollars 

across the country, and trying to do post-recovery work, but we 

don’t really have a funding system to deal with that post-recovery 

work. 

Can you talk a little bit about that and what some of your ideas 

are to make sure that we are addressing that as well? 

Dr. TOPIK. Yes, thank you very much, Congresswoman. 

Yes, a lot of the conversation often has dealt with the cost of fire 

suppression, which is very large, but we know that the actual impacts are huge. I was present at the fires in San Diego County in 

2003. Very nice graphics presented there that show that the fire 

suppression costs for that fire are about four percent of the total 

negative impact, which was about $700 million. 

Similarly, Ecological Restoration Institute in northern Arizona 

has done some very good work showing impacts across the board, 

losses of water, timber. And in New Mexico particularly, what we 

are very hopeful, and as you know, we had one of our staffers, 

Laura McCarthy, got to talk to this Committee—— 

Ms. LUJAN GRISHAM. Who, I will do a shout-out, is incredible in 

our state. We thank you. 

Dr. TOPIK. She is fabulous. But that work is something that The 

Nature Conservancy and 40 other collaborators, I mean this is including all kinds of industries, the states, the counties, and this is 

what we need. And so you have so much need to get the restoration 

work done, and so what they are doing is working across all these 

boundaries; Federal, state, the pueblos are so important in New 

Mexico, to figure out how we can merge pools of money, because 

we know it is going to have benefits, we know the incredible harm 

that was done to Albuquerque’s water system, the place where people and money reside in New Mexico, and there is a lot that can 

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be done to reduce those kind of impacts. And so they are working 

on a structured governance ability to have different parties, whether you are in the pueblo or the state or the county, or you are in 

an industry down in Albuquerque, to have an input to figure out 

where there is going to be return on investment, which kind of 

projects will have the biggest benefit. 

Ms. LUJAN GRISHAM. I am out of time, and I am going to ask for 

the Committee’s forgiveness. Could you follow up, not in your testimony but in writing to this Committee, about not only the productive impacts of the collaborations, which we all understand, but 

what some of those funding mechanism might be, including to 

maybe erode without creating other unforeseen consequences, the 

ability to move money in places, no more borrowing, but leverage 

it across departments who are part of these collaborations? I would 

be very interested in how we can leverage some of the resources 

we currently have to deal with these unrecovered costs. Thank you. 

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. 

The CHAIRMAN. I thank the gentlelady. 

I now recognize the gentleman from Georgia, Congressman Allen, 

for 5 minutes. 

Mr. ALLEN. Thank you, Mr. Chairman. There we go. Got it. 

Thank you. This is a different room. 

Thank you all for being here today. And, of course, what I hear 

from my constituents is the horrible mismanagement of our forests 

and the contributing factor to not only disease, but also to forest 

fires. 

And I was interested on this Spotted Owl incident. Obviously, 

there was a lawsuit filed to stop the management of that forest 

area. Was it an injunction? Did the judge serve an injunction to 

stop management of the forest, or did the government quit managing it because there was a lawsuit? Does anybody know the answer to that question? 

Dr. TOPIK. Well, I used to live in Oregon so I was right in the 

middle of this overgrown issue in the 1980s. And so just in brief, 

and it is so involved it takes many pages to dictate all the different—— 

Mr. ALLEN. Well, I don’t have much—— 

Dr. TOPIK.—combinations so—— 

Mr. ALLEN.—time, so—— 

Dr. TOPIK. No, you don’t have that kind of time. So there were 

all kinds of different sorts of legal ramifications before the Northern Spotted Owl was listed, and in July of 1990 it was federally 

listed, and so then there were more activities after that that had 

both legal and administrative ramifications. So it is a very complicated history. 

Mr. ALLEN. Yes. Well, I was just wondering if you went ahead 

and managed the forest or were you actually breaking the law. 

And, Mr. Haeberle, I want to apologize to you for the destruction 

that you have had to deal with. And can you elaborate on that? In 

other words, why we couldn’t continue on with the management of 

the forests? Has this thing been worked out in the court system? 

Yes, sir, Mr. Haeberle. 

Mr. HAEBERLE. I can’t necessarily answer that question, but I 

would like to address the first part of your question. 

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Mr. ALLEN. Okay. 

Mr. HAEBERLE. I was an accountant at Biles and Coleman Lumber Company when that issue first came up, and our mills consisted of three different sawmills that were highly dependent on 

National Forest Service timber, and there was an extremely good 

market for that timber, and had been for years and years and 

years. The Spotted Owl controversy reared its head, and those timber sales were addressed by environmentalists, if I could use that 

word, with 37¢ stamps on an envelope that just challenged that 

timber sale, and they were voided. They no longer put those out for 

the mill to even come and bid on. It instantly was over. 

Now, whether it was in a court action, I don’t think so, but I 

think—— 

Mr. ALLEN. It was a decision—— 

Mr. HAEBERLE.—the Forest—— 

Mr. ALLEN.—by the Forest Service not to—okay. 

Mr. HAEBERLE. That is what I believe. 

Mr. ALLEN. Okay. Well, that—— 

Mr. HAEBERLE. Now, somebody else here may know way more 

than that, and I would like to research that—— 

Mr. ALLEN. Right. 

Mr. HAEBERLE.—more to you—— 

Mr. ALLEN. Yes, I think that is—— 

Mr. HAEBERLE.—but that is—— 

Mr. ALLEN.—that—I mean breaking the law is one thing, but 

doing the right thing despite the fact that you have somebody that 

doesn’t agree with what you are doing is a whole other matter. And 

that is what we need to get to the bottom of here. 

Mr. HAEBERLE. Well, the point I am trying to make is the impact 

to the industry was immediate. 

Mr. ALLEN. Yes, right. Well, that is this top-down government 

approach. It is a problem for private industry. 

I was also interested that you lease—you do lease some Federal 

land? 

Mr. HAEBERLE. Yes. 

Mr. ALLEN. Is that working for you, are you able to manage that 

land without all these interferences, and is that maybe an answer 

to some of the collaboration we need to deal with as far as actually 

with the Forest Service not having the resources, should we lease 

more forestland? 

Mr. HAEBERLE. In my particular case, and I can speak for most 

of the lessees in Okanogan County, Forest Service leases are a very 

good thing. The only bad thing about them is the forest not being 

logged, not being thinned, not being cleaned for 40 years now has 

led to a canopy closure of the forest, reducing grass—— 

Mr. ALLEN. I saw that. 

Mr. HAEBERLE.—and increasing fire fuels. And—— 

Mr. ALLEN. So you are not able to manage the forests, although 

you are leasing the forests? 

Mr. HAEBERLE. Correct. 

Mr. ALLEN. Okay. Why would you sign a contract like that? 

Mr. HAEBERLE. Because I want to lease the forage that is on the 

forest. 

Mr. ALLEN. I got you. 

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Mr. HAEBERLE. And through the years, that forage volume has 

disappeared because of the increase in the brush and the debris. 

Mr. ALLEN. Yes. So going back to collaboration, it would be good 

if we could have a meeting of the minds of those folks who lease 

the property on how properly to manage that forestland. 

Mr. HAEBERLE. Absolutely. 

Mr. ALLEN. That would be yes. 

Mr. HAEBERLE. Absolutely. 

Mr. ALLEN. That would be a solution? 

Mr. HAEBERLE. And I know I am prejudiced, but to me, grazing 

those lands is as critical as reducing the timber on those lands—— 

Mr. ALLEN. Exactly. 

Mr. HAEBERLE.—because they both reduce combustible fuels. 

Mr. ALLEN. Well, you folks know how to do it. And like I say, 

we have a 40 percent sustainable rate in our forests, and I am 

proud of the job you all are doing. Thank you. 

Mr. HAEBERLE. Thank you. 

Mr. ALLEN. Hang in there. 

Mr. HAEBERLE. Thank you. 

The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman yields back. 

The gentleman from Washington, Mr. Newhouse, is not a Member of the Subcommittee but has joined us today. Pursuant to Committee Rule XI(e), I have consulted with the Ranking Member, and 

we are pleased to welcome him to join in the questioning of witnesses. Mr. Newhouse, you are recognized for 5 minutes for questioning. 

Mr. NEWHOUSE. Well, thank you, Mr. Chairman, and Madam 

Ranking Member. I appreciate having the opportunity to sit here 

with you. I am a Member of the Agriculture Committee as well as 

the Natural Resources Committee, and as you can imagine, this 

very topic has been a big part of our discussions since January, and 

I am so happy to be here to learn more about what we can do to 

help the health of our forests. 

I did want to take a second, and I will submit some questions 

for the record, but just take a second to thank Chief Tidwell for visiting the State of Washington during the fire season, also for participating and being in attendance at the memorial in Wenatchee 

for the three firefighters that lost their lives. We as a state are still 

mourning their loss, and we appreciated your attendance there. 

I particularly wanted to welcome my constituent, Mr. Haeberle, 

for coming here this morning and enlightening us with your insight, your perspective, your experience of being part of a fifth generation ranch family in Okanogan County is invaluable for people 

here to listen to and to understand. I appreciate your doing that, 

taking the time with some of your colleagues of being here this 

morning. 

I would like to, in relation to that, Mr. Chairman, ask unanimous 

consent to submit for the record a letter I have from 12 counties 

in the State of Washington that are part of what is called the Evergreen Forest County Group. In this, it includes solutions from their 

perspective on how to improve Federal forest management policy 

for—— 

The CHAIRMAN. Without objection. 

[The information referred to is located on p. 87.] 

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Mr. NEWHOUSE. Thank you. 

So in the short time that we have, I would like to, Mr. Haeberle, 

ask you to expound a little bit on your testimony if you could. I 

lived through the Spotted Owl thing as well. I had family that lived 

on the Olympic Peninsula and saw the impact to many communities around the state. I think in your testimony—I did not know 

this, but we had over 90 sawmills in the State of Washington, now 

today we have about 30. You were involved in the forest industry 

at that time, so could you discuss a little bit, and you touched on 

it with Mr. Allen, some of the efforts to protect the Spotted Owl, 

the impact that that had on not only timber production but forest 

health, and in your estimation, how is current forest health compared to what it was 40 years ago? 

Mr. HAEBERLE. Well, in my opinion, most all of what we are talking about here today, as far as our concerns and trying to find 

cures, are the result of 40 years that I have watched of overreaction to a spotted owl, overreaction to repairing in areas, overreaction to what we call wetlands and defining as such today. Because if you look at the impact the Spotted Owl had, part of the 

reason I heard today that we haven’t gotten a good sale for our National Forest timber is because we have lost 60 mills in the State 

of Washington that used to buy that timber. I will also say, with 

my experience with a fairly substantial size mill in Washington 

State at that time, we have to be concerned as we go down the road 

in the future that we don’t over-harvest a renewable resource, 

which timber is. It is a crop, it is a plant, it grows. If we don’t harvest it, it is going to overgrow, and it is going to do what we have 

seen, because we haven’t harvested in Washington for 40 years. 

If we over-harvest it, we are going to create a problem just as 

big on the other side. And for stability in the timber industry, for 

us to be able to sell our National Forest timber, and one of the 

spokespeople here today said it, we have to create an environment 

for that sawmill that is stable, steady, reliable, they can count on 

it. They have to have that volume on a steady basis. It can’t come 

and go. It can’t come and go every time somebody decides there is 

another endangered species. And to me, that is the real, real big 

problem with the Endangered Species Act. All somebody has to do 

is wave their hand, something else is endangered, and then we 

overreact to it for 50 years. And we have done that with the Spotted Owl, without any question in my mind at all. Look at what it 

has destroyed. Everything we are talking about here today is what 

the results of that are. 

Have I answered your question? 

Mr. NEWHOUSE. Yes. I appreciate that. Thank you. 

I see my time has already quickly expired, but I appreciate you 

being here. And it is my goal that we can actually accomplish 

something in this Congress that will help for the long run the 

health of our forests, so thank you very much. 

And thank you, Mr. Chairman. I yield back. 

The CHAIRMAN. I thank the gentleman for joining us today, and 

I appreciate his service on the Agriculture Committee. 

I am going to take the last 5 minutes. 

Mr. Haeberle, I appreciated the opportunity to read your testimony, to talk with you yesterday, we were able to meet briefly, and 

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to hear about the wildfires you experienced firsthand, living with 

that situation over the past 40 years. And it was striking to me— 

I appreciate within your testimony which every Member has, we 

have a couple of pictures. Talk about compare and contrast. 

As we know, we are not going to stop fires, lightning strikes, the 

question is what burns and how quickly those fires are controlled. 

And we are not here to say we are going to stop wildfires; we just 

want to reduce the impact and make it something we can live with 

and we can afford. 

So my first question is for you, and given that wildfires are a reoccurring national crisis, it was striking that you had relayed to me 

anecdotal facts about a bulldozer or a CAT driver who was functioning either on state or private lands, and very successfully reduced the threat of the fire, but was stopped by Forest Service personnel because supposedly that person didn’t have some certificate. 

And which brings to mind, are there tools that we need to be able 

to provide the Chief and the Service that would provide more of a 

safe harbor so that we can use these collaborations, these tools? Is 

our role for state primacy as well in terms of, when it is a national 

crisis, in terms of what rules get implemented, basically to eliminate any barriers that the Forest Service has during those times, 

that would be helpful? 

Mr. HAEBERLE. Last year, the Washington State Legislature, in 

reaction to having dealt with the previous year’s largest fire in 

Washington State history, did pass a law that private contractors 

on state or private land can use their equipment without being 

held in harm. And that has been practiced this year, and it is a 

very successful program. I hope it expands. 

But one of the problems that we have in Washington State is 

that the U.S. Forest Service, if you are a contractor, and I am going 

to use a bulldozer as an example, but you could throw in a whole 

host of other equipment, but if you contract with the U.S. Forest 

Service with a bulldozer, you have to get on a computer, you have 

to go through a lot of hoops and jumps, and bulldozer operators 

that have logged in the forest and have been timber people don’t 

necessarily connect with computers real well. So—and they are 

some of your most talented and very best firefighter people. So 

there is a little bit of a problem there. That is probably 

‘‘overcomeable’’. But if you want to do a U.S. Forest Service contract, that is one thing. If you want to work for the Department 

of Natural Resources of the state, whole other computer program 

and another contract. The two do not coincide. 

So when we get these fires, they don’t have any idea—a fire has 

no idea whether this is Federal land, state land, private land, Indian Reservation, they don’t know. But as that fire moves, if it is 

National Forest, the National Forest wants you to have that contract. If it is state land, they want you to have that contract. Real 

problem there. And in Omak, Okanogan, and these complex fires 

the last couple of years, D–8 bulldozers have gone out and successfully stopped this fire, have been held-up by National Forests when 

they hit their ground, and that is a big problem. 

We need to figure out how to marry all of these different contracts with different ownerships of land. The objective is to fight 

the fire not each other, and—— 

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The CHAIRMAN. Right. 

Mr. HAEBERLE.—and that needs to be solved. 

The CHAIRMAN. Well, having spent a lot of time with the employees within the Forest Service, who are good folks who really care 

and take seriously the responsibility, I could imagine just how frustrated they felt when they had to enforce this bureaucracy when 

they could see the benefits that were occurring on other adjoining 

lands, and yet because we haven’t provided them the right tools, 

they couldn’t let that CAT or bulldozer proceed. That is something 

we need to look at. I appreciate it. 

Dr. Topik, in your testimony, you mentioned that recent discussion on a solution for catastrophic wildfires has focused too much 

on timber harvest. Granted that a significant number of acreage is 

not forest, and noting that many damaging fires occurred in woodland brush and areas not suitable for commercial tree harvest. To 

me, these areas sound like great areas to graze livestock. Would 

that not have helped clear at least some of that hazardous fuels? 

Dr. TOPIK. Yes. I certainly agree that appropriate grazing is a 

good use of the landscape. I support what Mr. Haeberle said about 

that. It really depends on where you are at though. That is what 

I was trying to get at, that in terms of the fire problem itself, there 

is so much that is happening in and around communities, there is 

so much the communities can do. And as Mr. Haeberle said, the 

preparatory work, we know these fires are going to come, and so 

if we can have the communities be fire-adapted, and work together 

to figure out those kind of contracting snafus ahead of time, that 

is something we have seen in parts of California with the California Fire Safe Council, for instance, being able to serve as a 

clearinghouse to get people prepared. So that work at the community level, to make sure you have it in place, is vital. And in particular, in terms of the big damage, a lot of the worst fires this year 

have been right around towns and low elevation. Even in Washington State, many of the horrible, horrible fires have been down 

in the towns. And so there is a lot that needs to be done right there 

also. I mean that is a key part. 

The CHAIRMAN. My time has expired, not that I couldn’t ask 

questions on this topic all day long, but we have a primary election 

we need to get to in terms of leadership. Or maybe they will have 

it figured out until we get there, Mr. Newhouse. 

With that said, I just want to thank all the panelists—— 

Ms. LUJAN GRISHAM. Mr. Chairman, do you need my help? 

The CHAIRMAN. This is one occasion I am not going to yield to 

the Ranking Member. But I will yield for any closing statements 

or remarks you might like to make. 

Ms. LUJAN GRISHAM. I just want to sincerely thank you for holding this hearing. I want you to know that the Chairman and I, 

early in planning the year, talked about the opportunity, if we had 

them, to do field hearings. It is an area that the Chairman has 

gone above and beyond to make sure that the Committee has the 

right leadership, to think about ways to balance our investments, 

to add flexibility so that we are doing everything that we can, not 

only to protect the interests of the community, so thank you, Mr. 

Haeberle, but also looking at ways that affect directly firefighting. 

And I am very grateful for our two New Mexico experts. And I will 

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tell you that the Fire Chief really does work diligently across incredible jurisdictional issues to make sure that we have enough 

men and women on the ground. And I am worried about those 

budgets as well. So there is plenty for us to do. And we appreciate 

your time and attention here today. Thank you. 

The CHAIRMAN. The gentlelady yields back. 

I want to take the opportunity to thank the panelists for your expertise. I think in a little over 2 hours, we have just gotten a tremendous amount of great information. They were very thorough for 

looking at—we have worked hard to try to provide some tools, 

whether it was through the continuing resolution, some of the 

other proposals that are out there, certainly H.R. 2647 which really 

emphasizes collaboratives. I heard that word over and over again. 

And I want to thank Chief Tidwell. We frequently get folks in on 

the first panel who are representatives of the Administration, and 

they normally leave right after their testimony. Chief Tidwell has 

not. He cares. And I am not saying the others don’t, but he demonstrates it by being here to listen to the testimony. And, Chief, 

that is always greatly appreciated. 

I heard a lot of good ideas here—comprehensive ideas. I would 

put them into five different categories. And I may have missed 

something because this was a pretty quick analysis of what we 

talked about today, but I heard about increasing markets. Obviously, getting the value up for our timber of all sides, from saw logs 

to that brush, finding markets for it, increasing value for it. Heard 

about, obviously, the funding needs. We get that. Heard about 

collaboratives and the role that that plays. Also heard about the 

impact of litigation, there are 16 forests that are more vulnerable 

today because of litigation, and we have to ask ourselves why is 

that occurring, is it unnecessary, is it abusive, but that is one of 

those things. I heard a lot about resources and tools, from the size 

of air tankers to tools to be able to compensate for the 49 percent 

reduction in foresters. These are the people with the expertise in 

terms of making sure we can get the job done. Of the tools that 

we have identified, there are certainly some we need to look at. It 

is inexcusable that we would place on our Forest Service personnel 

an obligation to turn effective help away when it is at the boundary 

of the forest. And much more. And much more within this testimony. And it is just greatly appreciated. 

I want to thank everybody. I want to thank the staff for their expertise and their leadership in helping us on both sides of the aisle 

of bringing this together. 

Under the rules of the Committee, the record of today’s hearing 

will remain open for 10 calendar days to receive additional material, and supplementary written responses from witnesses to any 

questions posed by a Member. 

This Subcommittee on Conservation and Forestry hearing is now 

adjourned. 

[Whereupon, at 12:18 p.m., the Subcommittee was adjourned.] 

[Material submitted for inclusion in the record follows:] 

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1Preparedness, Suppression, FLAME, and related programs. 

SUBMITTED REPORT BY HON. SUZAN K. DELBENE, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS

FROM WASHINGTON

The Rising Cost of Fire Operations: Effects on the Forest Service’s Non-Fire 

Work 

U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Forest Service 

August 4, 2015 

Overview 

Over 100 years ago, President Theodore Roosevelt established the U.S. Forest 

Service to manage America’s 193 million acre National Forests and Grasslands for 

the benefit of all Americans. Today, that mission is being consumed by the everincreasing costs of fighting fires. 

This report documents the growth over the past 20 years of the portion of the Forest Service’s budget that is dedicated to fire, and the debilitating impact those rising 

costs are having on the recreation, restoration, planning, and other activities of the 

Forest Service. 

In 1995, fire made up 16 percent of the Forest Service’s annual appropriated 

budget—this year, for the first time, more than 50 percent of the Forest Service’s 

annual budget will be dedicated to wildfire.1 Along with this shift in resources, 

there has also been a corresponding shift in staff, with a 39 percent reduction in 

all non-fire personnel. Left unchecked, the share of the budget devoted to fire in 

2025 could exceed 67 percent, equating to reductions of nearly $700 million from 

non-fire programs compared to today’s funding levels. That means that in just 10 

years, $2 out of every $3 the Forest Service gets from Congress as part of its appropriated budget will be spent on fire programs. 

As more and more of the agency’s resources are spent each year to provide the 

firefighters, aircraft, and other assets necessary to protect lives, property, and natural resources from catastrophic wildfires, fewer and fewer funds and resources are 

available to support other agency work—including the very programs and restoration projects that reduce the fire threat. 

The depletion of non-fire programs to pay for the ever-increasing costs of fire has 

real implications, not only for the Forest Service’s restoration work that would help 

prevent catastrophic fires, but also for the protection of watersheds and cultural resources, upkeep of programs and infrastructure that support thousands of recreation 

jobs and billions of dollars of economic growth in rural communities, and support 

for the range of multiple uses, benefits and ecosystem services, as well as research, 

technical assistance, and other programs that deliver value to the American public. 

The Forest Service has continually worked to do more with less, seeking to provide for the forests’ multiple uses with fewer resources and staff. The Forest Service 

has also worked to appropriately allocate firefighting resources and improve risk 

management to use those resources safely and efficiently. 

However, the agency is at a tipping point. 

Climate change has led to fire seasons that are now on average 78 days longer 

than in 1970. The U.S. burns twice as many acres as 3 decades ago and Forest Service scientists believe the acreage burned may double again by mid-century. Increasing development in fire-prone areas also puts more stress on the Forest Service’s 

suppression efforts. 

While the Forest Service and its firefighting partners are able to suppress or manage 98 percent of fires, catastrophic mega-fires burn through the agencies resources: 

1–2 percent of fires consume 30 percent or more of annual costs. Last year, the Forest Service’s ten largest fires cost more than $320 million dollars. The cost of fire 

suppression is predicted to increase to nearly $1.8 billion by 2025. This trend of rising fire suppression costs is predicted to continue as long as the 10 year average 

serves as the funding model and presents a significant threat to the viability of all 

other services that support our National Forests. 

This unsustainable problem is made worse because in many years, fighting fires 

costs more than was planned for that year, requiring mid-season transfers of additional dollars from already depleted accounts to pay for firefighting: a practice referred to as ‘‘fire transfer.’’ In some cases, the agency is forced to divert money away 

from the same forest restoration projects that prevent or lessen the impacts of future wildfire. While Congress typically provides supplemental resources to replenish 

the Forest Service budget after fire transfers, transfers remain extremely problematic as they disrupt seasonal work, frustrate partners, and delay vital work. 

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The Escalating Cost of Fire Suppression 

Wildland fire suppression activities are currently funded entirely within the U.S. 

Forest Service budget, based on a 10 year rolling average. Using this model, the 

agency must average firefighting costs from the past 10 years to predict and request 

costs for the next year. When the average was stable, the agency was able to use 

this model to budget consistently for the annual costs associated with wildland fire 

suppression. Over the last few decades, however, wildland fire suppression costs 

have increased as fire seasons have grown longer and the frequency, size, and severity of wildland fires has increased. 

Changing climatic conditions across regions of the United States are driving increased temperatures—particularly in regions where fire has not been historically 

prominent. This change is causing variations and unpredictability in precipitation 

and is amplifying the effects and costs of wildfire. Related impacts are likely to continue to emerge in several key areas: limited water availability for fire suppression, 

accumulation at unprecedented levels of vegetative fuels that enable and sustain 

fires, changes in vegetation community composition that make them more fire 

prone, and an extension of the fire season to as many as 300 days in many parts 

of the country. 

These factors result in fires that increasingly exhibit extreme behavior and are 

more costly to manage. The six worst fire seasons since 1960 have all occurred since 

2000. Moreover, since 2000, many western states have experienced the largest 

wildfires in their state’s history. 

In addition, more and more development is taking place near forests—an area referred to as the Wildland-Urban Interface (WUI). Increasing densities of people and 

infrastructure in the WUI makes management more complex and requires more 

firefighting assets to ensure an appropriate, safe, and effective response that protects lives and property. 

Funding for non-fire programs has not kept pace with the increased cost of fighting fire. The growth in fire suppression costs has steadily consumed an ever-increasing portion of the agency’s appropriated budget. Between last fiscal year and this 

year, for example, the suppression budget grew by $115 million and non-fire programs were reduced by that amount, requiring the agency to forego opportunities 

to complete vital restoration work and meet public expectations for services. Those 

non-fire activities are often those that improve the health and resilience of our forested landscapes and mitigate the potential for wildland fire in future years. 

Over the last few decades, wildfire costs have increased as a percent of the Forest 

Service’s budget as fire seasons have grown longer and more costly. The projected 

continued growth in the 10 year average cost of fire suppression through 2025 is 

rising to nearly $1.8 billion. This amounts to a nearly $700 million decrease in nonfire program funding in the next 10 years. 

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Figure 1: The Cost of Wildland Fire (Preparedness, Suppression, FLAME, 

and Related Programs) as a Percentage of the Forest Service’s Annual 

Budget 

Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow Wildland Fire Cost Consumes Forest 

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2This projection was developed by Forest Service researchers and is based on similar methodologies currently used for suppression cost expenditures that are required within FLAME Act 

provisions. 

Figure 2: Projected Growth of the 10 Year Average Cost of Fire Suppression 

(in $1,000s) Through 2025 2

Impacts to Forest Service Program Areas and Staff 

The following charts show that from 1995 to 2015, the Wildland Fire Management 

appropriation Preparedness, Suppression, FLAME, and related programs) has more 

than tripled in its portion of the Forest Service budget from 16 percent to 52 percent, reducing National Forest System funding by nearly $475 million in 2015 dollars (32 percent reduction in real dollars), and also impacting other program areas. 


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Figure 3: Forest Service FY 1995 Appropriations by Fund 

Figure 4: Forest Service FY 2015 Appropriations by Fund 

At the same time, increasing the portion of the budget dedicated to fire has reduced the Forest Service’s ability to sustain staffing in vital non-fire program areas, 

which negatively impacts the Forest Service’s ability to deliver work on the ground, 

including forest restoration and management, recreation, research, watershed protection, land conservation, and other activities. 


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* Editor’s note: the text inset under the graphic was set as a comment field in the original 

pdf. 3These charts start at 2001 rather than 1995 because many of the programs (BLIs) have 

changed over the years, and FY 2001 to FY 20015 represents a time period over which the following programs remained consistent and therefore provide for an analogous comparison year 

over year. 4 Appropriation numbers were adjusted for inflation to constant FY 2015 dollars. The deflators 

are from the Office of Budget and Management Fiscal Year 2015 Historical Tables, Table 10.1 

(http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2015/assets/hist.pdf). 

Since 1998, fire staffing within the Forest Service has increased 114 percent, from 

around 5,700 employees in 1998 to over 12,000 in 2015. Over the same period, staffing levels for those dedicated to managing National Forest System lands has decreased by 39 percent—from approximately 18,000 in 1998 to fewer than 11,000 in 

2015. 

Figure 5: Forest Service Staffing 1998 to 2015 

Shifts in Forest Service Staffing Levels 1998–2015 

Image uses figures representing fire staff and all other Forest Service 

staff to show changes in staffing from 1998 to 2015. Fire staffing has increased from 5,700 to 12,000 employees while other staffing has decreased 

from 18,000 to 11,000.* 

Impacts on Individual Programs 

Funding trends for the past 15 years for individual programs used to manage the 

National Forest System are shown below.3 This section illustrates the significant declines in these programs and describes the resulting impacts as a result of the shift 

of financial and human resources away from management of the National Forest 

Systems and to the Wildland Fire Management accounts, within the agency’s constrained annual budget.4


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Vegetation & Watershed Management—24% Reduction 

Vegetation & Watershed Mgmt 

Enacted Amounts in Inflation Adjusted 2015 Dollars. Dollars in Thousands. 

The Vegetation and Watershed Management Program is the cornerstone for forest, rangeland, soil and water restoration and enhancement activities on National 

Forest System (NFS) lands and plays a key role in post-fire restoration. These programs are necessary for the agency to effectively support resource restoration 

projects that achieve multiple values, develop external partnerships to sustain 

healthy watersheds and ecological communities, and provide an array of benefits for 

current and future generations. 

Benefits include: improved water quality and quantity, healthy forests and rangelands that provide a variety of products, a reduction of risks associated with 

wildfires, and greater resistance to establishment and spread of invasive species. 

Reduced funding since 2001 has decreased the rate of restoration that the agency 

could have achieved across all NFS landscapes had funding levels been maintained. 

The agency has been less able to engage in watershed improvement activities as 

well as overall restoration activities occurring within priority watersheds. The reductions have limited the agency’s ability to prevent and limit the spread of invasive 

species; to decrease the backlog of deforestation and young stand management 

needs; and to lessen the severity and extent of insect, disease, and fire-prone forest 

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Capital Improvement and Maintenance 

Enacted Amounts in Inflation Adjusted 2015 Dollars. Dollars in Thousands. 

Facilities—68% Reduction 

The facilities program supports maintenance and capital improvement on approximately 21,600 recreation sites and 23,100 research and other administrative buildings. More than 1⁄2 of all administrative facilities need improvement, with approximately 41 percent in poor condition needing major repairs or renovation, approximately 12 percent in fair condition needing some minor repair, and 47 percent of 

the facilities in good condition. 

Due to the significant decrease in facilities funding, the agency has had to scale 

down or defer most decommissioning and disposal projects that would reduce our 

square footage. Projects that implement sustainability best practices to conserve energy and water have been deferred. Reduced funding has jeopardized the agency’s 

ability to address basic facility operational and maintenance needs and many of our 

safety issues such as those associated with water and septic systems. The overall 

effect is an increase in public health and safety concerns, and liability for the Federal Government. The only action National Forests can take to reduce the government liability is to close recreation facilities, thereby impacting the outdoor recreation opportunities that drive many rural tourism economies. 

Because of a lack of funding, the Forest Service has lost opportunities for new office construction to replace administrative facilities at the end of their design life, 

resulting in office closure and moves into leased facilities. Deferred maintenance has 

increased resulting in more expensive future repairs or possible loss of facility investments. Projects to decommission buildings and reduce the square feet have been 

deferred. Projects that would have helped the agency make its buildings more sustainable and reduce the costs of maintaining recreation facilities have also been deferred. 

Concurrently, additional fire facilities have been added to meet increased suppression needs. This has required a shift in spending from capital improvements for national priority projects to projects critical for fire readiness. For example, Air Tanker 

Bases need pavement improvements to handle the newer aircraft which are being 

added to the fleet, these projects will be phased in over several years, increasing 

costs. 

Roads—46% Reduction 

The National Forest Road System is an integral part of the rural transportation 

network. It provides access for recreational, administrative, resource management, 

and commercial purposes. It also provides access to and between rural and gateway 

communities, contributing to community vitality and economic development. Maintaining this system is necessary to continue to provide this access, to meet Highway 

Safety Act requirements, emergency response, and to protect the quality of critical 

water supplies provided by National Forest System lands to communities. 

As our transportation infrastructure ages or is damaged by natural events, some 

roads and bridges have become unsafe for public travel. The Forest Service has had 

to restrict traffic on or close those roads and bridges until funds are available for 

maintenance and repairs. Thirteen percent of our bridges are currently structurally 

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ment or repairs, structurally deficient bridges would first be load-restricted and ultimately closed as deficiencies progress. 

Road restoration and decommissioning efforts, a critical component of watershed 

restoration, has progressed but not at the accelerated pace necessary to achieve watershed protection and other management objectives. Action to replace road and 

stream crossings for aquatic organism passage and to improve aquatic habitat and 

resilience to catastrophic natural disasters has also suffered. Reducing these activities increases the severity and frequency of environmental impacts like catastrophic 

failure from natural disasters, adverse effects to water quality, and deterioration of 

aquatic and terrestrial habitat. Our ability to support accelerated watershed restoration continues to be severely affected. 

As a lack of funds forces the Forest Service to delay needed maintenance and improvements on many roads and bridges, access will become more restricted, environmental impacts will increase rapidly, and vulnerability to catastrophic failure from 

natural disasters will greatly increase. It will become more difficult for the public 

to access communities reached only by traveling through NFS lands, as well as recreational areas, and other natural resource areas. Firefighting ability could also decline significantly as road access restrictions increase, putting our resources and the 

public at risk. 

Deferred Maintenance—95% Reduction 

The Deferred Maintenance and Infrastructure Improvement program addresses 

serious public health and safety concerns associated with the agency’s backlog in 

maintenance needs. This program funds high-priority national projects, focusing on 

areas that are heavily used by the public and agency employees. These projects include critical maintenance and repairs to dams; correcting health and safety deficiencies in buildings, campgrounds, and water and wastewater systems; and renovating recreation structures. 

In FY 2001, the Deferred Maintenance funding supported approximately 400 

major projects. In FY 2014 the funding supported three major projects. In FY 2013 

and FY 2014, 21 projects were deferred to future years, including sewer system repairs, water system improvements, dam repairs, and wastewater system rehabilitation. 

Forest Service assets currently have a deferred maintenance backlog of over $5.1 

billion and many are 30 to 50 years old or more. The near elimination of funding 

for this program has prevented the Forest Service from making a dent in this backlog and has forced the agency to shift more of the deferred maintenance work to 

other capital improvement programs, further reducing our ability to improve the 

long-term sustainability of our facilities, roads, and trails. 

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Recreation, Heritage and Wilderness—15% Reduction 

Recreation, Heritage & Wilderness 

Enacted Amounts in Inflation Adjusted 2015 Dollars. Dollars in Thousands. 

The Recreation, Heritage and Wilderness programs offer a diverse range of recreational opportunities across NFS lands, connecting people with nature in an unmatched variety of settings and activities. The decrease in funding resulting from 

increased fire costs has limited the agency’s ability to provide vital recreational opportunities on NFS lands, which jeopardizes the thousands of jobs that are part of 

a growing recreational economy. 

The agency has been unable to more fully implement sustainable Recreation, Heritage, Volunteer Services and Wilderness and Wild & Scenic Rivers programs to provide consistent, quality recreation opportunities to the public. Reductions in recreation funding have a direct impact on local economies supported by these activities, 

including many small outfitter and guide businesses that depend on recreation sites 

and programs on NFS lands. Additionally, the Forest Service’s ability to leverage 

funds and implement projects with partners and volunteers is constrained by the 

reductions in funding and staff, substantially affecting services. 

The reductions in funding have also affected the Forest Service’s capacity to manage the permits needed for outfitters and guides and other recreation-focused small 

businesses to use the public land. This impacts the presence and stability of permittees and small business in nearby tourism-oriented communities. 

Services to youth have also suffered. A higher sustained level of funding would 

increase the capability of the Forest Service to engage youth in the outdoors and 

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Landownership Management—33% Reduction 

Landownership Management 

Enacted Amounts in Inflation Adjusted 2015 Dollars. Dollars in Thousands. 

A 33 percent decrease in funding to Landownership Management has impaired 

the agency’s ability to respond to demands that are growing in number and complexity in the lands special use permits program, which supports critical projects involving energy pipelines, geothermal, electric transmission, hydropower, telecommunication infrastructure, including cellular towers and traditional line service 

and broadband facilities. 

These special use projects provide community development and growth that directly supports job creation. Reductions in funding have limited the agency’s ability 

to keep up with title claims and encroachments, each of which can cost the agency 

thousands of dollars to investigate and resolve, or can lead to even more costly lawsuits. 


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Wildlife & Fisheries Habitat Management—18% Reduction 

Wildlife & Fisheries Habitat Mgmt 

Enacted Amounts in Inflation Adjusted 2015 Dollars. Dollars in Thousands. 

The reduction in funding to Wildlife and Fisheries compromises, for example, recovery efforts for threatened and endangered species (TES). The Forest Service has 

been unable to fulfill all of the required monitoring associated with previous Endangered Species Act (ESA) consultation commitments, reducing the agency’s ability to 

implement projects in the future and jeopardizing current projects because ESA consultation requirements cannot be met. The agency has had to forego many projects 

critical to TES recovery and conservation efforts and offsetting the impacts of climate change. 

The reduction in operating funds has limited the agency’s ability to support existing partnerships. These partnerships often bring in as much as four-to-one return 

in partner contributions. This has resulted in the loss of significant dollars that 

could have been leveraged and has further reduced the agency’s impact on key restoration objectives. 


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Land Management Planning—64% Reduction 

Land Management Planning 

Enacted Amounts in Inflation Adjusted 2015 Dollars. Dollars in Thousands. 

Reductions in Land Management Planning have had a significant impact on the 

Forest Service’s ability to reduce the backlog of forest plans requiring revision. The 

National Forest Management Act requires that each unit of the NFS have a Land 

Management Plan (LMP) that is formally revised every 10 to 15 years to address 

changing conditions and new information related to natural resources, management 

goals, and public use. The agency has only been able to meet this revision requirement on about 46 percent of its 125 LMPs. 

The updated LMPs are essential for providing current, broad guidance for identifying, prioritizing, and implementing the programs and projects that move an NFS 

unit towards achieving desired conditions and achieving agency objectives. Reduced 

funding has had a significant effect on our ability to engage with the public and 

partners to address management issues and opportunities that have emerged since 

the original plans were developed. These efforts are essential for garnering public 

support and reducing appeals and litigations, which impacts our ability to implement key restoration efforts and increases implementation costs. 


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Inventory & Monitoring—35% Reduction 

Inventory and Monitoring 

Enacted Amounts in Inflation Adjusted 2015 Dollars. Dollars in Thousands. 

Reductions in Inventory and Monitoring have reduced the agency’s ability to collect essential inventory and monitoring information, which has further delayed our 

ability to revise forest management plans. This reduced funding has hampered the 

Forest Service’s ability to plan and execute projects for adapting and mitigating the 

effects of changing climate conditions, including completing watershed condition assessments, developing strategies for addressing needs for specific wildlife species 

and roadless area evaluations, as well as ensuring abundant clean water, providing 

recreation opportunities, restoring and maintaining forest and rangeland ecosystems, and improving priority watersheds across larger landscapes. Without current and adequate planning and monitoring, our ability to effectively deliver restoration treatments, recreation and special use permitting, and other economic activities 

on NFS lands has been adversely affected. 

Conclusion 

As documented in this report, the rising cost of fire suppression coupled with the 

current budgeting model is significantly impacting all non-fire program and staff 

areas. 

The dramatic underlying shift of funding and human capacity from non-fire programs to support fire programs has real implications on the ground, including for 

restoration work that would help prevent catastrophic fires, protect watersheds that 

provide clean drinking water to tens of millions of people, protect irreplaceable cultural resources, and provide the infrastructure and programming that supports the 

$646 billion outdoor recreation economy and jobs and economic growth in hundreds 

of rural communities. 

To solve this problem, we must change the way we pay for wildfire. Instead of 

treating catastrophic wildfires as a normal agency expense, we must treat them 

more like other natural disasters, such as tornadoes or hurricanes. And any solution 

must confront both parts of the funding quandary: it must limit or reverse the runaway growth of firefighting costs, and it must address the compounding disruption 

of fire transfers. 

Bipartisan legislation that offers a more rational approach to funding wildfire, the 

Wildfire Disaster Funding Act, has already been introduced in the House and Senate. It is mirrored by a similar option in the President’s 2016 Budget. This proposal 

provides a fiscally responsible mechanism to treat wildfires more like other natural 


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disasters, end transfers, and partially replenish agency capacity to restore resilient 

forests and protect against future fire outbreaks. 

USDA and the Forest Service look forward to working with Congress to take action to address the growth of fire costs that is crippling the agency’s ability to conserve the nation’s forests and grasslands and to provide the multiple uses and values for which the agency was created. 

SUBMITTED LETTER BY HON. DAN NEWHOUSE, A REPRESENTATIVE IN CONGRESS FROM

WASHINGTON

Evergreen Forest County Group 

Washington’s National Forest Counties 

October 5, 2015 

Hon. DAN NEWHOUSE, U.S. House of Representatives, 

Washington, D.C. 

Dear Representative Newhouse: 

Washington State has just experienced another record, devastating fire season 

that has witnessed the loss of three firefighters, hundreds of homes and businesses 

in these fires, besides the loss of renewable natural resources, watersheds, and wildlife habitat. With this reality comes a once in a generation opportunity to put in 

place solutions that will prevent such devastation from recurring on such a large 

scale. As you consider proposals to improve Federal forest policies, we respectfully 

urge you to pass legislation that both: 

1. Improves wildfire preparedness, response, and suppression funding policies; 

and 

2. Meaningfully reduces the risk of future fires by thinning forests and restoring 

forest diversity and resiliency on Federal forestlands across Washington 

State. 

The Federal Government controls nearly 1⁄2 of Washington State’s total forestland. 

The Forest Service is the largest land manager with over 8 million acres, or 37 percent of Washington’s forestland. Over the last 2 decades, Federal regulations, lawsuits, and the resulting ‘‘analysis paralysis’’ have caused a rapid decline in Federal 

forest management activities. Many Federal and Tribal forests have become unnaturally dense, overstocked and more vulnerable to insects, disease, and immense catastrophic wildfires. 

Harvest levels from National Forests are currently 14 percent of annual growth 

in eastern Washington and two percent of annual growth in western Washington. 

Today 97 percent of Washington State timber harvests come from non-Federal land, 

while only three percent comes from Federal forestlands. While this year’s wildfires 

impacted both Federal and non-Federal lands, there is widespread recognition that 

we must increase the pace and scale of needed forest management to restore the 

health and resiliency of our forests and reduce the risk of future catastrophic fires 

on overstocked Federal lands. 

Restoring active management on Federal forests would not only create additional 

jobs in the forest products sector, it would also generate revenues for local counties, 

benefit the state’s outdoors industry, hunting opportunities, and other sectors that 

depend on healthy, vibrant forests and watersheds. Reducing the future risk of catastrophic wildfires is also critically important to maintaining and growing the tourism economy in our rural communities where unemployment rates are typically 2– 

3 times King County’s unemployment rate. 

The yearly summer trend of ‘‘fire budget borrowing,’’ lives lost to firefighting, and 

immense catastrophic fires will not end until Congress takes swift action on solutions that restore the health of our Federal forests and reform our approach to funding wildfire suppression. The House of Representatives recently passed comprehensive wildfire funding and forest management reform legislation that builds on bipartisan reforms included in the 2014 Farm Bill. It earned the support of over 170 organizations, including conservation, sportsmen, outdoor, counties and forestry 

groups that recognize the benefits of these reforms. There is also growing bipartisan 

support in the Senate for improving wildfire and forest management policies. 

Active forest management and restoration is one of the few effective, long-term 

solutions for improving the health of our forests and rural communities. The primary factor limiting active forest restoration on Federal lands is the time and cost 

required for the Forest Service to satisfy exhaustive analytic requirements driven 

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by conflicting regulations and litigation. The Forest Service currently expends over 

$350 million annually on environmental reviews, limiting the money available for 

on-the-ground projects. Those reviews also take an average of 19–37 months to complete, delaying needed projects to restore forests or get ahead of the growing threat. 

Fortunately, it is possible to streamline the environmental review process to improve the pace and scale of projects without sacrificing conservation values. 

Thank you for your concern and interest in resolving this critical issue. We urge 

you to work together on a bipartisan basis to support the forest health reforms we 

need to effectively fight wildfires, rehabilitate burned forests, and actively manage 

our Federal forests to reduce the size and severity of future wildfires. 

Sincerely Washington’s National Forest Counties, 

Chelan County: DOUG ENGLAND, KEITH GOEHNER, RON WALTER; 

Ferry County: MIKE BLANKENSHIP, BRAD MILLER, NATHAN DAVIS; 

Grays Harbor County: WES CORMIER, FRANK GORDON, VICKIE RAINES; 

Kittitas County: GARY BERNDT, PAUL JEWELL, OBIE OBRIEN; 

Lewis County: EDNA FUND, BILL SCHULTE, GARY STAMPER; 

Okanogan County: RAY CAMPBELL, JIM DETRO, SHEILAH KENNEDY; 

Pend Oreille County: STEVE KISS, MIKE MANUS, KAREN SKOOG; 

Skagit County: KEN DAHLSTEDT, LISA JANICKI, RON WESEN; 

Skamania County: CHRIS BRONG, BOB HAMLIN, DOUG MCKINZIE; 

Snohomish County: KEN KLEIN; 

Stevens County: DON DASHIELL, WES MCCART, STEVE PARKER; 

Whatcom County: JACK LOUWS, COUNTY EXECUTIVE. 

CC: 

The Honorable PATTY MURRAY, 

The Honorable SUZAN K. DELBENE, 

The Honorable RICK LARSEN, 

The Honorable JAIME HERRERA BEUTLER, 

The Honorable CATHY MCMORRIS RODGERS, 

The Honorable MARIA CANTWELL, 

The Honorable DEREK KILMER, 

The Honorable JIM MCDERMOTT, 

The Honorable DAVE REICHERT, 

The Honorable ADAM SMITH, 

The Honorable DENNY HECK. 

SUBMITTED QUESTIONS

Response from Thomas L. Tidwell, Chief, U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture 

Questions Submitted by Hon. Glenn Thompson, a Representative in Congress from 

Pennsylvania 

Question 1. How many Forest Service timberland acres have burned over the last 

10 years? How many of those acres have been salvaged? How does this compare to 

the 1990s? 

Answer. 

Nearly 15 million acres of National Forests and Grasslands burned in the last 10 

years (2006–2015), according FIRESTAT, the agency’s wildfire reporting application. 

The Forest Service national data reporting systems do not permit us to identify or 

summarize how many of those acres have been salvaged nationally. 

However, the agency reported in ‘‘Harvest Trends on National Forest System 

Lands 1984–2015 on National Forest System Lands,’’ that nearly 400,000 acres of 

sanitation or salvage harvest was completed to capture imminent mortality or recover forest products from fire, insect, disease, wind, competition, or other causes 

from 2006–2015. 

In comparison, more than 5 million acres burned from 1990–1999 and nearly 1.7 

million acres of sanitation or salvage harvest was completed for the same causes described previously. However, timber harvest on National Forest System lands hit a 

peak in 1990 and declined rapidly during that decade, including salvage. The average total acres harvested from 2006–2015 are less than 25% of the 1990 peak. See 

accompanying tables. 

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Table 1. Salvage acres, total harvest acres, and wildfire acres 1990–1999 

All Salvage Acres Total Harvest Acres Wildfire Acres 

1990 207,794 902,647 319,015 

1991 177,698 795,745 151,861 

1992 172,499 755,638 505,385 

1993 241,481 732,463 225,208 

1994 179,882 623,458 1,375,556 

1995 126,528 478,902 256,641 

1996 152,563 473,127 1,101,052 

1997 154,517 457,848 164,002 

1998 183,287 525,755 226,622 

1999 96,447 448,746 744,262 

10 yr. avg. 169,270 619,433 506,960 

Table 2. Salvage acres, total harvest acres, and wildfire acres 2006–2015 

All Salvage Acres Total Harvest Acres Wildfire Acres 

2006 158,936 374,602 1,809,795 

2007 31,396 232,705 2,820,105 

2008 21,438 205,321 1,502,242 

2009 32,147 204,077 686,318 

2010 19,519 177,816 306,504 

2011 21,186 195,481 1,634,815 

2012 30,538 208,641 2,817,333 

2013 32,045 209,289 1,228,086 

2014 26,522 192,564 649,260 

2015 22,562 204,763 1,382,855 

10 yr. avg. 39,629 220,526 1,483,731 

Question 2. Following the devastating 2015 fire season, how many acres do you 

anticipate will be salvaged? How many acres will be restored or reforested? 

Answer. The staffs on many National Forests are still assessing the impacts of 

the wildfires to identify the potential acres for salvage treatments. Even when completed, that information is only available at the project level for each National Forest and is not summarized nationally. Priorities, funding, and operational capacity 

would determine how many of the potential acres are salvaged. As the figures in 

response to your first question illustrate, a relatively small proportion of burned 

acres are likely to be salvaged. From the 2015 fire season we expect approximately 

334,000 total acres will need to be reforested, of which approximately 194,000 acres 

are estimated to need planting and approximately 140,000 acres are expected to 

come back through natural regeneration but may need some site preparation and 

monitoring to ensure that they are re-establishing naturally. These are initial estimates and will be refined with additional analysis. Funding and operational capacity will determine how many of those needed acres will be reforested. 

Question 3. Fire transfers are obviously not a new problem, and they cause longterm consequences. When did we start to see more and more fire transfers happening? At that time, how much board feet of timber were we cutting? How much 

hazardous fuel were we removing from the forests? 

Answer. The Forest Service has been using the 10 year rolling average as a basis 

for suppression budgeting since the early 1990s. Because the cost of fire suppression 

continues to increase as fire seasons grow longer and hotter and because of the dramatic increase of development in the wildland urban interface, in most years, the 

10 year average no longer accurately reflects the current total cost of fire suppression. This reality is reflected in the fact that since FY 2000, the Forest Service’s 

fire suppression costs have exceeded amounts provided in annual appropriations in 

all but 2 years: FY 2001 and FY 2010. The Forest Service is the only Federal agency 

that is required to pay for national disasters out of its regular constrained budget. 

Fully funding the ever-increasing 10 year average in a constrained budget results 

in the long-term erosion of funds from other Forest Service programs in the budget 

formulation process, often from the same programs that pre-emptively reduce risk 

and help improve the condition of the National Forest System before the next fires 

strike. In FY 2015 alone, fire suppression accounted for over 1⁄2 of the budget, with 

$115 million allocated away from non-fire programs such as restoration, recreation 

and watershed health programs. End-of-season transfers to cover suppression costs 

that exceed appropriated amounts compound the problem and create instability and 

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uncertainty for both the agency and the public. In 2015, the Forest Service borrowed 

$700 million to cover suppression expenses. 

The Forest Service is at a tipping point. While the Forest Service has been able 

to meet its timber targets due to innovation, efficiencies, an increase in collaborative 

support, and a remarkable workforce, without a fix to the fire budget, additional 

gains will be increasingly difficult. In FY 2000, the Forest Service sold 1.7 billion 

board feet, compared with 2.9 billion board feet in FY 2015. We do not have an estimate of how much material removed from the National Forests was hazardous fuels, 

but approximately 4.6 million acres were treated using commercial thinning, prescribed burns and other treatments (see table in response to Question 12 below. 

Question 4. How can the Forest Service utilize more local expertise when responding to forest fires? 

Answer. The Forest Service works extensively with our state and local partners 

to support wildland fire management operations. These cooperators are essential to 

ensuring that every wildfire receives an appropriate, risk informed, and effective response regardless of the jurisdiction. For any response, the concept of nearest available asset is implemented. Depending on the situation, nearest available assets may 

be state and or local assets. Implementing these assets enables a more efficient and 

timely response than transporting a Forest Service-owned asset from further distances. 

The Forest Service relies on states and other cooperators, and in turn, those cooperators rely on the Forest Service to meet their operational objectives. It is neither financially prudent nor operationally optimal for all entities to maintain exclusive and duplicative resources. Every fire season is unique. In some seasons the majority of fire activity occurs on Forest Service lands, in other seasons it occurs on 

state and local or private lands. Sometimes we are equally burdened. Across multiple years the costs of leveraging each other’s assets is more financially and operationally effective than maintaining exclusive assets. 

In 2014, the Wildland Fire Leadership Council launched the National Cohesive 

Wildland Fire Management Strategy, which focuses on fire adapted communities, 

response to wildland fire, and restoring and maintaining landscapes. The Strategy 

is being implemented through various Federal, local, and Tribal efforts. 

Question 5. Wildfire suppression costs have skyrocketed. Obviously a large part 

of this is due to bigger, more catastrophic fires, but what other factors have further 

exacerbated the cost? Are there ways to reduce these costs? 

Answer. Over the last 20 years the increasing complexity and severity of wildfires 

is due to climate change, fuels buildup and the increased presence of homes in the 

wildland urban interface which has caused the cost of fire suppression to soar. 

These are the most significant factors contributing to increased suppression costs. 

The Forest Service uses a cost-effective approach to wildland firefighting. All 

wildfires receive an appropriate, risk informed and effective response. Using improved decision support tools, fire managers make risk-based assessments to decide 

when and where to suppress a fire—and when and where to use fire to achieve management goals for long-term ecosystem health and resilience. Our top priority is to 

ensure the safety of our firefighters and public while protecting homes and communities and other high value resources. We strive to deploy the right resources in the 

right place at the right time ensuring that the magnitude of our response is commensurate with the values at risk. Other less significant factors that do contribute 

to increased costs include increased fuel prices and increased human capital salary 

costs due to inflation; increased human capital benefits costs due to new policies affecting firefighters; and the need to update/modernize equipment and materials used 

on the fire line to keep pace with today’s technology requirements. Most of these 

kinds of costs cannot be easily reduced, but the Forest Service makes every effort 

to be most effective and efficient in obtaining equipment and positioning assets as 

appropriate. 

Question 6. In response to questions for the Senate Energy and Natural Resources 

Committee, Under Secretary Bonnie stated that the Forest Service currently is taking increasing lengths of time for planning and environmental analysis of forest 

management projects. Specifically, the Forest Service is taking 6.2 months for a 

project that is categorically excluded from NEPA, 19.1 months for a project utilizing 

an environmental assessment, and 37.2 months for a project requiring an environmental impact statement. While we all agree that we need to address the fire borrowing issue, doesn’t this lengthy process time seem to be at least as equally concerning in addressing our pressing need for more forestry management? 

Answer. The average timeframes for projects with these NEPA documents are 

based on the lapsed time from when the project is proposed to when it is decided. 

The timeframes are a result of many factors and do not represent the amount of 

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time actually spent on a particular project and do not represent total time spent 

on NEPA compliance. A dominating factor is the reduced staff (including the experts 

needed to conduct NEPA analyses) and budget available for project planning as a 

result of the increasing share of the Agency’s budget being devoted to fire suppression. It is very simple; fewer staff devoted to project development and implementation, generally results in longer time horizons. 

Question 7. In the Chief’s written testimony, he cited the Administration’s support 

for fire borrowing legislation that would only require funding 70% of the 10 year 

average in part because it would free $855 million for the agency. 

Can you explain how this number was determined? 

Answer. The proposal calls for funding 70 percent of the rolling 10 year average, 

which for FY16 would be $788.4 million. The Administration proposes funding 70 

percent of the 10 year average within the agency’s discretionary funding because 

that amount provides for suppression of 98 percent of fires (non-catastrophic fires). 

Analysis has shown that 30 percent of the suppression costs come from just two percent of fires (catastrophic fires). The remainder of the funding needed to suppress 

wildfires would come from a newly-created ‘‘sub cap’’ within the disaster cap adjustment in the Budget Control Act. The amount available from the disaster cap adjustment is calculated by using an out-year suppression forecasting model that predicts, 

within a 90 percent Confidence Interval, the lower, median, and upper forecasted 

spending amounts in future years. We use the upper forecasted amount to fully account for what may be needed from the disaster cap adjustment. In FY 2016 the 

upper forecasted amount that may be needed for fire suppression is $1.643 billion. 

So 70% of the rolling 10 year average would be allocated within the Forest Service’s 

constrained, discretionary budget ($788.4 million for FY 2016), while the additional 

30% of the rolling 10 year average, plus the amount above 100% of the rolling 10 

year average that would otherwise need to be transferred mid-season from non-fire 

accounts, would come from the sub cap ($855 million is the upper forecast for this 

combined amount in FY 2016). 

The proposal would allow for approximately $300 million—the cost of the top 2% 

of fires that account for 30% of suppression costs—to be reallocated back to the 

other vital land management programs from which those dollars have been transferred over time because of the growth in the 10 year average. Partially restoring 

some of those eroded funds would allow us to stabilize the pace and scale of our 

investments in restoring forested landscapes, helping forests adapt to the growing 

effects of climate change, and better prepare communities in the wildland/urban 

interface for future wildfires. 

In addition the proposal would prevent the potential need for fire transfer later 

this season of up to $555 million, the scenario described above as the upper forecast 

for needed suppression dollars in FY 2016, with those dollars coming from the cap 

adjustment rather than being cannibalized from the authorized dollars for other programs. Importantly, this is not ‘‘additional’’ funding for the agency; it is the prevention of mid-season transfer from other accounts to pay for fire suppression. 

Question 7a. Is this number over a 10 year timeframe? 

Answer. The formula would be applied each fiscal year and the difference between 

70 percent and the full amount of the rolling 10 year average would change annually, as would the upper forecasted suppression amount (which typically exceeds 

100% of the rolling 10 year average. Therefore, the amount requested from the cap 

adjustment funding would change each fiscal year. 

Question 7b. What safeguards are there to assure that this amount of funding 

would go to hazardous fuels reduction? 

Answer. Under the budget proposal for FY 2016, the Forest Service would maintain the substantial increase in funding for Hazardous Fuels provided by Congress 

in FY 2015. This increase would be largely due to the ‘‘1% of fires’’ funds—approximately $300 million, or 30% of the 10 year average—that would be restored to nonfire accounts as part of this proposal. The agency also proposed an increase in funding for other key restoration programs like Landscape Scale Restoration, Integrated 

Resource Restoration and Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration. This increased funding will not only maintain the momentum in the hazardous fuel reduction program, but also leverage the available funds to stabilize the pace and scale 

of our investments in restoring forested landscapes, help forests adapt to the growing effects of climate change, and better prepare communities in the wildland/urban 

interface for future wildfires. The rest of the potential funds that could come from 

the cap adjustment if implemented in FY 2016 would avoid the transfer of funds 

from non-fire accounts as allocated by Congress for Forest Service work during FY 

2016. They would not be ‘‘new’’ dollars, rather, would allow the Forest Service to 

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implement Congress’s budgetary direction without major mid-year and end-of-year 

program disruption from fire transfers. 

Question 7c. What assurances do you have that Congress would appropriate this 

funding for hazardous fuels reductions? 

Answer. The Forest Service cannot guarantee funding for any programs but will 

continue to request necessary funding through the Presidential Budget process. It 

is the responsibility of House and Senate Appropriators to appropriate funds. 

Question 7d. Can you be certain that the Appropriators would distribute this 

funding to the Forest Service? 

Answer. The Forest Service cannot guarantee funding for any programs but will 

continue to request necessary funding through the Presidential Budget process It 

is the prerogative of House and Senate Appropriators to appropriate funds as they 

see fit. 

Question 7e. If the additional funding made its way to the Forest Service, what 

assurances can you provide us that this funding would be used to reduce future fire 

risk rather than for other agency priorities? 

Answer. The agency’s FY 2016 Budget proposal requested substantial funding in 

the hazardous fuels program, as well as increased funding in restoration programs 

like Landscape Scale Restoration, Integrated Resource Restoration and Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration. Again—these proposed increases would not increase the overall Forest Service budget—but would reinvest dollars within the 

budget in programs other than fire suppression. Mitigating wildfire risk, restoring 

fire adapted ecosystems and building fire adapted communities are core principles 

within the Forest Service’s 2016–2020 Strategic Plan. We will continue to prioritize 

all efforts that achieve these principles including hazardous fuels treatment, Integrated Resource Restoration and other landscape restoration programs. 

Question 8. The approach taken by H.R. 2647 to fix fire-borrowing would allow 

the Secretaries of Agriculture and Interior to access the Disaster Relief Fund under 

FEMA and allow the worst wildfires to be treated like other natural disasters. Can 

you explain the Administration’s opposition to the House approach? 

Answer. The Administration’s fire funding proposal provides the necessary resources for the Forest Service and Department of the Interior to address wildland 

fire suppression and rehabilitation needs without resorting to detrimental shifts 

from other critical forest land landscape resilience priorities—preventing episodic 

transfers, and mitigating the impact of the annual growth in the rolling 10 year average. As described in the response to Question 7, the proposal also would ‘‘free up’’ 

an amount equal to 30% of the 10 year average for these critical priorities. While 

H.R. 2647 eliminates the need to transfer funds from non-fire programs when available suppression funds are exhausted, the requirement in H.R. 2647 to fully fund 

the rolling 10 year average for wildland fire suppression would mean that significantly less funding is available each year in the agency’s budget for other important 

programs, as the rolling 10 year average continues to grow while the Forest Service’s budget remains constrained. As noted above, the chronic problem of fire programs increasingly crowding out non-fire programs is real; in FY 2015 alone, because of the rising 10 year average, more than $115 million that was available for 

other work in FY 2014 was permanently diverted to fire programs. That pattern repeats itself every year, and has resulted in the untenable growth of fire programs 

from consuming 16% of the Forest Service’s budget to more than 52%—not counting 

mid-season transfers. 

Question 9. What are some areas where the Forest Service would benefit from 

having Categorical Exclusion authority to more quickly reduce the threat of catastrophic wildfire? 

Answer. The Forest Service is interested in further discussion about legislation 

that would authorize the categorical exclusion of certain types of forest management 

activities that are developed through a collaborative process, namely, those activities for which the primary purpose is the reduction of hazardous fuels in the 

wildland urban interface or in areas to protect municipal water supplies and other 

critical infrastructure. 

Consistent with the requirements of Section 8205 of the 2014 Farm Bill, we would 

not support Categorical Exclusions that contain harvest units that exceed 3,000 

acres. Any new CE must be consistent with objectives found in the land and resource management plans, be based on best available science, protect old growth, 

prohibit permanent roads, and comply with other applicable laws, such as the Endangered Species Act, the National Historic Preservation Act, and the Clean Water 

Act. 

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Editor’s note: the report entitled, The Rising Cost of Wildfire Operations, was also submitted 

for the record by Hon. Suzan K. DelBene, a Representative in Congress from Washington and 

is located on p. 73. 

* Editor’s note: the text inset under the graphic was set as a comment field in the original 

pdf. 

Question 10. You imply that fire has grown as a proportion of the Forest Service’s 

budget, and it has crowded out funding for non-fire programs. Certainly, fire borrowing is disruptive and has to stop. However, to understand the impact of the 

problem, we need a better picture on the structure of the Forest Service budget and 

personnel make up. Please provide the Committee with the following: 

In inflation adjusted terms, the total discretionary spending for the last decade 

for non-fire accounts, including preparedness and suppression. 

Answer. Please see enclosed spreadsheet[s] with discretionary spending for the 

last decade, [see Attachment 1]. 

Question 11. Please provide us with a chart summarizing non-fire FTE’s at the 

Forest Service for the last decade. Also, please provide a chart showing the number 

of FTE’s associated with the Forest Service Washington Office, including detached 

units, and the Albuquerque Service Center. 

Answer. Since 1998, fire staffing within the Forest Service has increased 114 percent, from around 5,700 employees in 1998 to over 12,000 in 2015. Over the same 

period, staffing levels for those dedicated to managing National Forest System lands 

has decreased by 39 percent—from approximately 18,000 in 1998 to fewer than 

11,000 in 2015 (see graphic below). The enclosed report, ‘‘The Rising Cost of Wildfire 

Operations’’ * shows the impact of rising suppression costs—separate from the problem of ‘‘fire borrowing’’ or transfer—on the agency’s non-fire work. 

Shifts in Forest Service Staffing Levels 1998–2015 

Image uses figures representing fire staff and all other Forest Service 

staff to show changes in staffing from 1998 to 2015. Fire staffing has increased from 5,700 to 12,000 employees while other staffing has decreased 

from 18,000 to 11,000.* 

The Forest Service structure is different from many other large Federal agencies 

in that it has a relatively small Washington, D.C. presence. At the end of Calendar 

Year 2015, approximately 660 Forest Service employees had Washington, D.C. duty 


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stations. Of these approximately 660 positions, 546 employees are dedicated to 

headquarters leadership roles (such as policy, oversight, and direction) and delivery 

of Forest Service programs. The remaining 114 positions were assigned to traditional operational support functions (e.g., Acquisitions, Information Technology, 

Human Resources, and Budget and Finance) and are part of Forest Service’s centralized services model implemented over the last decade to increase efficiency and 

streamline processes. Although associated with the Washington Office organizationally, the centralized services units are comprised of 2,221 employees located 

throughout the nation, including 991 located in Albuquerque. 

Employee Data 

(as of the end of CY 2015) 

Question 12. Written testimony at the hearing noted the Forest Service ‘‘treated’’ 

4.6 million acres in Fiscal Year 2014. For that year and for Fiscal Year 2015 (when 

available), please provide the Committee with a summary of acres treated by the 

following categories: 

• Acres treated through the use of prescribed fires 

• Prescribed fires that took place in the context of wildfire suppression actions, 

including back burns and jackpot burns. 

• Wildfires allowed to burn within prescription or to meet resource objectives 

• Acres treated by mechanical means, including a total figure and the following 

categories: 

» Commercial thinning. 

» Non-commercial or pre-commercial thinning. 

» Mowing, dragging, mastication, or other means. 

» Hand thinning without the removal of biomass. 

• Acres treated with herbicides to reduce noxious weeds 

• Other noxious weed control activities. 

Please do not include ‘‘lake acres treated.’’ 

Answer. Please see the trailing table regarding the treatments in Fiscal Year 2014 

and Fiscal Year 2015. Please note the acres reported in the table are a subset of 

the 4.6 million acres treated in FY 14. Treatments not included are: terrestrial acres 

treated, soil and water accomplishments, acres of range vegetation improved, portions of hazardous fuel accomplishments in and out of the Wildland Urban Interface, as well as other measures that make up total restoration accomplishments. 


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2014 2015 

Acres treated through the use of prescribed fires 1,357,791 1,131,388 

Prescribed fires that took place in the context of wildfire suppression actions, including back burns and jackpot burns N/A N/A 

Wildfires allowed to burn within prescription or to meet resource objectives 246,018 436,090 

Acres of forestlands treated using timber sales (commercial thinning) 192,563 204,420 

Acres of forestland vegetation improved (non-commercial or pre-commercial) 123,266 98,937 

Mowing, dragging, mastication, or other means N/A N/A 

Hand thinning without the removal of biomass N/A N/A 

Acres treated for noxious weeds/invasive plants on NFS lands (incorporates herbicides and other) 229,587 229,482 

Question 13. The Forest Service has said they are using the Categorical Exclusion 

provided for Insect & Disease Treatment Areas under the farm bill for 20 projects. 

Please provide the Committee with a list of those projects by Region and Forest, 

and the number of acres expected to be treated under each. 

Answer. See table below. 

Table: Projects Using Insect and Disease Categorical Exclusion 

State Region National Forest Project Name Brief Description 

1 Alabama 8 Alabama Bank Head 2016 Forest 

Health project 

Pine Thinning 

2 Arkansas 8 Ouachita PCS FY16 Farm Bill 

Thinning 

1,689 acres of thinning, including Shortleaf 

Pine 

3 Arkansas 8 Ouachita Mena Oden Farm Bill 

Thinning 

Thin approximately 810 acres 

4 California 5 Shasta-Trinity Pilgrim Plantation Treat 555 acres by thinning from below, prescribed burn, and apply borax fungicide 

and site prep and plant as needed. 

5 Colorado 2 Grand Mesa/ 

Uncompahgre 

Grand Mesa Resort 890 acres salvage 

6 Colorado 2 Medicine Bow-Routt Morrison II Timber salvage 

7 Georgia 8 Chattahoochee Oconee Divide Forest Health Thinning135 acres 

Loblolly salvage. 

8 Idaho 4 Boise Williams Creek This project proposes 1,457 acres commercial 

and 128 acres non-commercial thinning 

and fuel reduction activities to improve 

forest resiliency. 

9 Idaho 1 Idaho Panhandle Jasper Mountain Commercial harvest 1,961 acres and prescribed burn 72 acres 

10 Idaho 1 Idaho Panhandle Halfway Malin 480 acres prescribed burn, 885 acres commercial harvest, 2 culvert replacement, 

logjam removal and road decommissioning. 

11 Idaho 1 Idaho Panhandle Bottom Canyon 2,293 acres commercial timber harvest, 115 

miles road decommissioning, 64 miles road 

storage, improve 11 culverts and 57 

stream crossings, 134 acres prescribed 

burn, 112 acres mastication/planting. 

12 Idaho 1 Nez Perce Clearwater Lowell 330 acres of timber harvest. 

13 Idaho 4 Salmon-Challis Big Hill Insect and Disease 600 acres thinning, 75 acres of Sagebrush 

improvement, 600 acres prescribed Burn. 

14 Idaho 4 Sawtooth Redfish Road #210 Fuels 

Reduction 

3,000 acres prescribed burn, hand cut 592 

acres 

15 Montana 1 Beaverhead-Deerlodge Boulder Lowlands 1,913 acres of timber sales and biomass removal 

16 Montana 1 Flathead Radnor Resource 2,000 acres of timber sales and prescribed 

burn 

17 Montana 1 Kootenai Helwick 635 acres of timber sales. 

18 Montana 1 Lolo Little Eddy 131 acre timber sale 

19 Montana 1 Bitterroot Westside Commercial timber harvest and thinning on 

about 2,300 acres. Project includes prescribed burning, forest regeneration, permanent and temporary road construction, 

and bridge installation. 

20 Montana 1 Lewis and Clark Upper Sheep Creek Veg. Treat 1,914 acres with commercial, noncommercial harvesting and prescribed 

burning. 

21 New York 9 Green Mountain/Finger 

lakes 

Hemlock Wooly Adelgid 2,971 acres of soil treatment and basal spray 

22 North Carolina 8 NF in NC Shortleaf Pine Under development 

23 Oklahoma 8 Ouachita Tiak 1,000 acres thinning 

24 Oregon 6 Deschutes NF Shield I&D Under Development 

25 Utah 4 Uinta-Wasatch Cache Western Smiths Fork Restoration # 48074 1,872 acres of Mountain Pine Beetle treatment 

26 Utah 4 Dixie Upper Mammoth Creek 

27 Wyoming 2 Medicine Bow-Routt North Savery 5,500 acres of Lodge pole salvage and 1,000 

acres of pre-commercial thinning. 

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Question 13a. Also, please provide any notices of intent to sue or lawsuits filed 

against any project being conducted under the Insect & Disease Treatment Areas 

authority, including CE’s and other NEPA documents. 

Answer. The FS has no formal process by which it tracks Notices of Intent. The 

Agency is not aware of any such projects that have ‘‘Notices of Intent’’ to sue or lawsuits filed. 

Question 14. Written testimony at the hearing noted the Forest Service is ‘‘interested in ideas that will help us pursue treatment at the landscape scale quickly, 

efficiently, and in a reasonable time to address problems before they can worsen. 

As a general matter, the Forest Service welcomes legislation that incentivizes collaboration and expands the toolset we can use to complete critical work on our nation’s forests, without overriding environmental laws, mandating harvest levels, or 

requiring new layers of zoning on the NFS.’’ 

H.R. 2647, which was approved by this Committee: 

• Incentivizes collaboration by providing streamlined NEPA tools and protection 

from frivolous lawsuits for projects developed by collaborative groups. 

• Expands the toolset the FS can use to complete critical work by providing a series of targeted Categorical Exclusions for certain projects. 

• Does not override environmental laws or mandate harvest levels, and requires 

no new layers of zoning on the NFS. 

Without discussing fire borrowing, please provide the Committee with a list of 

specific provisions in H.R. 2647 which the Forest Service find objectionable. 

Answer. H.R. 2647 includes several provisions that will undermine collaborative, 

landscape-scale forest restoration by undermining public trust in forest management 

projects and by limiting public participation in decision-making. The Administration 

has substantial concerns with the design and scale of the categorical exclusions, provisions related to post-fire salvage and restoration (including unrealistic timelines 

for environmental assessments), and unrealistic targets for reforestation given current budgetary resources. 

The Administration has serious concerns with provisions in the bill related to the 

Resource Advisory Committees (RACs). The Administration opposes provisions that 

limit the discretion of RACs by requiring 50 percent of Secure Rural Schools Act 

Title II funding be spent on timber management projects. H.R. 2647 also assumes 

RACs can fulfill the role of local forest collaboratives in designing forest restoration 

projects, though the RACs were not specially set up do this and in many cases may 

not have the breadth of stakeholder interest and expertise to do so effectively. Additionally, the Administration opposes restrictions in the bill on the membership of 

RACs. 

Furthermore, the Administration opposes provisions in the bill that require litigants to post a bond when challenging forest restoration projects. As the Forest 

Service has demonstrated, the best way to address concerns about litigation is to 

develop restoration projects in partnership with broad stakeholder interests through 

a transparent process informed by the best available science. Lastly, the bill should 

include stronger protections for ecologically sensitive areas, tribal sacred sites, and 

other important lands. 

Question 14a. Are their pieces of this legislation that the Forest Service would 

find helpful to prevent and suppress wildfires? If so, please provide that list. 

Answer. The Administration appreciates that there is bipartisan agreement that 

wildland fire management funding needs a legislative fix. We look forward to working with the committee to find an agreeable solution that addresses the rising 10 

year average of suppression costs and stops the practice of transferring funds from 

non-fire accounts to pay for fire suppression. 

Question 15. During the hearing, Chief Tidwell said only 16 percent of projects 

receive any kind of administrative objection or are litigated. However, the Committee is aware that in 2014, in Region 1, 74 percent of projects covered by either 

CE’s or EIS, and fully 90 percent of projects covered by EIS’s, were either litigated 

or objected to. These objections and lawsuits covered more than 1⁄2 of the acres the 

Forest Service proposed to manage. Can you provide, for the fiscal year just ended, 

a list of all CEs and EIS’s completed, and whether the project received an administrative objection, notice of intent to sue, or an actual lawsuit? 

Answer. Direct year-to-year comparisons are difficult to make due to a number of 

variables, including budgetary concerns, decision timing, and local or regional conditions and events. 

Table 2 (below) shows data for FY 2015. In FY 2015, 36 lawsuits were filed 

against the Agency on land management decisions. Of these 36 lawsuits, only 13 

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suits (64%) were either challenging project decisions from previous fiscal years 

(2009–2014), alleged violations of law, policy and regulation on non-NEPA decisions 

or plaintiffs simply claimed the Agency ‘‘failed to act’’ under the APA. Those 23 lawsuits that do not involve NEPA or were related to previous-year project decisions 

are not included in Table 2. 

Table 2 also shows the number of NEPA decisions for each administrative unit 

by Decision Memo, Decision Notice, and Record of Decision. These projects are summarized on the enclosed documents (2015DM—ByAdministrativeUnit.pdf [Attachment 2]; 2015DN—ByAdministrativeUnit.pdf [Attachment 3]; 2015ROD— 

ByAdministrativeUnit.pdf [Attachment 4]—Litigated projects are highlighted). Last, 

Table 2 summarizes the number of objections filed in FY 2015 (Total of 100). Approximately 30% of all decisions receive objections. A summary of those projects is 

also enclosed (20160108—USFSProjectsWithObjections—FY2015.xls [Attachment 5]). 

The Forest Service does not track ‘‘Notices of Intent’’ to sue. 

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Table 2: Summary of Litigation/Objections Filed on Forest Service Land Management Decisions in Fiscal Year (FY) 2015 

Administrative 

Unit (USFS 

Region) 

Litigation Objections 

Decision Memos Decision Notices Record of Decision 

Total 

Completed 

Decisions vi

Total 

Projects 

Affected vii

% of Affected 

Projects 

Litigated 

Total 

Completed 

Decisions viii

Objections 

Filed % Objected To Completed 

Decisions 

Litigation 

Cases 

Filed ii

Completed 

Decisions 

Litigation 

Cases 

Filed iii

Completed 

Decisions iv

Litigation 

Cases 

Filed v

1 170 0 23 0 10 3 203 4 1 .9 33 25 75 .8 2 222 0 34 0 13 1 269 4 1 .5 47 14 29 .8 3 94 0 15 0 4 1 113 1 0 .9 19 8 42 .1 4 105 1 31 0 8 0 144 4 2 .8 39 7 17 .9 5 179 0 38 2 6 1 223 3 1 .3 44 7 15 .9 6 174 0 48 0 6 0 228 0 0 .0 54 25 46 .3 8 208 0 41 0 2 0 251 0 0 .0 43 6 13 .9 9 290 1 33 0 0 0 323 0 0 .0 33 3 9 .1 10 51 0 16 1 2 0 69 1 1 .4 18 5 27 .8 Other xi 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 100 .0 0 0 0 .0 Multiple x 0 0 0 0 0 2 

Totals 1,494 2 279 3 51 8 1,824 18 1 .0% 330 100 30 .3% 

iData from Planning, Appeals and Litigation (PALs) and CARA. Management decisions analyzed through the NEPA process using a categorical exclusion, environmental assessment or environmental impact statement. ii Not all filed cases result in court decisions. Plaintiffs may drop the case after filing and/or the Forest Service may settle through negotiations. iii Not all filed cases result in court decisions. Plaintiffs may drop the case after filing and/or the Forest Service may settle through negotiations. ivThe ROD’s include 2 Forest Plan Revisions in R1, 1 in R2, 2 in R3, 1 in R8. v Not all filed cases result in court decisions. Plaintiffs may drop the case after filing and/or the Forest Service may settle through negotiations. viTotal of all signed decisions documented by a Decision Memo, Decision Notice and Record of Decision. viiTotal number of documented projects in the PALs database affected by litigation filed in FY 2015. Data adjusted to reflect sage grouse lawsuits (Refer to endnote x). viiiTotal number of projects eligible for objections—Only includes Decision Notices and Records of Decision (Categorical exclusions are excluded from the objection process as they have, by definition, non-significant environmental effects). ixDecisions made by the Washington Office, Wood Products Lab and Research Stations. xLitigation directly naming multiple projects across multiple administrative units (i.e., 2 lawsuits filed on Sage Grouse that impact one (1) project in R1, three (3) projects in R2, and four (4) 

projects in R4). 

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Questions Submitted by Hon. Dan Newhouse, a Representative in Congress from 

Washington 

Question 1. Before I start I want to thank Chief Tidwell for visiting Washington 

State during this fire season. I also want to give my condolences to the Forest Service. The Forest Service and all the State of Washington continues to mourn Andrew, 

Rick, Tom, who we lost in the line of duty. 

Chief Tidwell, there are severe forest management deficiencies plaguing our Federal lands. What else is being done to promote resiliency and fire prevention in our 

National Forests? What other tools do you need? 

Answer. The Forest Service has increased the impact and rate of restoration nationally. In 2014, the agency accomplished treatments on 4.6 million acres to restore 

watershed function on NFS land and to reduce the threat of fire in the wildlandurban interface on NFS and State and private lands. This represents an increase 

of nearly 400,000 acres (9 percent) compared to 2011 despite mounting challenges 

such as record droughts, longer and drier wildfire seasons, a reduction in non-fire 

personnel to support the agency’s mission, and a rapidly increasing percentage of 

the budget being spent on wildland fire management. 

The number one factor influencing our ability to promote resiliency and health of 

our forests and grasslands is capacity, and the primary driver of capacity is the impact of fire costs on the agency budget. We appreciate the tools Congress provided 

such as the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program, Stewardship Contracting, and the 2014 Farm Bill reforms such as Good Neighbor Authority, and Insect and Disease priority designations and as noted above, are implementing them 

as aggressively as capacity permits. 

Question 2. Chief Tidwell—one of the concerns raised by these 12 counties composing the Evergreen Forest County Group—a letter from which was submitted for 

the record—is that of the state’s timber sales, only 3% of timber comes from Federal 

lands and this overstocked Federal land is contributing to catastrophic fires. Do you 

agree with this assessment? If so what do steps will you take to reverse this trend? 

Answer. Overstocked forest conditions are common across all land jurisdictions, 

including federal lands and those conditions are one factor contributing to the size 

and severity of wildfires, especially in the West. The Forest Service is working to 

restore the structure and function of forest lands which will reduce the threat of 

uncharacteristically severe wildfires and provide forest products. We are doing this 

through the use of new initiatives and authorities, such as the Collaborative Forest 

Landscape Restoration Program, Stewardship Contracting, and the 2014 Farm Bill 

reforms such as Good Neighbor Authority, and Insect and Disease priority designations that allow us to plan and implement at landscape scales and increase our efficiency through strategic partnerships or streamlined planning processes. In FY 

2016, our goal is to increase timber volume sold by 10 percent over last year. 

Question 3. How has litigation affected the Forest Service’s active forest management? 

Answer. When it occurs, litigation directly affects the Agency’s program of work 

in several ways. First, litigation is costly to the Agency in terms of time and dollars 

spent in defending the case. The funding and personnel utilized on defending the 

case are not available to implement other projects. Second, once litigation is filed, 

it usually takes more than one year before a case is resolved, and projects are occasionally placed on hold under court order. At times, these delays can prevent implementation, where the value of the project is time sensitive (e.g., salvageable timber 

can only be sold if it maintains its value). Third, when litigation is on a rule, rather 

than projects or plans, it can throw a cloud of uncertainty over any plans or projects 

developed under the rules’ direction, and an adverse decision can have broad impacts. Last, the threat of litigation can contribute to an increased workload by the 

amount of data collected and analyzed in order to lessen a perceived legal vulnerability. 

However, only a small percentage of projects are litigated, as detailed above: the 

vast majority of the agency’s NEPA decisions do not draw litigation. The Forest 

Service strongly supports transparency in decision-making and does not support restricting public access to the courts. The Forest Service has placed an emphasis on 

collaboration over the last decade that has served us well. We have a number of 

collaborative projects and programs underway across the National Forest System 

that exemplify the success that can be achieved when diverse groups come together 

with a common cause of a healthy landscape. Through an emphasis on collaboration, 

the Forest Service has consistently increased both the number of acres treated annually to improve watershed resilience and timber production—increasing timber 

harvest by 18 percent since 2008. The pre-decision objection process is also helping 

to resolve differences prior to a decision being finalized. 

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* Editor’s note: See, Supplemental graphic submitted by Rod Haeberle, Owner, Haeberle 

Ranch on page 44. 

Question 4. A map of Washington State, submitted for the record,* was provided 

to me by the long-term fire recovery group in my district. This graphic that shows 

the success state and tribal forest management has had, compared with Federal 

land in the State of Washington. How can the Forest Service utilize more local expertise when responding to forest fires? Or employ similar management techniques 

that have shown to be successful in the state? 

Answer. The Forest Service works extensively with our state and local partners 

to support wildland fire management operations. These cooperators are essential to 

ensuring that every wildfire receives an appropriate, risk informed, and effective response regardless of the jurisdiction. For any response, the concept of nearest available asset is implemented. Depending on the situation, nearest available assets may 

be state and or local assets. Implementing these assets enables a more efficient and 

timely response than transporting a Forest Service-owned asset from further distances. 

The Forest Service relies on states and other cooperators, and in turn, those cooperators rely on the Forest Service to meet their operational objectives. It is neither financially prudent nor operationally optimal for all entities to maintain exclusive and duplicative resources. Every fire season is unique. In some seasons the majority of fire activity occurs on Forest Service lands, in other seasons it occurs on 

state and local lands. Sometimes we are equally burdened. Across multiple years 

the costs of leveraging each other’s assets is more financially and operationally effective than maintaining exclusive assets. 

The Forest Service is continually working to increase productivity and efficiency 

in forest management. The Good Neighbor Authority provided in the 2014 Farm Bill 

establishes a framework for increasing cooperation with states. Agreements with 

several states have already been executed and more are being developed. These 

agreements allow state management processes to be applied on Federal land when 

they meet Federal requirements. While we are excited about the potential of this 

authority, we will continue to look for and try new ideas to improve forest management on Forest Service lands. 

Question 5. Does the Forest Service need more authority from Congress to employ 

any new techniques demonstrated successful in Washington or other states? 

Answer. As mentioned in response to Question 1, more than new tools, the Forest 

Service requires a comprehensive fix to the fire budget that both ends fire transfer 

and addresses the chronic drain on non-fire programs. 

[ATTACHMENT 1] 

Fire vs. Non-Fire Bar Data 

Values Fire Non-Fire Grand Total 

FY 1991 297,934 2,017,955 2,315,889 13% 87% 13% 87% 

FY 1992 298,000 2,051,934 2,349,934 13% 87% 13% 87% 

FY 1993 374,574 1,984,541 2,359,115 16% 84% 16% 84% 

FY 1994 564,290 2,008,609 2,572,899 22% 78% 22% 78% 

FY 1995 FY 1995 385,638 385,638 1,972,026 1,972,026 2,357,664 2,357,664 16% 84% 

FY 1996 485,485 1,906,031 2,391,516 

FY 1997 830,016 1,830,497 2,660,513 

FY 1998 584,559 2,131,309 2,715,868 

FY 1999 560,176 2,088,541 2,648,717 

FY 2000 617,956 2,192,977 2,810,933 

FY 2001 1,376,370 2,507,400 3,883,770 

FY 2002 1,214,349 2,570,067 3,784,416 

FY 2003 1,370,968 2,604,609 3,975,577 

FY 2004 1,622,963 2,569,203 4,192,166 

FY 2005 1,703,016 2,535,104 4,238,120 

FY 2006 1,746,091 2,454,881 4,200,972 

FY 2007 1,823,603 2,504,193 4,327,796 

FY 2008 1,943,477 2,543,751 4,487,228 

FY 2009 2,131,630 2,630,936 4,762,566 

FY 2010 2,591,737 2,797,375 5,389,112 

FY 2011 2,458,460 2,638,286 5,096,746 

FT 2012 2,289,848 2,556,028 4,845,876 

FY 2013 2,167,762 2,384,707 4,552,469 

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Fire vs. Non-Fire Bar Data—Continued 

Values Fire Non-Fire Grand Total 

FY 2014 2,477,302 2,419,309 4,896,611 51% 49% 51% 49% 

FY 2015 FY 2015 2,636,358 2,436,888 2,636,358 2,436,888 5,073,246 5,073,246 52% 48% 

All WFM vs. All other mainheads. All other mainheads. 

Fire vs. Non-Fire Bar Data (2) 

Values Fire Non-Fire Grand Total 

FY 1995 385,638 1,972,026 2,357,664 

FY 1996 485,485 1,906,031 2,391,516 

FY 1997 830,016 1,830,497 2,660,513 

FY 1998 584,559 2,131,309 2,715,868 

FY 1999 560,176 2,088,541 2,648,717 

FY 2000 617,956 2,192,977 2,810,933 

FY 2001 1,376,370 2,507,400 3,883,770 

FY 2002 1,214,349 2,570,067 3,784,416 

FY 2003 1,370,968 2,604,609 3,975,577 

FY 2004 1,622,963 2,569,203 4,192,166 

FY 2005 1,703,016 2,535,104 4,238,120 

FY 2006 1,746,091 2,454,881 4,200,972 

FY 2007 1,823,603 2,504,193 4,327,796 

FY 2008 1,943,477 2,543,751 4,487,228 

FY 2009 2,131,630 2,630,936 4,762,566 

FY 2010 2,591,737 2,797,375 5,389,112 

FY 2011 2,458,460 2,638,286 5,096,746 

FT 2012 2,289,848 2,556,028 4,845,876 

FY 2013 2,167,762 2,384,707 4,552,469 

FY 2014 2,477,302 2,419,309 4,896,611 

FY 2015 2,636,358 2,436,888 5,073,246 

Fire vs. Non-Fire Bar Data (3) 

Values 1 2 Grand Total 

FY 1991 289,527 2,026,362 2,315,889 13% 87% 13% 87% 

FY 1992 290,281 2,059,653 2,349,934 12% 88% 12% 88% 

FY 1993 362,379 1,996,736 2,359,115 15% 85% 15% 85% 

FY 1994 551,594 2,021,305 2,572,899 21% 79% 21% 79% 

FY 1995 369,232 369,232 1,988,432 1,988,432 2,357,664 2,357,664 16% 84% 

FY 1996 485,485 1,906,031 2,391,516 

FY 1997 830,016 1,830,497 2,660,513 

FY 1998 584,559 2,131,309 2,715,868 

FY 1999 560,176 2,088,541 2,648,717 

FY 2000 617,656 2,193,277 2,810,933 

FY 2001 930,467 2,953,303 3,883,770 

FY 2002 877,939 2,906,477 3,784,416 

FY 2003 1,029,960 2,945,617 3,975,577 

FY 2004 1,268,751 2,923,415 4,192,166 

FY 2005 1,325,329 2,912,791 4,238,120 

FY 2006 1,350,891 2,850,081 4,200,972 

FY 2007 1,406,859 2,920,937 4,327,796 

FY 2008 1,511,439 2,975,789 4,487,228 

FY 2009 1,668,947 3,093,619 4,762,566 

FY 2010 2,085,505 3,303,607 5,389,112 

FY 2011 1,959,579 3,137,167 5,096,746 

[FY] 2012 1,857,681 2,988,195 4,845,876 

FY 2013 1,757,430 2,795,039 4,552,469 

FY 2014 2,053,068 2,843,543 4,896,611 42% 58% 42% 58% 

FY 2015 2,156,900 2,916,346 2,916,346 5,073,246 5,073,246 43% 57% 

1Means Suppression, Preparedness, FLAME. Means Suppression, Preparedness, FLAME. 

2Means all other BLIs. Means all other BLIs. 

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Forest Service Approprations: Fire vs. Non-Fire 

Sum of FY 1999 Enacted 

Fire 13% 13% 

Non-Fire 87% 87% 

Grand Total 100% 

FY 1999 Forest Service Appropriations: Fire vs. Non-Fire 

FY 1999 

National Forest System 56% 

Wildland Fire Management 13% 

State and Private Forestry 8% 

Capital Improvement and Maintenance 12% 

Land Acquisition, Special Acts & Exchanges 4% 


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FY 1999—Continued 

Forest & Rangeland Research 7% 

Grand Total 100% 

Forest Service FY 1991 Appropriations by Fund 

Sum of FY 2015 Enacted 

Fire 52% 52% 

Non-Fire 48% 48% 

Grand Total 100% 


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FY 2015 Forest Service Appropriations: Fire vs. Non-Fire 

FY 2015 

National Forest System 29% 

Wildland Fire Management 52% 

State and Private Forestry 5% 

Capital Improvement and Maintenance 7% 

Land Acquisition, Special Acts & Exchanges 1% 

Forest & Rangeland Research 6% 

Grand Total 100% 

Forest Service Enacted Appropriations Fire vs. Non-Fire Real (Inflation 

Adjusted) to FY 2015 Dollars 

Fire Non-Fire 

1990 968,987 2,993,817 

1991 499,875 3,385,734 

1992 478,015 3,291,459 

1993 581,187 3,079,202 

1994 859,682 3,060,068 

1995 571,047 2,920,146 

1996 704,884 2,767,398 

1997 1,180,252 2,602,899 

1998 826,561 3,013,651 

1999 783,696 2,921,904 

2000 844,203 2,995,872 

2001 1,835,105 3,343,100 

2002 1,597,017 3,379,952 

2003 1,765,537 3,354,224 

2004 2,039,409 3,228,450 

2005 2,074,692 3,088,380 

2006 2,060,220 2,896,525 

2007 2,098,789 2,882,081 

2008 2,163,166 2,831,294 

2009 2,365,470 2,919,550 

2010 2,836,342 3,061,388 

2011 2,636,151 2,828,975 

2012 2,404,926 2,684,483 

2013 2,240,236 2,464,434 

2014 2,523,696 2,464,617 

2015 2,636,358 2,436,888 

Inflators/Deflators: http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/ 

fy2015/assets/hist.pdf. Table 10.1. 

Excludes Supplemental and Emergency Funding, Fire Transfers and Repayments, 

and Recissions (except FY 2012 the Recission was already included in the enacted appropriation. 


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FY 1990 to [FY] 2015 FS Funding 

FY 1990 

Enacted 

FY 1991 

Enacted 

FY 1992 

Enacted 

FY 1993 

Enacted 

FY 1994 

Enacted 

FY 1995 

Enacted 

FY 1996 

Enacted 

FY 1997 

Enacted 

FY 1998 

Enacted 

FY 1999 

Enacted FY 2000 Enacted FY 2001 Enacted FY 2002 Enacted 

Forest & Rangeland Research 

Forest & Rangeland Research 150,925 167,627 180,509 182,715 193,083 193,509 177,854 179,786 187,796 197,444 217,694 230,511 241,304 

Forest and Rangeland Research 

Total 150,925 167,627 180,509 182,715 193,083 193,509 177,854 179,786 187,796 197,444 217,694 230,511 241,304 

State and Private Forestry 

Landscape Scale Restoration Forest Health Management—Federal 

Lands 27,097 25,165 33,165 37,032 37,325 40,303 41,292 43,304 

Forest Health Management—Cooperative 

Lands 109,626 7,805 7,806 15,000 27,966 17,200 21,772 22,511 25,000 

Forest Health Management—Cooperative 

Lands Fire Mgt 13,689 17,001 18,001 20,137 

Forest Health Management—Emergency 

Pest Mgt 12,472 

Forest Management and Utilization 25,321 74,206 68,116 77,582 55,689 State Fire Assistance 21,510 23,929 24,945 25,310 Volunteer Fire Assistance 2,000 3,240 4,989 5,053 Fire Protection 17,078 15,749 16,618 16,885 Forest Stewardship 25,908 23,378 23,378 32,303 28,830 29,833 32,782 33,171 Forest Legacy Program 3,000 2,000 4,000 7,012 29,933 59,868 65,000 Community Forest & Open Space Conservation Urban and Community Forestry 28,310 25,454 25,505 40,929 30,540 30,896 35,642 36,000 Economic Action Programs 16,020 14,517 17,150 11,465 17,305 20,198 41,538 35,680 Forest Resources Info & Analysis 4,989 5,015 International Forestry 6,996 4,987 4,989 5,263 Emergency Pest Suppression Fund 14,671 12,253 14,415 16,661 Forest Pest Management 47,586 60,150 57,205 40,605 Stewardship Incentives Program 18,283 4,500 4,500 16,240 3,000 Pacific Northwest Assistance Prog 17,066 16,012 16,762 14,985 9,000 7,856 9,579 9,425 Special Projects 19,663 32,309 20,848 21,155 

State and Private Forestry Total 109,648 182,414 162,787 170,898 184,564 173,580 153,494 155,461 205,057 170,722 207,960 295,596 291,221 

National Forest System 

IRR Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Restoration Partnerships 

107 

FY 1990 to [FY] 2015 FS Funding 

[Continued] 

FY 2003 

Enacted 

FY 2004 

Enacted 

FY 2005 

Enacted 

FY 2006 

Enacted 

FY 2007 

Enacted 

FY 2008 

Enacted 

FY 2009 

Enacted 

FY 2010 

Enacted 

FY 2011 

Enacted 

FY 2012 

Enacted 

w/ 

Recission 

FY 2013 

Enacted 

FY 2014 

Enacted 

FY 2015 

Enacted 

Forest & Rangeland Research 

Forest & Rangeland Research 250,049 266,387 276,384 277,711 280,488 285,926 296,380 312,012 306,637 295,300 279,854 292,805 296,000 

Forest and Rangeland Research 

Total 250,049 266,387 276,384 277,711 280,488 285,926 296,380 312,012 306,637 295,300 279,854 292,805 296,000 

State and Private Forestry 

Landscape Scale Restoration 14,000 14,000 Forest Health Management—Federal 

Lands 50,047 53,829 54,236 53,163 53,963 54,110 54,110 57,282 56,737 47,425 44,944 58,922 58,922 

Forest Health Management—Cooperative 

Lands 30,836 44,741 47,629 46,904 47,104 44,542 46,292 48,573 48,821 39,999 36,894 45,655 45,655 

Forest Health Management—Cooperative 

Lands Fire Mgt 

Forest Health Management—Emergency 

Pest Mgt 

Forest Management and Utilization State Fire Assistance 45,486 33,384 32,920 32,895 32,895 32,605 35,000 39,147 32,358 30,488 25,759 Volunteer Fire Assistance 5,007 5,037 5,917 5,912 5,912 5,906 6,000 7,000 6,680 6,669 6,320 Fire Protection Forest Stewardship 32,012 31,884 32,320 34,144 41,947 29,532 27,000 29,369 32,548 28,814 30,441 22,398 23,036 Forest Legacy Program 68,380 64,134 57,134 56,524 56,536 52,317 49,445 76,460 52,894 53,303 50,515 50,965 53,000 Community Forest & Open Space Conservation 1,000 1,997 1,892 2,000 2,000 Urban and Community Forestry 35,999 34,864 31,950 28,413 30,130 27,691 29,541 30,377 32,040 31,327 30,701 28,040 28,040 Economic Action Programs 26,268 25,606 19,032 9,537 4,206 4,973 5,000 Forest Resources Info & Analysis 4,964 4,939 4,958 4,588 4,588 4,516 5,000 5,035 5,026 4,917 4,660 International Forestry 5,713 5,926 6,410 6,886 6,886 7,383 8,500 9,818 9,492 7,987 7,570 8,000 8,000 Emergency Pest Suppression Fund Forest Pest Management Stewardship Incentives Program Pacific Northwest Assistance Prog Special Projects 

State and Private Forestry Total 304,712 304,344 292,506 278,966 279,961 262,808 265,861 308,061 277,596 252,926 239,696 229,980 232,653 

National Forest System 

IRR 0 Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration 14,970 39,936 37,885 40,000 40,000 Restoration Partnerships 2,000 

108 

FY 1990 to [FY] 2015 FS Funding—Cont. 

FY 1990 

Enacted 

FY 1991 

Enacted 

FY 1992 

Enacted 

FY 1993 

Enacted 

FY 1994 

Enacted 

FY 1995 

Enacted 

FY 1996 

Enacted 

FY 1997 

Enacted 

FY 1998 

Enacted 

FY 1999 

Enacted FY 2000 Enacted FY 2001 Enacted FY 2002 Enacted 

Land Management Planning, Assessment 

& Monitoring 147,846 149,732 130,088 130,088 

Land Management Planning 36,174 40,000 50,167 78,134 70,358 Inventory and Monitoring 91,931 80,714 138,326 174,069 173,316 Recreation, Heritage & Wilderness 203,864 229,763 245,500 Wildlife & Fisheries Habitat Mgmt 82,559 106,625 112,500 116,364 83,736 93,182 85,561 85,811 96,768 100,376 128,744 131,847 Wildlife Habitat Management 36,097 Inland Fisheries Habitat Mgmt 23,343 Anadromous Fisheries Hab Mgmt 25,416 TE&S Species Mgmg 30,001 Grazing Management 32,831 33,782 34,775 Forest Products 237,891 255,281 266,340 Timber Sales Admin. and Mgmt. 251,796 263,133 263,745 219,033 Vegetation & Watershed Mgmt 166,002 181,634 190,113 Reforestation and Stand Improvement 68,346 71,959 66,521 62,213 Minerals & Geology Management 28,414 30,380 34,332 34,812 38,025 38,932 35,017 35,767 36,000 37,050 46,172 47,840 48,956 Landownership Management 61,384 61,566 57,053 57,053 61,987 61,139 82,565 86,418 88,434 Real Estate Management 25,973 31,192 35,430 36,024 Law Enforcement Operations 15,479 55,130 63,516 59,637 59,637 63,967 66,288 69,911 74,194 79,000 Cooperative Law Enforcement 11,082 8,546 8,377 Drug Enforcement 6,992 7,073 Valles Caldera National Preserve 988 2,800 Recreation Use 153,613 198,817 216,396 229,742 213,817 220,136 211,151 211,151 218,260 187,587 Rangeland Management 32,966 39,473 43,153 44,443 16,367 18,473 27,012 38,012 45,314 57,050 Forestland Management 251,538 237,174 240,409 251,768 274,580 285,200 Soil, Water & Air Management 61,612 72,153 76,243 72,325 36,250 48,282 42,014 42,114 51,196 56,097 Centennial of Service Challenge Infrastructure Management 105,656 110,088 104,027 104,027 109,218 70,669 Maintenance of Facilities 21,142 24,866 26,283 26,495 Forest Road Maintenance 96,384 91,303 85,891 82,198 Forest Trail Maintenance 24,459 28,228 30,549 31,332 Land Line Location 30,710 29,844 32,251 30,873 Quincy Library Group Implementation 1,996 Tongass NF Timber Pipeline 4,989 General Administration 272,154 292,333 303,786 305,941 298,174 296,982 263,698 259,353 261,888 255,264 Land Between the Lakes NRA 5,365 

National Forest System Total [a] 1,161,210 [b] 1,295,844 [c] 1,342,530 1,307,274 1,307,923 1,338,063 1,255,667 1,274,781 1,347,283 1,297,434 1,147,951 1,297,832 1,331,439 

Capital Improvement and Maintenance 

Facilities 40,593 82,578 81,056 87,440 103,147 65,904 48,529 59,974 50,656 69,905 153,648 165,930 185,447 Roads 164,356 173,072 168,988 140,586 149,655 98,185 94,942 93,000 88,064 98,009 219,634 235,029 229,666 Trails 18,611 21,479 21,667 27,233 32,448 20,009 22,000 27,295 29,554 62,361 66,578 70,075 Deferred Maintenance 49,890 61,000 Legacy Roads & Trails 

109 

FY 1990 to [FY] 2015 FS Funding—Cont. 

[Continued] 

FY 2003 

Enacted 

FY 2004 

Enacted 

FY 2005 

Enacted 

FY 2006 

Enacted 

FY 2007 

Enacted 

FY 2008 

Enacted 

FY 2009 

Enacted 

FY 2010 

Enacted 

FY 2011 

Enacted 

FY 2012 

Enacted 

w/ 

Recission 

FY 2013 

Enacted 

FY 2014 

Enacted 

FY 2015 

Enacted 

Land Management Planning, Assessment 

& Monitoring 

Land Management Planning 71,726 69,995 63,167 57,675 57,675 48,833 48,833 45,917 45,033 39,936 37,203 37,754 37,754 Inventory and Monitoring 174,216 169,659 167,302 166,638 166,638 166,580 167,580 170,502 167,219 161,721 150,652 151,019 151,019 Recreation, Heritage & Wilderness 252,542 255,050 257,343 258,797 258,797 262,635 277,635 285,117 281,627 281,176 261,932 261,719 261,719 Wildlife & Fisheries Habitat Mgmt 132,936 135,683 134,749 131,734 131,734 132,385 139,385 143,014 140,260 140,036 130,887 140,466 140,466 Wildlife Habitat Management Inland Fisheries Habitat Mgmt Anadromous Fisheries Hab Mgmt TE&S Species Mgmg Grazing Management 40,584 45,899 48,034 47,826 47,826 48,163 50,000 50,714 49,738 55,356 51,568 55,356 55,356 Forest Products 263,628 265,013 273,247 277,583 319,614 322,503 332,666 336,722 336,049 335,511 318,280 339,130 339,130 Timber Sales Admin. and Mgmt. Vegetation & Watershed Mgmt 189,703 193,689 189,614 179,852 176,849 177,437 180,437 187,960 184,341 184,046 172,173 184,716 184,716 Reforestation and Stand Improvement Minerals & Geology Management 52,293 53,399 55,747 84,164 84,164 84,143 85,470 87,240 83,560 83,426 77,716 76,423 76,423 Landownership Management 92,411 91,550 92,129 90,932 90,932 91,299 93,299 95,606 91,765 85,738 79,869 77,730 77,730 Real Estate Management Law Enforcement Operations 80,275 82,828 86,014 110,937 115,000 131,910 135,500 145,047 144,254 143,829 133,984 126,653 126,653Cooperative Law Enforcement Drug Enforcement Valles Caldera National Preserve 3,130 3,112 3,599 5,074 3,500 3,691 4,000 3,500 3,432 3,426 3,192 3,364 3,364 Recreation Use Rangeland Management Forestland Management Soil, Water & Air Management Centennial of Service Challenge 9,861 4,434 Maintenance of Facilities Forest Road Maintenance Forest Trail Maintenance Land Line Location Quincy Library Group Implementation Tongass NF Timber Pipeline General Administration Land Between the Lakes NRA 

National Forest System Total 1,353,444 1,365,877 1,380,806 1,415,646 1,452,729 1,469,579 1,514,805 1,551,339 1,542,248 1,554,137 1,455,341 1,496,330 1,494,330 

Capital Improvement and Maintenance 

Facilities 202,312 214,366 198,769 123,698 130,140 121,755 126,453 135,010 135,000 75,664 70,572 71,000 71,600 Roads 231,344 234,538 226,396 220,688 223,798 227,924 228,825 236,521 195,195 182,525 165,959 166,000 168,094 Trails 69,226 74,718 75,707 74,205 73,362 76,365 81,015 85,381 88,381 81,851 74,999 75,000 77,530 Deferred Maintenance 45,568 31,605 13,829 12,743 9,100 8,958 9,100 9,141 9,158 9,121 2,986 3,000 3,150 Legacy Roads & Trails 39,766 50,000 90,000 44,910 44,928 39,814 35,000 40,000 

110 

FY 1990 to [FY] 2015 FS Funding—Cont. 

FY 1990 

Enacted 

FY 1991 

Enacted 

FY 1992 

Enacted 

FY 1993 

Enacted 

FY 1994 

Enacted 

FY 1995 

Enacted 

FY 1996 

Enacted 

FY 1997 

Enacted 

FY 1998 

Enacted 

FY 1999 

Enacted FY 2000 Enacted FY 2001 Enacted FY 2002 Enacted 

Road Maintenance & Decommission 99,884 Land Between the Lakes NRA 1,200 

Capital Improvement and Maintenance Total 223,560 277,129 [d] 271,711 255,259 252,802 196,537 163,480 174,974 166,015 297,352 436,843 517,427 546,188 

Land Acquisition, Special Acts & Exchanges 

Land Acquisition 63,433 88,695 88,306 62,412 64,250 63,873 39,392 40,575 219,976 117,918 155,835 150,872 149,742 Land Acq, NF Special Acts 1,054 1,097 1,134 1,180 1,212 1,247 1,069 1,048 1,069 1,069 1,068 1,067 1,069 Complete Land Exchanges 13 105 154 151 212 794 341 364 210 210 234 233 234 

Land Acquisition, Special Acts & 

Exchanges Total 64,500 89,897 89,594 63,743 65,674 65,914 40,802 41,987 221,255 119,197 157,137 152,172 151,045 

Other Appropriations 

Range Betterment Fund 4,915 4,546 4,795 4,647 4,545 4,419 4,647 3,453 3,811 3,300 3,300 3,293 3,290 Gifts, Donations, and Bequests 3 1 8 5 18 4 87 55 92 92 92 92 92 Subsistence Management—Alaska 3,000 5,488 5,488 SE Alaska Economic Assistance 110,000 22,000 4,989 Early Winters Land Exchange 497 

Other Appropriations Total 4,918 5,044 4,803 4,652 4,563 4,423 114,734 3,508 3,903 6,392 25,392 13,862 8,870 

Subtotal Non-Fire Discretionary 1,714,761 2,017,955 2,051,934 1,984,541 2,008,609 1,972,026 1,906,031 1,830,497 2,131,309 2,088,541 2,192,977 2,507,400 2,570,067 

Wildland Fire Management 

Preparedness [e] 167,355 171,492 179,692 176,968 173,372 143,604 295,315 319,315 319,167 324,876 408,768 611,143 622,618 Suppression [f] 378,812 118,035 [g] 110,589 185,411 378,222 225,628 190,170 510,701 265,392 235,300 208,888 319,324 255,321 Hazardous Fuels 12,696 205,158 209,010 Rehabilitation and Restoration 141,687 3,668 Fire Research and Development 15,965 22,265 Joint Fire Sciences Program 8,000 National Fire Plan—Forest Health Management—Federal Lands 11,974 6,982 NFP—Forest Health Management—Cooperative Lands 4,992 NFP—State Fire Assistance 50,383 50,383 NFP—Volunteer Fire Assistance 8,262 8,262 Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Fund NFP—Economic Action Programs 12,474 12,472 

111 

FY 1990 to [FY] 2015 FS Funding—Cont. 

[Continued] 

FY 2003 

Enacted 

FY 2004 

Enacted 

FY 2005 

Enacted 

FY 2006 

Enacted 

FY 2007 

Enacted 

FY 2008 

Enacted 

FY 2009 

Enacted 

FY 2010 

Enacted 

FY 2011 

Enacted 

FY 2012 

Enacted 

w/ 

Recission 

FY 2013 

Enacted 

FY 2014 

Enacted 

FY 2015 

Enacted 

Road Maintenance & Decommission Land Between the Lakes NRA 

Capital Improvement and Maintenance Total 548,450 555,227 514,701 431,334 436,400 474,768 495,393 556,053 472,644 394,089 354,330 350,000 360,374 

Land Acquisition, Special Acts & Exchanges 

Land Acquisition 132,945 66,363 61,007 41,772 41,936 41,827 49,775 63,522 32,934 52,521 49,762 43,525 47,500 Land Acq, NF Special Acts 1,062 1,056 1,054 1,053 1,053 1,037 1,050 1,050 1,048 953 903 912 950 Complete Land Exchanges 4,970 2,286 231 231 3,678 221 41 116 227 217 216 

Land Acquisition, Special Acts & 

Exchanges Total 138,977 69,705 62,292 43,056 46,667 43,085 50,866 64,688 33,982 53,701 50,665 44,654 48,666 

Other Appropriations 

Range Betterment Fund 3,380 2,106 2,472 3,130 2,876 2,556 2,581 2,590 2,552 3,257 2,338 3,000 2,320 Gifts, Donations, and Bequests 91 90 64 63 63 55 50 50 50 45 45 40 45 Subsistence Management—Alaska 5,506 5,467 5,879 4,975 5,009 4,974 5,000 2,582 2,577 2,573 2,438 2,500 2,500 SE Alaska Economic Assistance Early Winters Land Exchange 

Other Appropriations Total 8,977 7,663 8,415 8,168 7,948 7,585 7,631 5,222 5,179 5,875 4,821 5,540 4,865 

Subtotal Non-Fire Discretionary 2,604,609 2,569,203 2,535,104 2,454,881 2,504,193 2,543,751 2,630,936 2,797,375 2,638,286 2,556,028 2,384,707 2,419,309 2,436,888 

Wildland Fire Management 

Preparedness 611,996 671,621 676,470 660,705 665,382 665,819 675,000 675,000 673,650 1,004,442 948,651 1,057,580 1,145,840 Suppression 417,964 597,130 648,859 690,186 741,477 845,620 993,947 997,505 995,511 537,858 509,812 680,488 708,000 Hazardous Fuels 226,626 233,479 262,539 280,119 301,258 310,086 328,086 350,285 339,604 317,076 301,056 306,500 361,749 Rehabilitation and Restoration 7,078 6,914 12,819 6,189 6,189 10,828 11,500 11,600 11,477 Fire Research and Development 21,288 22,025 21,719 22,789 22,789 23,519 23,917 23,917 23,869 21,699 20,603 19,795 19,795 Joint Fire Sciences Program 7,948 7,901 7,889 7,882 7,882 7,875 8,000 8,000 7,984 7,250 6,884 6,914 6,914 National Fire Plan—Forest Health Management—Federal Lands 6,910 14,815 14,792 14,779 14,779 14,030 17,252 20,752 20,710 15,958 15,151 NFP—Forest Health Management—Cooperative Lands 9,914 9,877 9,861 9,853 9,853 9,858 9,928 11,428 11,405 8,353 7,931 NFP—State Fire Assistance 46,252 51,063 40,179 45,816 46,221 47,967 55,000 71,250 64,870 55,475 52,672 78,000 78,000 NFP—Volunteer Fire Assistance 8,186 8,138 7,889 7,773 7,773 7,875 9,000 9,000 8,982 6,356 6,035 13,025 13,000 Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Fund 9,980 NFP—Economic Action Programs 4,968 

112 

FY 1990 to [FY] 2015 FS Funding—Cont. 

FY 1990 

Enacted 

FY 1991 

Enacted 

FY 1992 

Enacted 

FY 1993 

Enacted 

FY 1994 

Enacted 

FY 1995 

Enacted 

FY 1996 

Enacted 

FY 1997 

Enacted 

FY 1998 

Enacted 

FY 1999 

Enacted FY 2000 Enacted FY 2001 Enacted FY 2002 Enacted 

Fire Facilities 10,376 Land Between the Lakes NRA 300 Fuels Management 8,837 8,407 7,719 12,195 16,406 

Wildland Fire Management Total [h] 555,004 297,934 298,000 374,574 564,290 385,638 485,485 830,016 584,559 560,176 617,956 1,376,370 1,214,349 

FLAME Wildfire Suppression Reserve 

Fund Subtotal Fire + FLAME 555,004 297,934 298,000 374,574 564,290 385,638 485,485 830,016 584,559 560,176 617,956 1,376,370 1,214,349 

Total Discretionary 2,269,765 2,315,889 2,349,934 2,359,115 2,572,899 2,357,664 2,391,516 2,660,513 2,715,868 2,648,717 2,810,933 3,883,770 3,784,416 

Suppression Cap Adjustment 

Note: Discretionary funding only. Does not include fire borrowing or fire transfer repayment. 2,478,916 2,736,480 

¥2,391,516 ¥2,660,513 

87,400 75,967 

¥87,400 ¥75,967 

0 0 

[a]Does not include: FY89 Fire repayment 22,962; Reappropriation of unobligate balances 15,243; FY 89 Hugo transfer to fire protection 1,000. [b]Does not include: Reappropration of unobligatde balances 5,351; Transfer from timber salvage sales 3,884. [c]Does not include: Reappropriation of unobligated balances 104,528; Los Angeles Riots 4,640; 5 percent bonus 715; CFO transfer to USDA ¥98; Exxon Valdez Oil Spill 2,739. [d]Does not include: Los Angeles Riots 2,750; 5 percent bonus 56. [e]Was really called ‘‘Fire Presuppression.’’ [f]Was called ‘‘Fighting Forest Fires.’’ [g]Does not include: Transfer from Forest Service Fire Protection 7,000. [h]Does not include: Hurricane Hugo 900; Firefighting Supplemental 256,700; Repayment to FY89 NFS ¥22,962. 

113 

FY 1990 to [FY] 2015 FS Funding—Cont. 

[Continued] 

FY 2003 

Enacted 

FY 2004 

Enacted 

FY 2005 

Enacted 

FY 2006 

Enacted 

FY 2007 

Enacted 

FY 2008 

Enacted 

FY 2009 

Enacted 

FY 2010 

Enacted 

FY 2011 

Enacted 

FY 2012 

Enacted 

w/ 

Recission 

FY 2013 

Enacted 

FY 2014 

Enacted 

FY 2015 

Enacted 

Fire Facilities 1,838 Land Between the Lakes NRA Fuels Management 

Wildland Fire Management Total 1,370,968 1,622,963 1,703,016 1,746,091 1,823,603 1,943,477 2,131,630 2,178,737 2,168,042 1,974,467 1,868,795 2,162,302 2,333,298 

FLAME Wildfire Suppression Reserve 

Fund 413,000 290,418 315,381 298,967 315,000 303,060 Subtotal Fire + FLAME 1,370,968 1,622,963 1,703,016 1,746,091 1,823,603 1,943,477 2,131,630 2,591,737 2,458,460 2,289,848 2,167,762 2,477,302 2,636,358 

Total Discretionary 3,975,577 4,192,166 4,238,120 4,200,972 4,327,796 4,487,228 4,762,566 5,389,112 5,096,746 4,845,876 4,552,469 4,896,611 5,073,246 

114 

FY 1990 to 2015 FS for Pivot 

1/2 Approp. Agency Fund Program 

FY 

1990 

Enact. 

FY 

1991 

Enact. 

FY 

1992 

Enact. 

FY 

1993 

Enact. 

FY 

1994 

Enact. 

FY 

1995 

Enact. 

FY 

1996 

Enact. 

FY 

1997 

Enact. 

FY 

1998 

Enact. 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service Forest & Rangeland Research Forest & Rangeland Research 150,925 167,627 180,509 182,715 193,083 193,509 177,854 179,786 187,796 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Landscape Scale Restoration 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Forest Health Management—Federal 

Lands 

27,097 25,165 33,165 37,032 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Forest Health Management—Cooperative Lands 109,626 7,805 7,806 15,000 27,966 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Forest Health Management—Cooperative Lands Fire Mgt 13,689 17,001 18,001 20,137 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Forest Health Management—Emergency Pest Mgt 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Forest Management and Utilization 25,321 74,206 68,116 77,582 55,689 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry State Fire Assistance 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Volunteer Fire Assistance 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Fire Protection 17,078 15,749 16,618 16,885 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Forest Stewardship 25,908 23,378 23,378 32,303 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Forest Legacy Program 3,000 2,000 4,000 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Community Forest & Open Space Conservation 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Urban and Community Forestry 28,310 25,454 25,505 40,929 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Economic Action Programs 16,020 14,517 17,150 11,465 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Forest Resources Info & Analysis 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry International Forestry 6,996 4,987 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Emergency Pest Suppression Fund 14,671 12,253 14,415 16,661 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Forest Pest Management 47,586 60,150 57,205 40,605 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Stewardship Incentives Program 18,283 4,500 4,500 16,240 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Pacific Northwest Assistance Prog 17,066 16,012 16,762 14,985 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Special Projects 19,663 32,309 20,848 21,155 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System IRR 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Restoration Partnerships 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Land Management Planning, Assessment & Monitoring 147,846 149,732 130,088 130,088 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Land Management Planning 36,174 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Inventory and Monitoring 91,931 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Recreation, Heritage & Wilderness 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Wildlife & Fisheries Habitat Mgmt 82,559 106,625 112,500 116,364 83,736 93,182 85,561 85,811 96,768 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Wildlife Habitat Management 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Inland Fisheries Habitat Mgmt 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Anadromous Fisheries Hab Mgmt 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System TE&S Species Mgmg 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Grazing Management 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Forest Products 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Timber Sales Admin. and Mgmt. 251,796 263,133 263,745 219,033 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Vegetation & Watershed Mgmt 

115 

FY 1990 to 2015 FS for Pivot 

[Continued 1] 

1/2 Approp. Agency Fund Program 

FY 

1999 

Enact. 

FY 

2000 

Enact. 

FY 

2001 

Enact. 

FY 

2002 

Enact. 

FY 

2003 

Enact. 

FY 

2004 

Enact. 

FY 

2005 

Enact. 

FY 

2006 

Enact. 

FY 

2007 

Enact. 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service Forest & Rangeland Research Forest & Rangeland Research 197,444 217,694 230,511 241,304 250,049 266,387 276,384 277,711 280,488 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Landscape Scale Restoration 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Forest Health Management—Federal 

Lands 

37,325 40,303 41,292 43,304 50,047 53,829 54,236 53,163 53,963 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Forest Health Management—Cooperative Lands 17,200 21,772 22,511 25,000 30,836 44,741 47,629 46,904 47,104 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Forest Health Management—Cooperative Lands Fire Mgt 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Forest Health Management—Emergency Pest Mgt 12,472 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Forest Management and Utilization 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry State Fire Assistance 21,510 23,929 24,945 25,310 45,486 33,384 32,920 32,895 32,895 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Volunteer Fire Assistance 2,000 3,240 4,989 5,053 5,007 5,037 5,917 5,912 5,912 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Fire Protection 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Forest Stewardship 28,830 29,833 32,782 33,171 32,012 31,884 32,320 34,144 41,947 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Forest Legacy Program 7,012 29,933 59,868 65,000 68,380 64,134 57,134 56,524 56,536 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Community Forest & Open Space Conservation 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Urban and Community Forestry 30,540 30,896 35,642 36,000 35,999 34,864 31,950 28,413 30,130 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Economic Action Programs 17,305 20,198 41,538 35,680 26,268 25,606 19,032 9,537 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Forest Resources Info & Analysis 4,989 5,015 4,964 4,939 4,958 4,588 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry International Forestry 4,989 5,263 5,713 5,926 6,410 6,886 6,886 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Emergency Pest Suppression Fund 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Forest Pest Management 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Stewardship Incentives Program 3,000 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Pacific Northwest Assistance Prog 9,000 7,856 9,579 9,425 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Special Projects 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System IRR 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Restoration Partnerships 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Land Management Planning, Assessment & Monitoring 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Land Management Planning 40,000 50,167 78,134 70,358 71,726 69,995 63,167 57,675 57,675 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Inventory and Monitoring 80,714 138,326 174,069 173,316 174,216 169,659 167,302 166,638 166,638 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Recreation, Heritage & Wilderness 203,864 229,763 245,500 252,542 255,050 257,343 258,797 258,797 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Wildlife & Fisheries Habitat Mgmt 100,376 128,744 131,847 132,936 135,683 134,749 131,734 131,734 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Wildlife Habitat Management 36,097 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Inland Fisheries Habitat Mgmt 23,343 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Anadromous Fisheries Hab Mgmt 25,416 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System TE&S Species Mgmg 30,001 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Grazing Management 32,831 33,782 34,775 40,584 45,899 48,034 47,826 47,826 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Forest Products 237,891 255,281 266,340 263,628 265,013 273,247 277,583 319,614 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Timber Sales Admin. and Mgmt. 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Vegetation & Watershed Mgmt 166,002 181,634 190,113 189,703 193,689 189,614 179,852 176,849 

116 

FY 1990 to 2015 FS for Pivot—Cont. 

[Continued 2] 

1/2 Approp. Agency Fund Program 

FY 

2008 

Enact. 

FY 

2009 

Enact. 

FY 

2010 

Enact. 

FY 

2011 

Enact. 

FY 2012 

Enact. w/ 

Recission 

FY 

2013 

Enact. 

FY 

2014 

Enact. 

FY 

2015 

Enact. 

FY 

2016 

Enact. 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service Forest & Rangeland Research Forest & Rangeland Research 285,926 296,380 312,012 306,637 295,300 279,854 292,805 296,000 291,000 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Landscape Scale Restoration 14,000 14,000 14,000 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Forest Health Management—Federal 

Lands 

54,110 54,110 57,282 56,737 47,425 44,944 58,922 58,922 58,922 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Forest Health Management—Cooperative Lands 44,542 46,292 48,573 48,821 39,999 36,894 45,655 40,678 40,678 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Forest Health Management—Cooperative Lands Fire Mgt 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Forest Health Management—Emergency Pest Mgt 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Forest Management and Utilization 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry State Fire Assistance 32,605 35,000 39,147 32,358 30,488 25,759 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Volunteer Fire Assistance 5,906 6,000 7,000 6,680 6,669 6,320 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Fire Protection 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Forest Stewardship 29,532 27,000 29,369 32,548 28,814 30,441 22,398 23,036 23,036 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Forest Legacy Program 52,317 49,445 76,460 52,894 53,303 50,515 50,965 53,000 62,347 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Community Forest & Open Space 

Conservation 

1,000 1,997 1,892 2,000 2,000 2,000 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Urban and Community Forestry 27,691 29,541 30,377 32,040 31,327 30,701 28,040 28,040 28,040 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Economic Action Programs 4,206 4,973 5,000 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Forest Resources Info & Analysis 4,588 4,516 5,000 5,035 5,026 4,917 4,6602 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry International Forestry 7,383 8,500 9,818 9,492 7,987 7,570 8,000 8,000 8,000 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Emergency Pest Suppression Fund 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Forest Pest Management 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Stewardship Incentives Program 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Pacific Northwest Assistance Prog 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Special Projects 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System IRR 0 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration 14,970 39,936 37,885 40,000 40,000 40,000 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Restoration Partnerships 2,000 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Land Management Planning, Assessment & Monitoring 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Land Management Planning 48,833 48,833 45,917 45,033 39,936 37,203 37,754 37,754 36,998 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Inventory and Monitoring 166,580 167,580 170,502 167,219 161,721 150,652 151,019 151,019 147,998 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Recreation, Heritage & Wilderness 262,635 277,635 285,117 281,627 281,176 261,932 261,719 261,719 261,719 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Wildlife & Fisheries Habitat Mgmt 132,385 139,385 143,014 140,260 140,036 130,887 140,466 140,466 140,466 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Wildlife Habitat Management 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Inland Fisheries Habitat Mgmt 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Anadromous Fisheries Hab Mgmt 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System TE&S Species Mgmg 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Grazing Management 48,163 50,000 50,714 49,738 55,356 51,568 55,356 55,356 56,856 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Forest Products 322,503 332,666 336,722 336,049 335,511 318,280 339,130 339,130 359,805 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Timber Sales Admin. and Mgmt. 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Vegetation & Watershed Mgmt 177,437 180,437 187,960 184,341 184,046 172,173 184,716 184,716 184,716 

117 

FY 1990 to 2015 FS for Pivot—Cont. 

1/2 Approp. Agency Fund Program FY 1990 Enact. FY 1991 Enact. FY 1992 Enact. FY 1993 Enact. FY 1994 Enact. FY 1995 Enact. FY 1996 Enact. FY 1997 Enact. FY 1998 Enact. 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Reforestation and Stand Improvement 68,346 71,959 66,521 62,213 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Minerals & Geology Management 28,414 30,380 34,332 34,812 38,025 38,932 35,017 35,767 36,000 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Landownership Management 61,384 61,566 57,053 57,053 61,987 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Real Estate Management 25,973 31,192 35,430 36,024 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Law Enforcement Operations 15,479 55,130 63,516 59,637 59,637 63,967 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Cooperative Law Enforcement 11,082 8,546 8,377 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Drug Enforcement 6,992 7,073 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Valles Caldera National Preserve 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Recreation Use 153,613 198,817 216,396 229,742 213,817 220,136 211,151 211,151 218,260 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Rangeland Management 32,966 39,473 43,153 44,443 16,367 18,473 27,012 38,012 45,314 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Forestland Management 251,538 237,174 240,409 251,768 274,580 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Soil, Water & Air Management 61,612 72,153 76,243 72,325 36,250 48,282 42,014 42,114 51,196 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Centennial of Service Challenge 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Infrastructure Management 105,656 110,088 104,027 104,027 109,218 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Maintenance of Facilities 21,142 24,866 26,283 26,495 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Forest Road Maintenance 96,384 91,303 85,891 82,198 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Forest Trail Maintenance 24,459 28,228 30,549 31,332 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Land Line Location 30,710 29,844 32,251 30,873 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Quincy Library Group Implementation 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Tongass NF Timber Pipeline 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System General Administration 272,154 292,333 303,786 305,941 298,174 296,982 263,698 259,353 261,888 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Land Between the Lakes NRA 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Capital Improvement and Maintenance Facilities 40,593 82,578 81,056 87,440 103,147 65,904 48,529 59,974 50,656 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Capital Improvement and Maintenance Roads 164,356 173,072 168,988 140,586 149,655 98,185 94,942 93,000 88,064 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Capital Improvement and Maintenance Trails 18,611 21,479 21,667 27,233 32,448 20,009 22,000 27,295 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Capital Improvement and Maintenance Deferred Maintenance 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Capital Improvement and Maintenance Legacy Roads & Trails 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Capital Improvement and Maintenance Road Maintenance & Decommis- sion 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Capital Improvement and Maintenance Land Between the Lakes NRA 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Land Acquisition, Special Acts & 

Exchanges 

Land Acquisition 63,433 88,695 88,306 62,412 64,250 63,873 39,392 40,575 219,976 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service Land Acquisition, Special Acts & 

Exchanges 

Land Acq., NF Special Acts 1,054 1,097 1,134 1,180 1,212 1,247 1,069 1,048 1,069 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service Land Acquisition, Special Acts & 

Exchanges 

Complete Land Exchanges 13 105 154 151 212 794 341 364 210 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service Other Appropriations Range Betterment Fund 4,915 4,546 4,795 4,647 4,545 4,419 4,647 3,453 3,811 

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[Continued 1] 

1/2 Approp. Agency Fund Program FY 1999 Enact. FY 2000 Enact. FY 2001 Enact. FY 2002 Enact. FY 2003 Enact. FY 2004 Enact. FY 2005 Enact. FY 2006 Enact. FY 2007 Enact. 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Reforestation and Stand Improvement 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Minerals & Geology Management 37,050 46,172 47,840 48,956 52,293 53,399 55,747 84,164 84,164 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Landownership Management 61,139 82,565 86,418 88,434 92,411 91,550 92,129 90,932 90,932 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Real Estate Management 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Law Enforcement Operations 66,288 69,911 74,194 79,000 80,275 82,828 86,014 110,937 115,000 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Cooperative Law Enforcement 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Drug Enforcement 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Valles Caldera National Preserve 988 2,800 3,130 3,112 3,599 5,074 3,500 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Recreation Use 187,587 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Rangeland Management 57,050 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Forestland Management 285,200 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Soil, Water & Air Management 56,097 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Centennial of Service Challenge 9,861 4,434 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Infrastructure Management 70,669 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Maintenance of Facilities 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Forest Road Maintenance 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Forest Trail Maintenance 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Land Line Location 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Quincy Library Group Implementation 1,996 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Tongass NF Timber Pipeline 4,989 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System General Administration 255,264 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Land Between the Lakes NRA 5,365 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Capital Improvement and Maintenance Facilities 69,905 153,648 165,930 185,447 202,312 214,366 198,769 123,698 130,140 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Capital Improvement and Maintenance Roads 98,009 219,634 235,029 229,666 231,344 234,538 226,396 220,688 223,798 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Capital Improvement and Maintenance Trails 29,554 62,361 66,578 70,075 69,226 74,718 75,707 74,205 73,362 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Capital Improvement and Maintenance Deferred Maintenance 49,890 61,000 45,568 31,605 13,829 12,743 9,100 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Capital Improvement and Maintenance Legacy Roads & Trails 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Capital Improvement and Maintenance Road Maintenance & Decommis- sion 99,884 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Capital Improvement and Maintenance Land Between the Lakes NRA 1,200 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Land Acquisition, Special Acts & 

Exchanges 

Land Acquisition 117,918 155,835 150,872 149,742 132,945 66,363 61,007 41,772 41,936 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service Land Acquisition, Special Acts & 

Exchanges 

Land Acq., NF Special Acts 1,069 1,068 1,067 1,069 1,062 1,056 1,054 1,053 1,053 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service Land Acquisition, Special Acts & 

Exchanges 

Complete Land Exchanges 210 234 233 234 4,970 2,286 231 231 3,678 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service Other Appropriations Range Betterment Fund 3,300 3,300 3,293 3,290 3,380 2,106 2,472 3,130 2,876 

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[Continued 2] 

1/2 Approp. Agency Fund Program FY 2008 Enact. FY 2009 Enact. FY 2010 Enact. FY 2011 Enact. FY 2012 Enact. w/ Recission FY 2013 Enact. FY 2014 Enact. FY 2015 Enact. FY 2016 Enact. 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Reforestation and Stand Improvement 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Minerals & Geology Management 84,143 85,470 87,240 83,560 83,426 77,716 76,423 76,423 76,423 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Landownership Management 91,299 93,299 95,606 91,765 85,738 79,869 77,730 77,730 77,730 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Real Estate Management 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Law Enforcement Operations 131,910 135,500 145,047 144,254 143,829 133,984 126,653 126,653 126,653 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Cooperative Law Enforcement 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Drug Enforcement 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Valles Caldera National Preserve 3,691 4,000 3,500 3,432 3,426 3,192 3,364 3,364 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Recreation Use 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Rangeland Management 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Forestland Management 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Soil, Water & Air Management 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Centennial of Service Challenge 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Infrastructure Management 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Maintenance of Facilities 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Forest Road Maintenance 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Forest Trail Maintenance 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Land Line Location 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Quincy Library Group Implementation 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Tongass NF Timber Pipeline 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System General Administration 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Land Between the Lakes NRA 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Capital Improvement and Maintenance Facilities 121,755 126,453 135,010 135,000 75,664 70,572 71,000 71,600 71,390 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Capital Improvement and Maintenance Roads 227,924 228,825 236,521 195,195 182,525 165,959 166,000 168,094 172,094 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Capital Improvement and Maintenance Trails 76,365 81,015 85,381 88,381 81,851 74,999 75,000 77,530 77,530 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Capital Improvement and Maintenance Deferred Maintenance 8,958 9,100 9,141 9,158 9,121 2,986 3,000 3,150 3,150 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Capital Improvement and Maintenance Legacy Roads & Trails 39,766 50,000 90,000 44,910 44,928 39,814 35,000 40,000 40,000 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Capital Improvement and Maintenance Road Maintenance & Decommis- sion 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Capital Improvement and Maintenance Land Between the Lakes NRA 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Land Acquisition, Special Acts & 

Exchanges 

Land Acquisition 41,827 49,775 63,522 32,934 52,521 49,762 43,525 47,500 63,435 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service Land Acquisition, Special Acts & 

Exchanges 

Land Acq., NF Special Acts 1,037 1,050 1,050 1,048 953 903 912 950 950 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service Land Acquisition, Special Acts & 

Exchanges 

Complete Land Exchanges 221 41 116 227 217 216 216 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service Other Appropriations Range Betterment Fund 2,556 2,581 2,590 2,552 3,257 2,338 3,000 2,320 2,320 

120 

FY 1990 to 2015 FS for Pivot—Cont. 

1/2 Approp. Agency Fund Program FY 1990 Enact. FY 1991 Enact. FY 1992 Enact. FY 1993 Enact. FY 1994 Enact. FY 1995 Enact. FY 1996 Enact. FY 1997 Enact. FY 1998 Enact. 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service Other Appropriations Gifts, Donations, and Bequests 3 1 8 5 18 4 87 55 92 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Other Appropriations Subsistence Management—Alaska 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Other Appropriations SE Alaska Economic Assistance 110,000 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Other Appropriations Early Winters Land Exchange 497 1 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Preparedness [a] 167,355 171,492 179,692 176,968 173,372 143,604 295,315 319,315 319,167 1 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Suppression [b] 378,812 118,035 [c] 110,589 185,411 378,222 225,628 190,170 510,701 265,392 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Hazardous Fuels 12,696 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Rehabilitation and Restoration 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Fire Research and Development 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Joint Fire Sciences Program 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management National Fire Plan—Forest Health 

Management—Federal Lands 

2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management NFP—Forest Health Management—Cooperative Lands 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management NFP—State Fire Assistance 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management NFP—Volunteer Fire Assistance 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Collaborative Forest Landscape 

Restoration Fund 

2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management NFP—Economic Action Programs 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Fire Facilities 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Land Between the Lakes NRA 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Fuels Management 8,837 8,407 7,719 12,195 16,406 1 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management FLAME Wildfire Suppression Reserve Fund 

Fire NPS 30,932 32,424 40,666 40,666 Non-Fire NPS 1,336,505 1,328,335 1,375,892 1,616,622 Total NPS 1,367,437 1,360,759 1,416,558 1,657,288 Fire BLM 126,000 135,513 144,890 151,503 Non-Fire BLM 874,000 678,020 689,012 699,930 Total BLM 1,000,000 

NPS Fire data 1995, 1996, 1997 are estimates from e-mail from Jeffrey Scott July 22, 2015. BLM Fire and Total data 1995 from e-mail from Randall Eardley July 21, 2015. NPS Total data 2007 to 2015 are from 10 year budget data posted on DOI public website. BLM Total data 2007 to 2015 are from 10 year budget data posted on DOI public website. NPS Fire data 1998 to 2015 from excel file received July 21, 2015 from Kimberly Salwasser. BLM and NPS Allocation Information. 1998–2015 YTD.xlsx. BLM Fire data 1998 to 2015 from excel file received July 21, 2015 from Kimberly Salwasser. BLM and NPS Allocation Information. 1998–2015 YTD.xlsx. Rows marked x in column A are data from Grant Beebe July 24 e-mail. He said they were a combination of appropriated and expended data. The other three rows compare the numbers with the other BLM numbers we have as described above. BLM Total data 1996 to 2006 are data from Grant Beebe July 24. [a]Was really called ‘‘Fire Presuppression.’’ [b]Was called ‘‘Fighting Forest Fires.’’ [c]Does not include: Transfer from Forest Service Fire Protection 7,000. 

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[Continued 1] 

1/2 Approp. Agency Fund Program FY 1999 Enact. FY 2000 Enact. FY 2001 Enact. FY 2002 Enact. FY 2003 Enact. FY 2004 Enact. FY 2005 Enact. FY 2006 Enact. FY 2007 Enact. 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service Other Appropriations Gifts, Donations, and Bequests 92 92 92 92 91 90 64 63 63 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Other Appropriations Subsistence Management—Alaska 3,000 5,488 5,488 5,506 5,467 5,879 4,975 5,009 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Other Appropriations SE Alaska Economic Assistance 22,000 4,989 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Other Appropriations Early Winters Land Exchange 1 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Preparedness 324,876 408,768 611,143 622,618 611,996 671,621 676,470 660,705 665,382 1 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Suppression 235,300 208,888 319,324 255,321 417,964 597,130 648,859 690,186 741,477 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Hazardous Fuels 205,158 209,010 226,626 233,479 262,539 280,119 301,258 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Rehabilitation and Restoration 141,687 3,668 7,078 6,914 12,819 6,189 6,189 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Fire Research and Development 15,965 22,265 21,288 22,025 21,719 22,789 22,789 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Joint Fire Sciences Program 8,000 7,948 7,901 7,889 7,882 7,882 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management National Fire Plan—Forest Health 

Management—Federal Lands 

11,974 6,982 6,910 14,815 14,792 14,779 14,779 

2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management NFP—Forest Health Management—Cooperative Lands 4,992 9,914 9,877 9,861 9,853 9,853 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management NFP—State Fire Assistance 50,383 50,383 46,252 51,063 40,179 45,816 46,221 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management NFP—Volunteer Fire Assistance 8,262 8,262 8,186 8,138 7,889 7,773 7,773 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Collaborative Forest Landscape 

Restoration Fund 

2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management NFP—Economic Action Programs 12,474 12,472 4,968 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Fire Facilities 10,376 1,838 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Land Between the Lakes NRA 300 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Fuels Management 1 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management FLAME Wildfire Suppression Reserve Fund 

Fire NPS 42,359 56,178 101,759 94,038 78,742 98,805 108,663 99,512 101,009 Non-Fire NPS 1,433,293 1,716,328 2,125,105 2,071,717 2,190,503 2,233,473 2,206,218 2,097,255 2,186,404 Total NPS 1,475,652 1,772,506 2,226,864 2,165,755 2,269,245 2,332,278 2,314,881 2,196,767 2,287,413 Fire BLM 151,907 271,777 459,315 363,865 352,096 371,795 386,730 455,241 449,408 Non-Fire BLM 737,345 776,868 856,783 880,797 918,623 945,201 944,323 956,083 556,879 Total BLM 1,006,287 

122 

FY 1990 to 2015 FS for Pivot—Cont. 

[Continued 2] 

1/2 Approp. Agency Fund Program FY 2008 Enact. FY 2009 Enact. FY 2010 Enact. FY 2011 Enact. FY 2012 Enact. w/ Recission FY 2013 Enact. FY 2014 Enact. FY 2015 Enact. FY 2016 Enact. 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service Other Appropriations Gifts, Donations, and Bequests 55 50 50 50 45 45 40 45 45 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Other Appropriations Subsistence Management—Alaska 4,974 5,000 2,582 2,577 2,573 2,438 2,500 2,500 2,500 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Other Appropriations SE Alaska Economic Assistance 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Other Appropriations Early Winters Land Exchange 1 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Preparedness 665,819 675,000 675,000 673,650 1,004,442 948,651 1,057,580 1,145,840 1,082,620 1 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Suppression 845,620 993,947 997,505 995,511 537,858 509,812 680,488 708,000 811,000 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Hazardous Fuels 310,086 328,086 350,285 339,604 317,076 301,056 306,500 361,749 375,000 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Rehabilitation and Restoration 10,828 11,500 11,600 11,477 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Fire Research and Development 23,519 23,917 23,917 23,869 21,699 20,603 19,795 19,795 19,795 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Joint Fire Sciences Program 7,875 8,000 8,000 7,984 7,250 6,884 6,914 6,914 6,914 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management National Fire Plan—Forest 

Health Management—Federal Lands 

14,030 17,252 20,752 20,710 15,958 15,151 

2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management NFP—Forest Health Management—Cooperative Lands 9,858 9,928 11,428 11,405 8,353 7,931 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management NFP—State Fire Assistance 47,967 55,000 71,250 64,870 55,475 52,672 78,000 78,000 78,000 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management NFP—Volunteer Fire Assistance 7,875 9,000 9,000 8,982 6,356 6,035 13,025 13,000 13,000 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Collaborative Forest Landscape 

Restoration Fund 

9,980 

2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management NFP—Economic Action Programs 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Fire Facilities 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Land Between the Lakes NRA 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Fuels Management 1 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management FLAME Wildfire Suppression Reserve Fund 413,000 290,418 315,381 298,967 315,000 303,060 823,000 

Fire NPS 94,799 103,006 93,615 119,606 70,181 92,111 120,902 86,878 Non-Fire NPS 2,356,710 2,422,599 2,655,715 2,491,536 2,493,939 2,300,013 2,455,977 2,527,911 Total NPS 2,451,509 2,525,605 2,749,330 2,611,142 2,564,120 2,392,124 2,576,879 2,614,789 Fire BLM 503,842 477,087 395,668 468,321 371,901 483,062 462,137 402,883 Non-Fire BLM 483,925 541,379 722,736 641,365 736,238 631,798 637,948 690,159 Total BLM 987,767 1,018,466 1,118,404 1,109,686 1,108,139 1,114,860 1,100,085 1,093,042 

123 

FY 1990 to 2015 FS Real FY 2015 Dollars 

[Note: Discretionary funding only] 

1/2 Approp. Agency Fund Program FY 2005 Enact. FY 2006 Enact. FY 2007 Enact. FY 2008 Enact. FY 2009 Enact. FY 2010 Enact. 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service Forest & Rangeland Research Forest & Rangeland Research 340,893 331,789 327,008 322,316 333,131 345,825 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Landscape Scale Restoration 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Forest Health Management— 

Federal Lands 

66,895 63,515 62,913 60,997 60,820 63,490 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Forest Health Management—Cooperative Lands 58,746 56,038 54,916 50,211 52,032 53,837 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Forest Health Management—Cooperative Lands Fire Mgt 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Forest Health Management— 

Emergency Pest Mgt 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Forest Management and Utilization 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry State Fire Assistance 40,604 39,301 38,351 36,755 39,340 43,389 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Volunteer Fire Assistance 7,298 7,063 6,893 6,658 6,744 7,759 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Fire Protection 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Forest Stewardship 39,864 40,793 48,904 33,291 30,348 32,552 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Forest Legacy Program 70,469 67,531 65,913 58,975 55,576 84,746 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Community Forest & Open Space 

Conservation 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Urban and Community Forestry 39,407 33,946 35,127 31,215 33,204 33,669 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Economic Action Programs 23,474 11,394 4,741 5,590 5,542 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Forest Resources Info & Analysis 6,115 5,481 5,349 5,091 5,620 5,581 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry International Forestry 7,906 8,227 8,028 8,323 9,554 10,882 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Emergency Pest Suppression 

Fund 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Forest Pest Management 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Stewardship Incentives Program 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Pacific Northwest Assistance 

Prog 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Special Projects 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System IRR 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Collaborative Forest Landscape 

Restoration 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Restoration Partnerships 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Land Management Planning, Assessment & Monitoring 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Land Management Planning 77,910 68,906 67,241 55,048 54,888 50,893 

124 

FY 1990 to 2015 FS Real FY 2015 Dollars 

[Continued] 

[Note: Discretionary funding only] 

1/2 Approp. Agency Fund Program FY 2011 Enact. FY 2012 Enact. w/ Recission FY 2013 Enact. FY 2014 Enact. FY 2015 Enact. FY 2016 Enact. 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service Forest & Rangeland Research Forest & Rangeland Research 332,973 314,107 293,156 302,132 301,581 291,000 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Landscape Scale Restoration 14,446 14,264 14,000 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Forest Health Management— 

Federal Lands 

61,610 50,445 47,080 60,799 60,033 58,922 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Forest Health Management—Cooperative Lands 53,014 42,546 38,648 47,109 41,445 40,678 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Forest Health Management—Cooperative Lands Fire Mgt 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Forest Health Management— 

Emergency Pest Mgt 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Forest Management and Utilization 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry State Fire Assistance 35,137 32,430 26,983 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Volunteer Fire Assistance 7,254 7,094 6,620 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Fire Protection 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Forest Stewardship 35,343 30,649 31,888 23,111 23,470 23,036 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Forest Legacy Program 57,437 56,698 52,916 52,589 53,999 62,347 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Community Forest & Open Space 

Conservation 

1,086 2,124 1,982 2,064 2,038 2,000 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Urban and Community Forestry 34,792 33,322 32,160 28,933 28,569 28,040 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Economic Action Programs 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Forest Resources Info & Analysis 5,458 5,230 4,881 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry International Forestry 10,307 8,496 7,930 8,255 8,151 8,000 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Emergency Pest Suppression 

Fund 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Forest Pest Management 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Stewardship Incentives Program 2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Pacific Northwest Assistance 

Prog 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service State and Private Forestry Special Projects 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System IRR 0 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Collaborative Forest Landscape 

Restoration 

16,256 42,479 39,686 41,274 40,754 40,000 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Restoration Partnerships 2,064 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Land Management Planning, Assessment & Monitoring 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Land Management Planning 48,901 42,479 38,971 38,957 38,466 36,998 

125 

FY 1990 to 2015 FS Real FY 2015 Dollars—Cont. 

[Note: Discretionary funding only] 

1/2 Approp. Agency Fund Program FY 2005 Enact. FY 2006 Enact. FY 2007 Enact. FY 2008 Enact. FY 2009 Enact. FY 2010 Enact. 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Inventory and Monitoring 206,351 199,087 194,276 187,780 188,360 188,980 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Recreation, Heritage & Wilderness 317,408 309,192 301,720 296,060 312,062 316,016 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Wildlife & Fisheries Habitat 

Mgmt 

166,200 157,386 153,583 149,234 156,669 158,513 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Wildlife Habitat Management 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Inland Fisheries Habitat Mgmt 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Anadromous Fisheries Hab 

Mgmt 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System TE&S Species Mgmg 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Grazing Management 59,245 57,139 55,758 54,293 56,200 56,210 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Forest Products 337,024 331,636 372,623 363,548 373,917 373,213 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Timber Sales Admin. and Mgmt. 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Vegetation & Watershed Mgmt 233,870 214,874 206,180 200,019 202,811 208,330 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Reforestation and Stand Improvement 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Minerals & Geology Management 68,759 100,553 98,123 94,852 96,068 96,694 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Landownership Management 113,632 108,639 106,013 102,919 104,868 105,967 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Real Estate Management 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Law Enforcement Operations 106,090 132,540 134,073 148,698 152,302 160,766 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Cooperative Law Enforcement 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Drug Enforcement 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Valles Caldera National Preserve 4,439 6,062 4,080 4,161 4,496 3,879 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Recreation Use 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Rangeland Management 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Forestland Management 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Soil, Water & Air Management 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Centennial of Service Challenge 12,163 5,297 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Infrastructure Management 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Maintenance of Facilities 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Forest Road Maintenance 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Forest Trail Maintenance 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Land Line Location 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Quincy Library Group Implementation 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Tongass NF Timber Pipeline 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System General Administration 

126 

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[Continued] 

[Note: Discretionary funding only] 

1/2 Approp. Agency Fund Program FY 2011 Enact. FY 2012 Enact. w/ Recission FY 2013 Enact. FY 2014 Enact. FY 2015 Enact. FY 2016 Enact. 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Inventory and Monitoring 181,581 172,021 157,813 155,830 153,866 147,998 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Recreation, Heritage & Wilderness 305,815 299,084 274,382 270,056 266,654 261,719 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Wildlife & Fisheries Habitat 

Mgmt 

152,306 148,955 137,108 144,941 143,114 140,466 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Wildlife Habitat Management 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Inland Fisheries Habitat Mgmt 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Anadromous Fisheries Hab 

Mgmt 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System TE&S Species Mgmg 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Grazing Management 54,010 58,882 54,019 57,119 56,400 56,856 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Forest Products 364,911 356,879 333,408 349,933 345,524 359,805 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Timber Sales Admin. and Mgmt. 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Vegetation & Watershed Mgmt 200,173 195,768 180,356 190,600 188,199 184,716 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Reforestation and Stand Improvement 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Minerals & Geology Management 90,737 88,739 81,410 78,857 77,864 76,423 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Landownership Management 99,646 91,199 83,665 80,206 79,196 77,730 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Real Estate Management 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Law Enforcement Operations 156,643 152,989 140,352 130,688 129,041 126,653 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Cooperative Law Enforcement 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Drug Enforcement 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Valles Caldera National Preserve 3,727 3,644 3,344 3,471 3,427 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Recreation Use 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Rangeland Management 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Forestland Management 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Soil, Water & Air Management 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Centennial of Service Challenge 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Infrastructure Management 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Maintenance of Facilities 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Forest Road Maintenance 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Forest Trail Maintenance 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Land Line Location 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Quincy Library Group Implementation 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Tongass NF Timber Pipeline 2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System General Administration 

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FY 1990 to 2015 FS Real FY 2015 Dollars—Cont. 

[Note: Discretionary funding only] 

1/2 Approp. Agency Fund Program FY 2005 Enact. FY 2006 Enact. FY 2007 Enact. FY 2008 Enact. FY 2009 Enact. FY 2010 Enact. 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Land Between the Lakes NRA 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Capital Improvement and Maintenance Facilities 245,162 147,785 151,724 137,251 142,133 149,641 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Capital Improvement and Maintenance Roads 279,237 263,662 260,916 256,932 257,199 262,153 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Capital Improvement and Maintenance Trails 93,377 88,655 85,529 86,084 91,061 94,634 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Capital Improvement and Maintenance Deferred Maintenance 17,057 15,224 10,609 10,098 10,228 10,132 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Capital Improvement and Maintenance Legacy Roads & Trails 44,827 56,200 99,753 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Capital Improvement and Maintenance Road Maintenance & Decommis- sion 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Capital Improvement and Maintenance Land Between the Lakes NRA 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Land Acquisition, Special Acts & 

Exchanges 

Land Acquisition 75,246 49,906 48,891 47,150 55,947 70,406 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service Land Acquisition, Special Acts & 

Exchanges 

Land Acq., NF Special Acts 1,300 1,258 1,228 1,169 1,180 1,164 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service Land Acquisition, Special Acts & 

Exchanges 

Complete Land Exchanges 285 276 4,288 249 46 129 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service Other Appropriations Range Betterment Fund 3,049 3,739 3,353 2,881 2,901 2,871 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Other Appropriations Gifts, Donations, and Bequests 79 75 73 62 56 55 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Other Appropriations Subsistence Management—Alaska 7,251 5,944 5,840 5,607 5,620 2,862 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Other Appropriations SE Alaska Economic Assistance 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Other Appropriations Early Winters Land Exchange 1 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Preparedness 834,360 789,363 775,738 750,557 758,700 748,151 1 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Suppression 800,305 824,584 864,454 953,241 1,117,196 1,105,607 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Hazardous Fuels 323,816 334,666 351,223 349,550 368,769 388,246 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Rehabilitation and Restoration 15,811 7,394 7,215 12,206 12,926 12,857 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Fire Research and Development 26,788 27,227 26,569 26,512 26,883 26,509 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Joint Fire Sciences Program 9,730 9,417 9,189 8,877 8,992 8,867 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management National Fire Plan—Forest 

Health Management—Federal Lands 

18,244 17,657 17,230 15,816 19,391 23,001 

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FY 1990 to 2015 FS Real FY 2015 Dollars—Cont. 

[Continued] 

[Note: Discretionary funding only] 

1/2 Approp. Agency Fund Program FY 2011 Enact. FY 2012 Enact. w/ Recission FY 2013 Enact. FY 2014 Enact. FY 2015 Enact. FY 2016 Enact. 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service National Forest System Land Between the Lakes NRA 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Capital Improvement and Maintenance Facilities 146,595 80,483 73,926 73,262 72,950 71,390 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Capital Improvement and Maintenance Roads 211,959 194,150 173,847 171,288 171,263 172,094 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Capital Improvement and Maintenance Trails 95,972 87,064 78,564 77,389 78,992 77,530 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Capital Improvement and Maintenance Deferred Maintenance 9,945 9,702 3,128 3,096 3,209 3,150 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Capital Improvement and Maintenance Legacy Roads & Trails 48,767 47,789 41,706 36,115 40,754 40,000 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Capital Improvement and Maintenance Road Maintenance & Decommis- sion 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Capital Improvement and Maintenance Land Between the Lakes NRA 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Land Acquisition, Special Acts & 

Exchanges 

Land Acquisition 35,763 55,866 52,127 44,912 48,396 63,435 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service Land Acquisition, Special Acts & 

Exchanges 

Land Acq., NF Special Acts 1,138 1,014 946 941 968 950 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service Land Acquisition, Special Acts & 

Exchanges 

Complete Land Exchanges 241 224 220 216 

2 Non-Fire Forest Service Other Appropriations Range Betterment Fund 2,771 3,464 2,449 3,096 2,364 2,320 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Other Appropriations Gifts, Donations, and Bequests 54 48 47 41 46 45 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Other Appropriations Subsistence Management—Alaska 2,798 2,737 2,554 2,580 2,547 2,500 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Other Appropriations SE Alaska Economic Assistance 2 Non-Fire Forest Service Other Appropriations Early Winters Land Exchange 1 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Preparedness 731,507 1,068,414 993,741 1,091,270 1,167,444 1,082,620 1 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Suppression 1,081,011 572,114 534,044 702,165 721,349 811,000 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Hazardous Fuels 368,771 337,270 315,365 316,264 368,570 375,000 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Rehabilitation and Restoration 12,463 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Fire Research and Development 25,919 23,081 21,582 20,426 20,168 19,795 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Joint Fire Sciences Program 8,670 7,712 7,211 7,134 7,044 6,914 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management National Fire Plan—Forest 

Health Management—Federal Lands 

22,489 16,974 15,871 

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FY 1990 to 2015 FS Real FY 2015 Dollars—Cont. 

[Note: Discretionary funding only] 

1/2 Approp. Agency Fund Program FY 2005 Enact. FY 2006 Enact. FY 2007 Enact. FY 2008 Enact. FY 2009 Enact. FY 2010 Enact. 

2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management NFP—Forest Health Management—Cooperative Lands 12,163 11,772 11,487 11,113 11,159 12,666 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management NFP—State Fire Assistance 49,557 54,738 53,887 54,072 61,820 78,972 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management NFP—Volunteer Fire Assistance 9,730 9,287 9,062 8,877 10,116 9,975 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Collaborative Forest Landscape 

Restoration Fund 

2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management NFP—Economic Action Programs 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Fire Facilities 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Land Between the Lakes NRA 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Fuels Management 1 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management FLAME Wildfire Suppression Reserve Fund 457,758 

Fire NPS 134,025 118,890 117,762 106,864 115,779 103,760 Non-Fire NPS 2,721,156 2,505,649 2,549,028 2,656,646 2,723,001 2,943,520 Total NPS 2,855,181 2,624,539 2,666,790 2,763,510 2,838,780 3,047,280 Fire BLM 476,994 543,889 523,944 567,966 536,246 438,547 Non-Fire BLM 1,164,731 1,142,259 649,240 545,514 608,510 801,060 Total BLM 1,173,184 1,113,479 1,144,756 1,239,608 

NPS Fire data 1995, 1996, 1997 are estimates from e-mail from Jeffrey Scott July 22, 2015. BLM Fire and Total data 1995 from e-mail from Randall Eardley July 21, 2015. NPS Total data 2007 to 2015 are from 10 year budget data posted on DOI public website. BLM Total data 2007 to 2015 are from 10 year budget data posted on DOI public website. NPS Fire data 1998 to 2015 from excel file received July 21, 2015 from Kimberly Salwasser. BLM and NPS Allocation Information. 1998–2015 YTD.xlsx. BLM Fire data 1998 to 2015 from excel file received July 21, 2015 from Kimberly Salwasser. BLM and NPS Allocation Information. 1998–2015 YTD.xlsx. Rows marked x in column A are data from Grant Beebe July 24 e-mail. He said they were a combination of appropriated and expended data. BLM Total data 1996 to 2006 I used data from Grant Beebe July 24. 

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FY 1990 to 2015 FS Real FY 2015 Dollars—Cont. 

[Continued] 

[Note: Discretionary funding only] 

1/2 Approp. Agency Fund Program FY 2011 Enact. FY 2012 Enact. w/ Recission FY 2013 Enact. FY 2014 Enact. FY 2015 Enact. FY 2016 Enact. 

2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management NFP—Forest Health Management—Cooperative Lands 12,385 8,885 8,308 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management NFP—State Fire Assistance 70,441 59,008 55,176 80,485 79,471 78,000 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management NFP—Volunteer Fire Assistance 9,753 6,761 6,322 13,440 13,245 13,000 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Collaborative Forest Landscape 

Restoration Fund 

10,837 

2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management NFP—Economic Action Programs 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Fire Facilities 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Land Between the Lakes NRA 2 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management Fuels Management 1 Fire Forest Service Wildland Fire Management FLAME Wildfire Suppression Reserve Fund 315,361 335,467 313,177 325,034 308,774 823,000 

Fire NPS 129,878 74,651 96,489 124,753 88,516 Non-Fire NPS 2,705,523 2,652,775 2,409,333 2,534,213 2,575,573 Total NPS 2,835,401 2,727,426 2,505,822 2,658,966 2,664,089 Fire BLM 508,543 395,587 506,022 476,859 410,479 Non-Fire BLM 696,449 783,128 661,828 658,270 703,171 Total BLM 1,204,992 1,178,715 1,167,850 1,135,129 1,113,650 

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Line Graph Master w FS BLM NPS 

Values 

Forest Service NPS BLM 

Fire Non-Fire Fire Non-Fire Fire Non-Fire 

1995 571,047 2,920,146 45,804 1,979,076 186,579 1,294,206 

1996 704,884 2,767,398 47,077 1,928,632 196,754 984,429 

1997 1,180,252 2,602,899 57,826 1,956,468 206,028 979,750 

1998 826,561 3,013,651 57,501 2,285,889 214,224 989,695 

1999 783,696 2,921,904 59,261 2,005,201 212,520 1,031,558 

2000 844,203 2,995,872 76,746 2,344,712 371,280 1,061,296 

2001 1,835,105 3,343,100 135,675 2,833,388 612,402 1,142,343 

2002 1,597,017 3,379,952 123,671 2,724,561 478,527 1,158,356 

2003 1,765,537 3,354,224 101,404 2,820,937 453,430 1,183,006 

2004 2,039,409 3,228,450 124,158 2,806,573 467,196 1,187,736 

2005 2,074,692 3,088,380 132,378 2,687,716 471,132 1,150,417 

2006 2,060,220 2,896,525 117,415 2,474,560 537,141 1,128,086 

2007 2,098,789 2,882,081 116,251 2,516,337 517,225 640,913 

2008 2,163,166 2,831,294 105,515 2,623,110 560,796 538,627 

2009 2,365,470 2,919,550 114,306 2,688,358 529,423 600,768 

2010 2,836,342 3,061,388 102,450 2,906,358 433,011 790,947 

2011 2,636,151 2,828,975 128,251 2,671,618 502,170 687,721 

2012 2,404,926 2,684,483 73,708 2,619,273 390,591 773,238 

2013 2,240,236 2,464,434 95,191 2,376,909 499,212 652,921 

2014 2,523,696 2,464,617 123,166 2,501,972 470,792 649,895 

2015 2,636,358 2,436,888 86,878 2,527,911 402,883 690,159 

Fire vs. Non-Fire 

Forest Service, National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management 

Enacted amounts in inflation adjusted 2015 dollars. Dollars in thousands. 


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NPS BLM 

Values 

BLM Forest Service NPS 

BLM Fire BLM non-fire BLM Total 

Fire Non-Fire Total Fire Non-Fire Fire Non-Fire Total 

1990 0 0 0 968,987 2,993,817 0 0 0 1991 0 0 0 499,875 3,385,734 0 0 0 1992 0 0 0 478,015 3,291,459 0 0 0 1993 0 0 0 581,187 3,079,202 0 0 0 1994 0 0 0 859,682 3,060,068 0 0 0 1995 186,579 1,294,206 1,480,785 571,047 2,920,146 45,804 102,275 148,078 187,131 1,068,423 1,255,554 1996 0 984,429 0 704,884 2,767,398 47,077 0 0 196,754 984,429 1,181,182 1997 0 979,750 0 1,180,252 2,602,899 57,826 0 0 206,028 979,750 1,185,778 1998 214,224 989,695 0 826,561 3,013,651 57,501 0 0 213,931 989,695 1,203,626 1999 212,520 1,031,558 0 783,696 2,921,904 59,261 0 0 241,640 1,031,558 1,273,197 2000 371,280 1,061,296 0 844,203 2,995,872 76,746 0 0 387,866 1,061,296 1,449,162 2001 612,402 1,142,343 0 1,835,105 3,343,100 135,675 0 0 684,493 1,142,343 1,826,836 2002 478,527 1,158,356 0 1,597,017 3,379,952 123,671 0 0 661,906 1,158,356 1,820,262 2003 453,430 1,183,006 0 1,765,537 3,354,224 101,404 0 0 552,192 1,183,006 1,735,198 2004 467,196 1,187,736 0 2,039,409 3,228,450 124,158 0 0 552,664 1,187,736 1,740,399 2005 471,132 1,150,417 0 2,074,692 3,088,380 132,378 0 0 554,242 1,150,417 1,704,660 2006 537,141 1,128,086 0 2,060,220 2,896,525 117,415 0 0 648,283 1,128,086 1,776,370 2007 517,225 640,913 1,158,138 2,098,789 2,882,081 116,251 2,553,795 2,670,046 660,298 1,123,168 1,783,466 2008 560,796 538,627 1,099,423 2,163,166 2,831,294 105,515 2,588,583 2,694,098 538,097 1,071,248 1,609,344 2009 529,423 600,768 1,130,192 2,365,470 2,919,550 114,306 2,721,652 2,835,958 442,766 1,109,859 1,552,625 2010 433,011 790,947 1,223,958 2,836,342 3,061,388 102,450 2,940,503 3,042,953 481,408 1,172,220 1,653,628 2011 502,170 687,721 1,189,891 2,636,151 2,828,975 128,251 2,703,786 2,832,037 477,324 1,165,978 1,643,303 2012 390,591 773,238 1,163,829 2,404,926 2,684,483 73,708 2,667,060 2,740,768 593,636 1,126,110 1,719,746 2013 499,212 652,921 1,152,133 2,240,236 2,464,434 95,191 3,045,530 3,140,721 515,337 1,040,273 1,555,610 2014 470,792 649,895 1,120,687 2,523,696 2,464,617 123,166 2,514,848 2,638,015 471,607 1,091,406 1,563,012 2015 402,883 690,159 1,093,042 2,636,358 2,436,888 86,878 2,557,721 2,644,599 465,555 1,083,793 1,549,348 

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Inflators/Deflators 

Year 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 

GDP Inflator [2009=1.00] 

0.6372 0.6630 0.6938 0.7172 0.7301 0.7512 0.7654 0.7818 0.7861 0.7944 0.8134 0.8334 0.8448 0.8632 

GDP Deflator [2015=1.00] 

* 0.5669 0.5899 0.6173 0.6381 0.6496 0.6683 0.6810 0.6956 0.6994 0.7068 0.7237 0.7415 0.7516 0.7680 

http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/budget/fy2015/assets/hist.pdf. Table 10.1. * Editor’s note: the formula to calculate the GDP Deflator: (ex. 1990 = 0.5899 ÷ 0.6630 × 0.6372). 

Inflators/Deflators 

[Continued] 

Year 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 

GDP Inflator [2009=1.00] 0.8838 0.9113 0.9408 0.9641 0.9971 1.0000 1.0141 1.0351 1.0567 1.0730 1.0893 1.1032 1.1240 GDP Deflator [2015=1.00] 0.7863 0.8108 0.8370 0.8577 0.8871 0.8897 0.9022 0.9209 0.9401 0.9546 0.9691 0.9815 1 

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Program Name [BLM/FS/NPS] 

Enacted amounts in inflation adjusted 2015 dollars. Dollars in thousands. 

[Forest Health Management—Federal Lands] 

Forest Health Management—Federal 

Lands 

National Fire Plan— 

Forest Health Management—Federal 

Lands 

Grand Total S&PF + 

NFP 

1995 40,125 0 40,125 

1996 36,537 0 36,537 

1997 47,159 0 47,159 

1998 52,363 0 52,363 

1999 52,218 0 52,218 

2000 55,059 0 55,059 

2001 55,054 15,965 71,019 

2002 56,950 9,182 66,132 

2003 64,451 8,899 73,349 

2004 67,641 18,616 86,258 

2005 66,073 18,020 84,093 

2006 62,727 17,438 80,165 

2007 62,106 17,009 79,115 

2008 60,227 15,616 75,842 

2009 60,046 19,145 79,190 

2010 62,688 22,711 85,399 

2011 60,838 22,207 83,045 

2012 49,808 16,760 66,568 

2013 46,447 15,658 62,104 

2014 60,025 0 60,025 

2015 58,922 0 58,922 

Editor’s note: this table is composed of three separate tables that included duplicative information. 


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Forest Health Management—Federal Lands 

Enacted amounts in inflation adjusted 2015 dollars. Dollars in thousands. 

[Forest Health Management vs. National Fire Plan] 

Enacted amounts in inflation adjusted 2015 dollars. Dollars in thousands. 


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Forest Health Mgmt—Fed Lands 

Total S&PF + NFP 

Enacted amounts in inflation adjusted 2015 dollars. Dollars in thousands. 

[Forest Health Management—Cooperative Lands] 

NFP—Forest 

Health Management—Cooperative Lands 

Forest Health 

Management— 

Cooperative 

Lands Fire Mgt 

Forest Health 

Management— 

Cooperative 

Lands 

Grand Total 

1995 0 20,270 11,558 31,828 

1996 0 24,684 11,334 36,018 

1997 0 25,597 21,329 46,926 

1998 0 28,474 39,544 68,017 

1999 0 0 24,063 24,063 

2000 0 0 29,743 29,743 

2001 0 0 30,014 30,014 

2002 6,565 0 32,878 39,443 

2003 12,767 0 39,711 52,478 

2004 12,411 0 56,221 68,633 

2005 12,013 0 58,024 70,037 

2006 11,626 0 55,342 66,968 

2007 11,340 0 54,212 65,552 

2008 10,972 0 49,577 60,549 

2009 11,017 0 51,370 62,387 

2010 12,507 0 53,157 65,664 

2011 12,229 0 52,350 64,579 

2012 8,773 0 42,009 50,782 

2013 8,196 0 38,127 46,324 

2014 0 0 46,510 46,510 

2015 0 0 45,655 45,655 


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Forest Health Management—Cooperative Lands 

Enacted amounts in inflation adjusted 2015 dollars. Dollars in thousands. 

[NPF Cooperative Lands vs. Cooperative Lands vs. Cooperative Lands Fire 

Mgt] 

Enacted amounts in inflation adjusted 2015 dollars. Dollars in thousands. 


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Forest Health Mgmt—Co-op Lands 

Total S&PF + NFP + Fire Mgmt 

Enacted amounts in inflation adjusted 2015 dollars. Dollars in thousands. 

[Forest Stewardship] 

Values Forest Stewardship 

1995 38,364 

1996 33,943 

1997 33,243 

1998 45,676 

1999 40,334 

2000 40,755 

2001 43,708 

2002 43,624 

2003 41,225 

2004 40,065 

2005 39,374 

2006 40,287 

2007 48,277 

2008 32,870 

2009 29,962 

2010 32,141 

2011 34,900 

2012 30,262 

2013 31,459 

2014 22,817 

2015 23,036 


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Forest Stewardship 

Enacted amounts in inflation adjusted 2015 dollars. Dollars in thousands. 

[Forest Legacy Program] 

Values Forest Legacy Program 

1996 4,356 

1997 2,844 

1998 5,656 

1999 9,810 

2000 40,892 

2001 79,822 

2002 85,483 

2003 88,060 

2004 80,591 

2005 69,603 

2006 66,693 

2007 65,067 

2008 58,231 

2009 54,869 

2010 83,676 

2011 56,717 

2012 55,982 

2013 52,204 

2014 51,919 

2015 53,000 


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Forest Legacy Program 

Enacted amounts in inflation adjusted 2015 dollars. Dollars in thousands. 

[Urban and Community Forestry] 

Values Urban and Community Forestry 

1995 41,921 

1996 36,957 

1997 36,267 

1998 57,873 

1999 42,726 

2000 42,208 

2001 47,521 

2002 47,344 

2003 46,360 

2004 43,810 

2005 38,923 

2006 33,525 

2007 34,677 

2008 30,821 

2009 32,782 

2010 33,244 

2011 34,356 

2012 32,901 

2013 31,727 

2014 28,565 

2015 28,040 


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Urban and Community Forestry 

Enacted amounts in inflation adjusted 2015 dollars. Dollars in thousands. 

[International Forestry] 

Values International Forestry 

2001 6,652 

2002 6,921 

2003 7,357 

2004 7,447 

2005 7,809 

2006 8,125 

2007 7,925 

2008 8,218 

2009 9,432 

2010 10,745 

2011 10,178 

2012 8,388 

2013 7,823 

2014 8,150 

2015 8,000 

International Forestry 

Enacted amounts in inflation adjusted 2015 dollars. Dollars in thousands. 


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[Forest & Rangeland Research] 

Values Forest & Rangeland Research Grand Total 

1995 286,545 286,545 

1996 258,229 258,229 

1997 255,649 255,649 

1998 265,542 265,542 

1999 276,227 276,227 

2000 297,396 297,396 

2001 307,339 307,339 

2002 317,344 317,344 

2003 322,014 322,014 

2004 334,741 334,741 

2005 336,704 336,704 

2006 327,672 327,672 

2007 322,814 322,814 

2008 318,247 318,247 

2009 328,893 328,893 

2010 341,459 341,459 

2011 328,800 328,800 

2012 310,140 310,140 

2013 289,210 289,210 

2014 298,289 298,289 

2015 296,000 296,000 

Forest & Rangeland Research 

Enacted amounts in inflation adjusted 2015 dollars. Dollars in thousands. 


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Forest & Rangeland Research plus Forest Resources Info & Analysis 

Enacted amounts in inflation adjusted 2015 dollars. Dollars in thousands. 

Values Vegetation & Watershed 

Mgmt Grand Total 

FY 1990 

FY 1991 

FY 1992 

FY 1993 

FY 1994 

FY 1995 

FY 1996 

FY 1997 

FY 1998 

FY 1999 

FY 2000 166,002 166,002 

FY 2001 181,634 181,634 

FY 2002 190,113 190,113 

FY 2003 189,703 189,703 

FY 2004 193,689 193,689 

FY 2005 189,614 189,614 

FY 2006 179,852 179,852 

FY 2007 176,849 176,849 

FY 2008 177,437 177,437 

FY 2009 180,437 180,437 

FY 2010 187,960 187,960 

FY 2011 184,341 184,341 

FT 2012 184,046 184,046 

FY 2013 172,173 172,173 

FY 2014 184,716 184,716 

FY 2015 184,716 184,716 

Vegetation & Watershed Mgmt 


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[Master Table] 

1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 

Anadromous Fisheries Hab Mgmt 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 34,721 0 0 Centennial of Service Challenge 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Fund 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Community Forest & Open Space Conservation 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Complete Land Exchanges 23 176 247 234 323 1,176 495 518 297 294 320 311 308 Cooperative Law Enforcement 19,348 14,339 13,437 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Deferred Maintenance 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 66,518 80,222 Drug Enforcement 0 11,731 11,346 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Early Winters Land Exchange 0 834 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Economic Action Programs 0 0 0 0 0 23,722 21,077 24,387 16,211 24,210 27,593 55,382 46,924 Emergency Pest Suppression Fund 0 0 0 22,763 18,667 21,346 24,190 0 0 0 0 0 0 Facilities 70,872 138,550 130,020 135,671 157,142 97,590 70,460 85,281 71,627 97,798 209,902 221,233 243,885 Fire Facilities 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13,646 Fire Protection 29,817 26,424 26,657 26,199 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Fire Research and Development 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 21,286 29,281 FLAME Wildfire Suppression Reserve Fund 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Forest & Rangeland Research 263,501 281,245 289,550 283,499 294,157 286,545 258,229 255,649 265,542 276,227 297,396 307,339 317,344 Forest Health Management—Cooperative Lands 0 0 0 0 167,013 11,558 11,334 21,329 39,544 24,063 29,743 30,014 32,878 Forest Health Management—Cooperative Lands Fire Mgt 0 0 0 0 0 20,270 24,684 25,597 28,474 0 0 0 0 Forest Health Management—Emergency Pest Mgt 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16,629 0 Forest Health Management—Federal Lands 0 0 0 0 0 40,125 36,537 47,159 52,363 52,218 55,059 55,054 56,950 Forest Legacy Program 0 0 0 0 0 0 4,356 2,844 5,656 9,810 40,892 79,822 85,483 Forest Management and Utilization 44,208 124,503 109,263 120,376 84,841 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Forest Pest Management 83,081 100,920 91,761 63,002 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Forest Products 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 324,988 340,364 350,270 Forest Resources Info & Analysis 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6,652 6,595 Forest Road Maintenance 168,278 153,189 137,776 127,538 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Forest Stewardship 0 0 0 0 0 38,364 33,943 33,243 45,676 40,334 40,755 43,708 43,624 Forest Trail Maintenance 42,703 47,361 49,003 48,615 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Forestland Management 0 0 0 0 383,212 351,204 349,054 358,005 388,254 399,000 0 0 0 Fuels Management 15,429 14,105 12,382 18,922 0 24,294 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 General Administration 475,156 490,478 487,296 474,696 454,261 439,766 382,868 368,790 370,307 357,119 0 0 0 Gifts, Donations, and Bequests 5 2 13 8 27 6 126 78 130 129 126 123 121 Grazing Management 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 44,851 45,041 45,733 Hazardous Fuels 0 0 0 0 19,342 0 0 0 0 0 0 273,536 274,874 Infrastructure Management 0 0 0 0 160,964 163,017 151,039 147,923 154,433 98,867 0 0 0 Inland Fisheries Habitat Mgmt 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 31,889 0 0 International Forestry 0 0 0 0 10,658 7,385 0 0 0 0 0 6,652 6,921 Inventory and Monitoring 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 129,990 112,920 188,970 232,085 227,932 IRR 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Joint Fire Sciences Program 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10,521 Land Acq, NF Special Acts 1,840 1,841 1,819 1,831 1,846 1,847 1,552 1,490 1,512 1,496 1,459 1,423 1,406 Land Acquisition 110,748 148,813 141,650 96,838 97,883 94,582 57,194 57,696 311,044 164,969 212,889 201,157 196,929 Land Between the Lakes NRA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9,378 0 0 Land Line Location 53,617 50,072 51,733 47,902 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Land Management Planning 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 51,150 55,961 68,534 104,176 92,529 

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2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 

Anadromous Fisheries Hab Mgmt 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Centennial of Service Challenge 0 0 12,013 5,232 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16,052 41,943 39,152 40,749 40,000 Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Fund 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10,701 0 0 0 0 Community Forest & Open Space Conservation 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1,072 2,097 1,955 2,037 2,000 Complete Land Exchanges 6,400 2,873 281 273 4,233 246 45 127 0 238 0 221 216 Cooperative Law Enforcement 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Deferred Maintenance 58,683 39,715 16,847 15,036 10,473 9,971 10,098 10,004 9,820 9,579 3,086 3,056 3,150 Drug Enforcement 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Early Winters Land Exchange 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Economic Action Programs 33,828 32,176 23,186 11,253 0 4,681 5,519 5,472 0 0 0 0 0 Emergency Pest Suppression Fund 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Facilities 260,538 269,371 242,149 145,952 149,778 135,518 140,325 147,752 144,757 79,467 72,931 72,330 71,600 Fire Facilities 2,367 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Fire Protection 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Fire Research and Development 27,415 27,677 26,459 26,889 26,228 26,178 26,541 26,174 25,594 22,789 21,292 20,166 19,795 FLAME Wildfire Suppression Reserve Fund 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 451,978 311,409 331,231 308,962 320,899 303,060 Forest & Rangeland Research 322,014 334,741 336,704 327,672 322,814 318,247 328,893 341,459 328,800 310,140 289,210 298,289 296,000 Forest Health Management—Cooperative Lands 39,711 56,221 58,024 55,342 54,212 49,577 51,370 53,157 52,350 42,009 38,127 46,510 45,655 Forest Health Management—Cooperative Lands Fire Mgt 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Forest Health Management—Emergency Pest Mgt 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Forest Health Management—Federal Lands 64,451 67,641 66,073 62,727 62,106 60,227 60,046 62,688 60,838 49,808 46,447 60,025 58,922 Forest Legacy Program 88,060 80,591 69,603 66,693 65,067 58,231 54,869 83,676 56,717 55,982 52,204 51,919 53,000 Forest Management and Utilization 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Forest Pest Management 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Forest Products 339,501 333,014 332,882 327,521 367,844 358,958 369,159 368,501 360,338 352,372 328,921 345,481 339,130 Forest Resources Info & Analysis 6,393 6,206 6,040 5,413 5,280 5,026 5,549 5,510 5,389 5,164 4,816 0 0 Forest Road Maintenance 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Forest Stewardship 41,225 40,065 39,374 40,287 48,277 32,870 29,962 32,141 34,900 30,262 31,459 22,817 23,036 Forest Trail Maintenance 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Forestland Management 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Fuels Management 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 General Administration 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Gifts, Donations, and Bequests 117 113 78 74 73 61 55 55 54 47 47 41 45 Grazing Management 52,264 57,677 58,517 56,430 55,043 53,607 55,485 55,500 53,333 58,138 53,292 56,393 55,356 Hazardous Fuels 291,850 293,389 319,837 330,514 346,719 345,138 364,077 383,344 364,150 333,011 311,121 312,240 361,749 Infrastructure Management 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Inland Fisheries Habitat Mgmt 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 International Forestry 7,357 7,447 7,809 8,125 7,925 8,218 9,432 10,745 10,178 8,388 7,823 8,150 8,000 Inventory and Monitoring 224,356 213,193 203,815 196,617 191,784 185,410 185,964 186,594 179,305 169,848 155,689 153,847 151,019 IRR 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Joint Fire Sciences Program 10,235 9,928 9,611 9,300 9,071 8,765 8,878 8,755 8,561 7,614 7,114 7,043 6,914 Land Acq, NF Special Acts 1,368 1,327 1,284 1,242 1,212 1,154 1,165 1,149 1,124 1,001 933 929 950 Land Acquisition 171,207 83,391 74,322 49,287 48,264 46,555 55,235 69,517 35,314 55,160 51,426 44,340 47,500 Land Between the Lakes NRA 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Land Line Location 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Land Management Planning 92,369 87,955 76,953 68,051 66,378 54,353 54,190 50,251 48,288 41,943 38,447 38,461 37,754 

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1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 

Land Management Planning, Assessment & Monitoring 0 0 0 0 225,240 221,721 188,877 184,980 0 0 0 0 0 Landownership Management 0 0 0 0 93,517 91,166 82,836 81,127 87,649 85,534 112,794 115,221 116,302 Landscape Scale Restoration 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Law Enforcement Operations 0 0 0 24,017 83,989 94,054 86,588 84,802 90,449 92,738 95,507 98,922 103,895 Legacy Roads & Trails 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Maintenance of Facilities 36,912 41,720 42,160 41,109 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Minerals & Geology Management 49,608 50,972 55,071 54,014 57,930 57,650 50,842 50,859 50,904 51,834 63,077 63,785 64,383 National Fire Plan—Forest Health Management—Federal Lands 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 15,965 9,182 NFP—Economic Action Programs 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 16,632 16,402 NFP—Forest Health Management—Cooperative Lands 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6,565 NFP—State Fire Assistance 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 67,175 66,260 NFP—Volunteer Fire Assistance 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 11,016 10,866 Pacific Northwest Assistance Prog 0 0 0 0 0 25,271 23,248 23,835 21,189 12,591 10,732 12,772 12,395 Preparedness 292,187 287,730 288,240 274,582 264,128 212,647 428,773 454,054 451,299 454,507 558,427 814,833 818,819 Quincy Library Group Implementation 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2,661 0 Range Betterment Fund 8,581 7,627 7,692 7,210 6,924 6,544 6,747 4,910 5,389 4,617 4,508 4,391 4,327 Rangeland Management 57,556 66,228 69,221 68,957 24,935 27,355 39,219 54,052 64,074 79,814 0 0 0 Real Estate Management 45,347 52,334 56,832 55,895 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Recreation Use 268,194 333,576 347,116 356,466 325,745 325,974 306,574 300,249 308,618 262,437 0 0 0 Recreation, Heritage & Wilderness 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 278,503 306,341 322,862 Reforestation and Stand Improvement 119,326 120,733 106,705 96,529 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Rehabilitation and Restoration 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 188,910 4,824 Restoration Partnerships 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Road Maintenance & Decommission 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 139,739 0 0 0 Roads 286,951 290,381 271,070 218,132 227,996 145,391 137,848 132,243 124,522 137,116 300,047 313,363 302,039 SE Alaska Economic Assistance 0 0 0 0 0 0 159,711 0 0 0 30,055 6,652 0 Soil, Water & Air Management 107,569 121,059 122,300 112,219 55,226 71,495 61,001 59,885 72,391 78,481 0 0 0 Special Projects 34,330 54,208 33,442 32,824 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 State Fire Assistance 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 30,093 32,690 33,259 33,286 Stewardship Incentives Program 0 0 0 0 0 27,073 6,534 6,399 22,963 0 0 0 3,945 Subsistence Management—Alaska 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4,197 0 7,317 7,217 Suppression 661,371 198,040 177,393 287,683 576,212 334,106 276,111 726,198 375,262 329,189 285,366 425,753 335,778 TE&S Species Mgmg 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 40,985 0 0 Timber Sales Admin. and Mgmt 439,613 441,486 423,067 339,850 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Tongass NF Timber Pipeline 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6,652 0 Trails 32,493 36,038 34,756 42,255 0 48,048 29,051 31,283 38,595 41,347 85,193 88,768 92,157 Urban and Community Forestry 0 0 0 0 0 41,921 36,957 36,267 57,873 42,726 42,208 47,521 47,344 Valles Caldera National Preserve 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1,317 3,682 Vegetation & Watershed Mgmt 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 226,779 242,171 250,022 Volunteer Fire Assistance0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2,798 4,426 6,652 6,645 6,448 Wildlife & Fisheries Habitat Mgmt 144,141 178,896 180,459 180,550 127,570 137,982 124,227 122,020 136,829 140,428 0 171,654 173,395 Wildlife Habitat Management 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 49,313 0 0 

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2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 

Land Management Planning, Assessment & Monitoring 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Landownership Management 119,007 115,041 112,236 107,291 104,654 101,619 103,534 104,629 98,398 90,047 82,539 79,186 77,730 Landscape Scale Restoration 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 14,262 14,000 Law Enforcement Operations 103,378 104,081 104,786 130,895 132,354 146,821 150,364 158,736 154,680 151,057 138,463 129,025 126,653 Legacy Roads & Trails 0 0 0 0 0 44,261 55,485 98,494 48,156 47,186 41,145 35,655 40,000 Maintenance of Facilities 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Minerals & Geology Management 67,343 67,101 67,914 99,305 96,865 93,654 94,846 95,474 89,600 87,619 80,314 77,854 76,423 National Fire Plan—Forest Health Management—Federal Lands 8,899 18,616 18,020 17,438 17,009 15,616 19,145 22,711 22,207 16,760 15,658 0 0 NFP—Economic Action Programs 6,398 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 NFP—Forest Health Management—Cooperative Lands 12,767 12,411 12,013 11,626 11,340 10,972 11,017 12,507 12,229 8,773 8,196 0 0 NFP—State Fire Assistance 59,563 64,166 48,948 54,058 53,196 53,389 61,034 77,974 69,559 58,263 54,433 79,461 78,000 NFP—Volunteer Fire Assistance 10,542 10,226 9,611 9,171 8,946 8,765 9,987 9,849 9,631 6,675 6,237 13,269 13,000 Pacific Northwest Assistance Prog 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Preparedness 788,130 843,956 824,107 779,569 765,790 741,083 749,048 738,706 722,340 1,054,921 980,367 1,077,386 1,145,840 Quincy Library Group Implementation 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Range Betterment Fund 4,353 2,646 3,012 3,693 3,310 2,845 2,864 2,834 2,736 3,421 2,416 3,056 2,320 Rangeland Management 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Real Estate Management 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Recreation Use 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Recreation, Heritage & Wilderness 325,224 320,495 313,507 305,356 297,850 292,323 308,092 312,026 301,982 295,307 270,689 266,620 261,719 Reforestation and Stand Improvement 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Rehabilitation and Restoration 9,115 8,688 15,617 7,302 7,123 12,052 12,762 12,695 12,307 0 0 0 0 Restoration Partnerships 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2,037 0 Road Maintenance & Decommission 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Roads 297,926 294,720 275,806 260,391 257,570 253,688 253,927 258,844 209,303 191,698 171,507 169,109 168,094 SE Alaska Economic Assistance 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Soil, Water & Air Management 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Special Projects 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 State Fire Assistance 58,577 41,950 40,105 38,813 37,859 36,291 38,840 42,842 34,697 32,020 26,620 0 0 Stewardship Incentives Program 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Subsistence Management—Alaska 7,091 6,870 7,162 5,870 5,765 5,536 5,549 2,826 2,763 2,702 2,520 2,547 2,500 Suppression 538,255 750,351 790,470 814,353 853,368 941,208 1,102,983 1,091,648 1,067,464 564,888 526,856 693,232 708,000 TE&S Species Mgmg 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Timber Sales Admin. and Mgmt 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Tongass NF Timber Pipeline 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Trails 89,149 93,890 92,230 87,555 84,432 84,997 89,902 93,439 94,769 85,964 77,506 76,405 77,530 Urban and Community Forestry 46,360 43,810 38,923 33,525 34,677 30,821 32,782 33,244 34,356 32,901 31,727 28,565 28,040 Valles Caldera National Preserve 4,031 3,911 4,384 5,987 4,028 4,108 4,439 3,830 3,680 3,598 3,299 3,427 3,364 Vegetation & Watershed Mgmt 244,300 243,389 230,996 212,208 203,536 197,494 200,231 205,699 197,665 193,295 177,929 188,175 184,716 Volunteer Fire Assistance0 6,329 7,208 6,976 6,804 6,574 6,658 7,661 7,163 7,004 6,531 0 0 Wildlife & Fisheries Habitat Mgmt 171,195 170,499 164,157 155,434 151,613 147,350 154,676 156,511 150,398 147,074 135,263 143,097 140,466 Wildlife Habitat Management 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 

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[ATTACHMENT 2] 

Project Search Constraints 

(This report contains the best available information at the time the data was published.) 

Project 

No. Project Name Lead Management Unit Overall NEPA Process Status 

Region: R1—Northern Region (1101) 

Decision Doc Type: DM 

NEPA Decision Signed Date Range: 10/01/2014 through 09/30/2015 

Project Simple Format 

Projects Found: 170 

46205 2014 Libby District Special Use Renewals Kootenai National Forest All Units 

(11011400) 

Completed 

47752 3 Rivers Communication Showdown Fiber Optic Belt Creek Ranger District (11011503) Completed 

46828 4th of July Park (Final Phase) SUP Red River Ranger District (11011705) Completed 

45594 Abayance Bay Marina and Campground Improvements Rexford Ranger District (11011401) Completed 

46105 Adams Creek AOP Culvert Salmon River Ranger District (11011701) Completed 

45381 Adamson Private Access Road Special Use Permit Sandpoint Ranger District (11010406) Completed 

45131 Alkire Culvert Replacement Lochsa/Powell Ranger District (11011755) Completed 

45780 Allotment 066 Replacement Range Water Developments Medora Ranger District (11011807) Completed 

47571 Allotment 271 Replacement Range Water Developments Medora Ranger District (11011807) Completed 

43998 Anna Creek Cabin Rental Project Hungry Horse Ranger District (11011006) Completed 

46477 Atkerson Private Road Special Use Permit Butte Ranger District (11010204) Completed 

32804 Authorization of Frontier Communication’s Existing 

Telephone and Fiber Optic Lines 

Priest Lake Ranger District (11010408) Completed 

46395 Avista Lakeview 343 Overhead to Underground 

Project 

Sandpoint Ranger District (11010406) Completed 

42910 Beartooth Recreational Trails Assoc. Winter Trail 

Grooming 

Beartooth Ranger District (11010802) Completed 

46661 Beartooth Recreational Trails Association 2015 Special Use Permit for Grooming West Fork Road 

#2071 

Beartooth Ranger District (11010802) Completed 

46008 Belle Fourche Pipeline Medora Ranger District (11011807) Completed 

45730 Big Creek Trail 44 Reroute St. Maries Ranger District (11010404) Completed 

46366 Big M Outfitter & Guide Special Use Permit Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest All 

Units (11010200) 

Completed 

44753 Big Mountain Communications Site Plan Amendment 

Project 

Tally Lake Ranger District (11011008) Completed 

46427 Big Mountain Summit Project Tally Lake Ranger District (11011008) Completed 

46368 Black Pine Ridge BLM Repeater Pintler Ranger District (11010208) Completed 

47414 Blacktail County Road 719 Repair Medora Ranger District (11011807) Completed 

45691 Blacktail Headwaters Project Butte Ranger District (11010204) Completed 

45857 Blacktail Wild Bill ORV Special Use Permit Proposal Swan Lake Ranger District (11011001) Completed 

44592 Bonner County Dock Permits Idaho Panhandle National Forest All 

Units (11010400) 

Completed 

46351 Bridger Pipeline Special-use Application Medora Ranger District (11011807) Completed 

46464 Britton Amateur Radio Repeater Jefferson Ranger District (11010207) Completed 

46761 Broschat Engineering Road Reclamation Medora Ranger District (11011807) Completed 

43970 Browns Canyon Allotment Water Improvements Dillon Ranger District (11010201) Completed 

46220 Butte Lookout Project Lolo National Forest All Units (11011600) Completed 

44428 Calvert Mine Exploration Project Wise River Ranger District (11010202) Completed 

46952 Camp Rotary Cabin Replacement Belt Creek Ranger District (11011503) Completed 

46312 Cataract Creek—Mountain Meadow Plan of Operations Madison Ranger District (11010206) Completed 

46182 Cedar Creek Road/Stream Interface Project Superior Ranger District (11011607) Completed 

47754 Charter Communication SUP Re-Issue Judith Ranger District (11011504) Completed 

45785 Clarke Mountain OHV Trail North Fork Ranger District (11011753) Completed 

44198 Clear Ridge Non-system Road Decommissioning 

Project 

Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest All 

Units (11011700) 

Completed 

46160 Cochran and Nolan Special Use Road Permits Belt Creek Ranger District (11011503) Completed 

39465 Crazy M Ranch Irrigation Ditch Musselshell Ranger District (11011506) Completed 

38222 Croff Reciprocal Access Exchange Lewis And Clark National Forest All Units 

(11011500) 

Completed 

44642 Dahlman Pipeline and Tank Project Townsend Ranger District (11011201) Completed 

45744 Dalrymple Access Helena National Forest All Units 

(11011200) 

Completed 

46089 Deception OHV Trail Relocation North Fork Ranger District (11011753) Completed 

41131 Deep Rock Ecosystem Maintenance Burning Superior Ranger District (11011607) Completed 

46928 Diorite Stock Tank Townsend Ranger District (11011201) Completed 

46479 Ditch Saddle Trail #4143 Maintenance and Construction Project Butte Ranger District (11010204) Completed 

45960 Down South Blowdown Salvage Three Rivers Ranger District (11011404) Completed 

46250 Dry Pole ATV Trail Construction Judith Ranger District (11011504) Completed 

44648 Dry Range Pipeline Extension Townsend Ranger District (11011201) Completed 

44425 Edwards Special Use Permit Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest All 

Units (11010200) 

Completed 

46164 Elk and Montgomery Site Reclamation 2015 Lewis And Clark National Forest All Units 

(11011500) 

Completed 

41604 Elkins Resort Permit Renewal Idaho Panhandle National Forest All 

Units (11010400) 

Completed 

46315 Eureka Fire Whitebark Pine Planting Project Madison Ranger District (11010206) Completed 

46183 Fat Bike Winter Trails Custer Gallatin National Forest All Units 

(11011100) 

Completed 

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Project Search Constraints—Continued 

(This report contains the best available information at the time the data was published.) 

Project 

No. Project Name Lead Management Unit Overall NEPA Process Status 

45732 Firecracker Annie Superior Ranger District (11011607) Completed 

45183 Fryxell Private Land Access SUP Request Plains/Thompson Falls Ranger District 

(11011605) 

Completed 

44417 Fun For a Day Idaho Panhandle National Forest All 

Units (11010400) 

Completed 

46783 Game Range Prescribed Burning Plains/Thompson Falls Ranger District 

(11011605) 

Completed 

46792 Goat Events Sandpoint Ranger District (11010406) Completed 

47083 Golden Anchor Bridge Replacement Helena Ranger District (11011202) Completed 

46827 Golden Jubilee Drilling Exploration Project Pintler Ranger District (11010208) Completed 

39408 Goldenwest Electric Lines Bell Lake Area Medora Ranger District (11011807) Completed 

47504 Granite Butte CDNST Trail Reroute Lincoln Ranger District (11011204) Completed 

45856 Grouse Creek Large Wood Replenishment Project Idaho Panhandle National Forest All 

Units (11010400) 

Completed 

45623 Hall Lake Trail and Trailhead Construction Project Swan Lake Ranger District (11011001) Completed 

45876 Harbor Marina Partners Road Relocation at Garfield 

Bay 

Sandpoint Ranger District (11010406) Completed 

44975 Hellgate Amateur Radio Club Special Use Permit Superior Ranger District (11011607) Completed 

44537 Hill Reservoir Dam Breeching Project Madison Ranger District (11010206) Completed 

44615 Hughes Creek Firewood Sale West Fork Ranger District (11010304) Completed 

45218 Idaho Department of Fish and Game Fish Creek 

Weir Special Use Permit Renewal 

Lochsa/Powell Ranger District (11011755) Completed 

46796 IDT Maintenance Site Additions SUP Lochsa/Powell Ranger District (11011755) Completed 

39275 Illi Allen Peak Access Kootenai National Forest All Units 

(11011400) 

Completed 

44593 Inland Empire Sled Dog Association Race Idaho Panhandle National Forest All 

Units (11010400) 

Completed 

45020 Jasper Mountain Priest Lake Ranger District (11010408) Completed 

46946 Jefferson Chamberlain Road Obliteration Belt Creek Ranger District (11011503) Completed 

47005 Jefferson Creek Unauthorized Trail Obliteration Belt Creek Ranger District (11011503) Completed 

46135 JM-(BAR)Outfitters 10 Year Special Use Permit for 

Outfitting & Guiding Re-issuance 

Missoula Ranger District (11011603) Completed 

39467 John Fletcher Suber Special Use Road Permit Judith Ranger District (11011504) Completed 

43523 Johnson-Slowey Aspen Enhancement Superior Ranger District (11011607) Completed 

46831 Lemhi Bar Waterline SUP Renewal Salmon River Ranger District (11011701) Completed 

45135 Little Boulder Post and Pole Palouse Ranger District (11010502) Completed 

45604 Little Eddy Plains/Thompson Falls Ranger District 

(11011605) 

Completed 

44534 Lower Branham Lake Dam Removal Madison Ranger District (11010206) Completed 

45743 Mac Pass Beacon Permit Re-issuance Helena National Forest All Units 

(11011200) 

Completed 

46314 Madison Ranger District Road Decommissioning as 

Identified in the Madison MVUM Decision 

Madison Ranger District (11010206) Completed 

46666 Main Boulder Station Volunteer Host Sites Custer Gallatin National Forest All Units 

(11011100) 

Completed 

45731 Marble Creek Trail 261 Reroute St. Maries Ranger District (11010404) Completed 

47305 Midstate Telephone Company Fiber Optic Lines Medora Ranger District (11011807) Completed 

47368 Mikes Creek Road Repair and County Easement 

Issuance 

Medora Ranger District (11011807) Completed 

38978 Miller Bingham Project White Sulphur Springs Ranger District 

(11011507) 

Completed 

45000 Missoula Electric Co-op Line Burial Project Swan Lake Ranger District (11011001) Completed 

42329 Monitor Project Idaho Panhandle National Forest All 

Units (11010400) 

Completed 

46986 Montgomery Lode AML Belt Creek Ranger District (11011503) Completed 

43610 Murfitt Radio Special Use Permit Reissuance Helena Ranger District (11011202) Completed 

46326 Mustang Fire Tree Planting West Fork Ranger District (11010304) Completed 

46204 Nez Daly Railroad Riparian Restoration Project Bitterroot National Forest All Units 

(11010300) 

Completed 

45119 NFS Road 100 Slides Lochsa/Powell Ranger District (11011755) Completed 

46554 North Zone Aquatic Organism Passage Improvement 

Project 

Bonners Ferry Ranger District (11010407) Completed 

43828 Northern Lights, Inc. Power Line Special Use Permit 

Reissuance 

Idaho Panhandle National Forest All 

Units (11010400) 

Completed 

47051 Northwest Energy Master Special Use Permit Helena National Forest All Units 

(11011200) 

Completed 

41681 Nut Pine Lode LLC Road Access Pintler Ranger District (11010208) Completed 

46159 October 14 SUP reissuance Lewis And Clark National Forest All Units 

(11011500) 

Completed 

47062 Olsen Livestock Area Special Use Permit Reauthorization Wisdom Ranger District (11010203) Completed 

47164 Oneok Gas Pipeline Reroute at Franks Creek Medora Ranger District (11011807) Completed 

42036 Orogrande 2013 Red River Ranger District (11011705) Completed 

45875 Outlet Bay Water Association Well/Road Addition 

and Permit Reissuance 

Priest Lake Ranger District (11010408) Completed 

44475 Palouse Divide Ski Trails Maintenance Palouse Ranger District (11010502) Completed 

45710 Permit Authorization for Niemier Water Diversion 

and Conveyance System 

Cabinet Ranger District (11011407) Completed 

24923 Permit Reissuance for 6 Pastures and 1 Fenceline— 

Castle, Crazy, and Big Snowies 

Musselshell Ranger District (11011506) Completed 

25423 Permit Reissuance for 8 pastures & new issues for 1 

pasture, Little Belt Mtns 

Musselshell Ranger District (11011506) Completed 

46929 Phoenix Project Ashland Ranger District (11011184) Completed 

45001 Piper 2 Pit Development Project Swan Lake Ranger District (11011001) Completed 

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Project 

No. Project Name Lead Management Unit Overall NEPA Process Status 

44608 Placid Lake Cost Share Supplement Lolo National Forest All Units (11011600) Completed 

46091 Pocket Gopher Baiting Palouse Ranger District (11011752) Completed 

38899 Power-line Access Road Project (formerly identified 

as the Pryor Mountain Access Road project) 

Beartooth Ranger District (11011182) Completed 

46793 Prater Mountain Endurance Equestrian Ride Priest Lake Ranger District (11010408) Completed 

46082 Pre-Commercial Thinning—2015 Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest All 

Units (11011700) 

Completed 

46193 Prescribed Burning in the Proposed Great Burn Wilderness and Clearwater Crossing Ninemile Ranger District (11011604) Completed 

46794 Priest Lake Multisports Priest Lake Ranger District (11010408) Completed 

44499 Priest Lake Translator District Backup Generator 

and Fuel Storage 

Priest Lake Ranger District (11010408) Completed 

39677 Prospecting Duke Fernan Ranger District (11010403) Completed 

45133 Race Creek Culverts Moose Creek Ranger District (11011706) Completed 

47941 Rambo Right-of-Way Clearing Kootenai National Forest All Units 

(11011400) 

Completed 

46011 Rebel Claims Exploration Project Pintler Ranger District (11010208) Completed 

42016 Relocation on Divide North Trail #16 West Fork Ranger District (11010304) Completed 

42011 Reroute on Hell’s Half Mountain Trail #8 West Fork Ranger District (11010304) Completed 

42019 Reroute on the Saint Joe Trail #392 West Fork Ranger District (11010304) Completed 

42013 Reroutes on Shoup-Elk City Trail #19 West Fork Ranger District 

(11010304)Completed 

43648 Road 108 Re-Alignment and Woody Debris Project 

(two stages) 

Lochsa/Powell Ranger District (11011755) Completed 

46720 Roadside Hazard Tree Removal #8 Dillon Ranger District (11010201) Completed 

47178 Roughrider Electric Installation of Electric Lines to 

two Williston Exploration Oil Wells 

Medora Ranger District (11011807) Completed 

46367 Royal Tine Outfitter & Guide Permit Renewal Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest All 

Units (11010200) 

Completed 

45145 Salmon River Rural Fire Department Permit Renewal Salmon River Ranger District (11011701) Completed 

43649 Sauerkraut Creek Restoration Lincoln Ranger District (11011204) Completed 

46766 Sheep Creek Culvert Replacement West Fork Ranger District (11010304) Completed 

46103 Sheep Creek Trail Reroute Red River Ranger District (11011705) Completed 

45508 Shields River Fish Barrier Yellowstone Ranger District (11011104) Completed 

47007 Showdown Communication Lease White Sulphur Springs Ranger District 

(11011507) 

Completed 

46664 Sioux Ranger District Outfitter/Guide Permit Renewals Custer Gallatin National Forest All Units 

(11011100) 

Completed 

46316 Smith Lake Fish Screen Project Madison Ranger District (11010206) Completed 

43642 Snowbowl Zipline Project Missoula Ranger District (11011603) Completed 

44702 St. Joe Outfitter and Guide Permit Renewals Avery Ranger District (11010402) Completed 

43651 Stonewall Creek Restoration Lincoln Ranger District (11011204) Completed 

44550 Stony Creek Diversion Reconstruction and Fish 

Screen Project 

Pintler Ranger District (11010208) Completed 

43747 Telecommunications Cable Projects Grand River Ranger District (11011806) Completed 

46229 Tenmile and Priest Pass Restoration Project Helena National Forest All Units 

(11011200) 

Completed 

47627 Theodore Roosevelt Medora Foundation Reissuance of 

Existing Master Private Road Special Use Permit 

Medora Ranger District (11011807) Completed 

47528 Thompson Falls Water Line Replacement Plains/Thompson Falls Ranger District 

(11011605) 

Completed 

44974 Trawick Amateur Radio Repeater Special Use Permit Plains/Thompson Falls Ranger District 

(11011605) 

Completed 

46336 TSI 2015 St. Maries Ranger District (11010404) Completed 

46916 Upper Landers Trail Restoration Lincoln Ranger District (11011204) Completed 

45684 Upper Missouri G&T Cooperative Access Road Medora Ranger District (11011807) Completed 

44146 Upper Wilson Creek Stream Restoration and Water 

Developement 

Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest All 

Units (11010200) 

Completed 

45380 US Border Patrol Communication Facility Additions Bonners Ferry Ranger District (11010407) Completed 

44488 Van Houten Lake Fish Barrier Project Wisdom Ranger District (11010203) Completed 

44324 Vigilante Electric Cooperative Special Use Permit Helena Ranger District (11011202) Completed 

46930 Warm Springs Ponderosa Pine Planting Helena Ranger District (11011202) Completed 

43113 West Fork Corral Creek Meadow Restoration Palouse Ranger District (11011752) Completed 

46052 Westslope Cutthroat Trout Barrier Blasting Projects 

(Beaver and Tepee Creeks) 

Hebgen Lake Ranger District (11011107) Completed 

47755 White Sulphur Springs City Water Access SUP District (11011507) White Sulphur Springs Ranger Completed 

44770 Wild and Scenic River Outfitter and Guide Permit 

Reissuance 

Hungry Horse Ranger District (11011006) Completed 

46051 Wildhorse Creek Westslope Cutthroat Trout Barrier 

Blasting Projects 

Bozeman Ranger District (11011106) Completed 

47748 Wilkinson-McKee Special Use Roads Musselshell Ranger District (11011506) Completed 

46488 Wisdom and Wise River Communication Sites Project Wise River Ranger District 

(11010202)Completed 

45990 Yaak Highside Blowdown Salvage Three Rivers Ranger District (11011404) Completed 

45992 Yaak River Campground Blowdown Salvage Three Rivers Ranger District (11011404) Completed 

46931 York Gulch Tiddy Property Restoration Project Helena National Forest All Units 

(11011200) 

Completed 

45185 Young Creek Non-Cost Share Road Project Plains/Thompson Falls Ranger District 

(11011605) 

Completed 

46206 Young Pipe Creek access Kootenai National Forest All Units 

(11011400) 

Completed 

45233 Yurt Ski Outfitter and Guide Permit Re-issue Seeley Lake Ranger District (11011606) Completed 

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Project 

No. Project Name Lead Management Unit Overall NEPA Process Status 

Region: R2—Rocky Mountain Region (1102) 

Decision Doc Type: DM 

NEPA Decision Signed Date Range: 10/01/2014 through 09/30/2015 

Project Simple Format 

Projects Found: 222 

46033 ‘‘10 Year Outfitter Guide permit re-issuance J.C. Trujillo’’ Yampa Ranger District (11020601) Completed 

45552 2 Bars 7 Ranch Special Use Authorization Canyon Lakes Ranger District (11021005) Completed 

46838 2015 Bicycle Tours of Colorado White River National Forest All Units 

(11021500) 

Completed 

46927 2015 Outfitter and Guide Special Use Permit Renewal Mystic Ranger District (11020306) Completed 

46853 2015 Xcel Vegetation Mgmt—Line Clearing Leadville Ranger District (11021201) Completed 

45279 Access to the Tailor Lode East Zone/Dillon Ranger District 

(11021510) 

Completed 

46263 Amazonite Plan of Operations Pike and San Isabel National Forests and 

Cimarron and Comanche National 

Grasslands All Units (11021200) 

Completed 

45722 Arkansas River Placer Property Permit/Easement Leadville Ranger District (11021201) Completed 

45885 Ballard Petroleum Road Use Permit for NFSR910C Douglas and Thunder Basin Ranger District (11020609) Completed 

44812 Barr Water Development SUP Reissuance Gunnison Ranger District (11020407) Completed 

43680 Bates Creek Aspen Restoration Project Douglas and Thunder Basin Ranger District (11020609) Completed 

45362 Beacon Landing Marina Sale Sulphur Ranger District (11021008) Completed 

41956 Berenergy Corp. Road Reconstruction Douglas and Thunder Basin Ranger District (11020609) Completed 

47157 Black Thunder Mine SUP Consolidation (DGL401) 

and Acreage Adjustment 

Douglas and Thunder Basin Ranger District (11020609) Completed 

43626 Blanco Ranger District Outfitter/Guide Permit 

Reissuances 

West Zone/Blanco Ranger District 

(11021502) 

Completed 

45349 Blue Creek Bighorn Sheep Habitat Improvement 

Project 

Clear Creek Ranger District (11021007) Completed 

46852 Bonsai Tree Collection Douglas and Thunder Basin Ranger District (11020609) Completed 

46168 Boy Scouts of America Recreation Event—5 Year Grand Mesa Uncompahgre and Gunnison 

National Forest All Units (11020400) 

Completed 

46519 Calamity Basin Pine restoration and mastication Grand Valley Ranger District (11020402) Completed 

46875 Cannon USA, Inc. Fall color photography Outfitter & 

Guide Permit Issuance 

Grand Valley Ranger District (11020402) Completed 

44454 Cayton Ranger Station Outhouse Repalcement White River National Forest All Units 

(11021500) 

Completed 

45303 CBMR Mountain Bike Trail Additions Gunnison Ranger District (11020407) Completed 

45348 CDOT Avalanche Mitigation System, 7 Sisters Avalanche Paths Special Use Permit Clear Creek Ranger District (11021007) Completed 

45660 Cedar Mountain Cell Tower Co-Location Wapiti Ranger District (11021404) Completed 

46584 Centennial Trail Reroute Northern Hills Ranger District (11020308) Completed 

44434 Charger Resources, LLC—Special Use Permit. Douglas and Thunder Basin Ranger District (11020609) Completed 

31098 Cheley Camps Special Use Authorization Canyon Lakes Ranger District (11021005) Completed 

45558 Cherokee Park Ranch Special Use Authorization Canyon Lakes Ranger District (11021005) Completed 

45841 CIM99 Linn Operating Inc. (3.14 mile saltwater pipeline) R2—Rocky Mt. Region All Units 

(11020000) 

In Progress 

42898 Clover Mist Hazardous Fuel Reduction and Planting 

Project 

Clarks Fork Ranger District (11021401) Completed 

45199 Colorado Interstate Gas Co.—CIM58 Amend#2 R2—Rocky Mt. Region All Units 

(11020000) 

Completed 

45201 Colorado Interstate Gas Co—CIM58 Amend#3 R2—Rocky Mt. Region All Units 

(11020000) 

Completed 

44873 Colorado Outward Bound School Special Use Permit 

Reissuance 

White River National Forest All Units 

(11021500) 

Completed 

45398 Colorado State University (COM 100) Comanche Ranger District (11021206) Completed 

47736 COM 111—Colorado Partners in Amphibians & Reptile Conservation SUP Comanche Ranger District (11021206) Completed 

45557 Comanche Wilderness Outfitters Special Use Authorization Canyon Lakes Ranger District (11021005) Completed 

46364 Coon Creek and Upper East Fork Encampment River 

Weir Removal 

Brush Creek/Hayden Ranger District 

(11020602) 

Completed 

44814 Cranor, Hillerton Ranch, Special Use Permit 

Reissuance 

Gunnison Ranger District (11020407) Completed 

44277 Creekside Resort Permit Issuance Wapiti Ranger District (11021404) Completed 

47530 Crystal River Broadband LLC—Town of Marble Fiber 

optics Line 

West Zone/Sopris Ranger District 

(11021503) 

Completed 

45762 Custer County and South Dakota State DOT Hazard 

Tree Removal Project 

Black Hills National Forest All Units 

(11020300) 

Completed 

46757 Dayton Gulch Outfitters Special Use Permit Proposal Tongue Ranger District (11020206) Completed 

46922 Designated Dispersed Camping and Parking South Platte Ranger District (11021211) Completed 

46152 Devon Energy Sor Kraken 3D Seismic Survey Douglas and Thunder Basin Ranger District (11020609) Completed 

45657 Dickey Ranch Water Improvements Shoshone National Forest All Units 

(11021400) 

Completed 

46988 Dodd—Private Road Easement White River National Forest All Units 

(11021500) 

Completed 

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Project 

No. Project Name Lead Management Unit Overall NEPA Process Status 

46544 Downy Gentian Pine Encroachment—North Mystic Ranger District (11020306) Completed 

46545 Downy Gentian Pine Encroachment—South Mystic Ranger District (11020306) Completed 

47374 DP204 Crude Oil Pipeline Project Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests 

All Units (11021000) 

Completed 

44921 Dunton FLPMA Private Road Permit Pikes Peak Ranger District (11021209) Completed 

45737 Dyers Creek Integrated Vegetation Project Divide Ranger District (11020904) Completed 

41503 Eagle Lake Camp Communication Restoration 

Project 

Pikes Peak Ranger District (11021209) Completed 

45564 Eagle-Holy Cross transitional priority special use reclassification White River National Forest All Units 

(11021500) 

Completed 

44721 EagleGarfield AML Safety Closures White River National Forest All Units 

(11021500) 

Completed 

39311 Echo-Beaver Fuels Treatment Project South Park Ranger District (11021210) Completed 

46642 Estes Valley Land Trust access request Boulder Ranger District (11021001) Completed 

45070 Finley Ditches #1 & #4 Special Use Permit West Zone/Sopris Ranger District 

(11021503) 

Completed 

46585 Flat Top Mountain Riparian Restoration—Gunnison 

Sage-Grouse Habitat Improvement 

Gunnison Ranger District (11020407) Completed 

46523 Forest Health—Boggy Draw Pre-commercial 

Thinning Project 

Mancos/Dolores Ranger District 

(11021305) 

Completed 

44108 Forest Health—Laughlin Jackson project Pagosa Ranger District (11021306) Completed 

44793 Forest Health—Vallecito Reforestation Columbine Ranger District (11021308) Completed 

48289 Forest Road Permit—Yellow Brick Road Access To 

Friday Lode Claim (MS 17668) 

East Zone/Dillon Ranger District 

(11021510) 

Completed 

44305 Friends University FLPMA Private Road Permit Pikes Peak Ranger District (11021209) Completed 

46973 Fuels—634I Fuels Reduction Project Pagosa Ranger District (11021306) Completed 

46972 Fuels—Dunagan Canyon and Brockover Mesa Fuels 

Reduction Project 

Pagosa Ranger District (11021306) Completed 

44848 Funks Floodwater Ditch Gunnison Ranger District (11020407) Completed 

47054 Gold Creek Allotment NEPA Sufficiency Review and 

Finding 

Gunnison Ranger District (11020407) Completed 

45767 Gold Rush Gravel Grinder Amendment Northern Hills Ranger District (11020308) Completed 

45373 Grand Adventures Permit Reissuance Sulphur Ranger District (11021008) Completed 

41650 Grand County Sheriff’s Department Communications 

Equipment 

Sulphur Ranger District (11021008) Completed 

45385 Grand Lake Winter Trail System—Grooming; Outfitter/Guide and Snowmobile Testing Uses Sulphur Ranger District (11021008) Completed 

46882 Grand Mesa Adventures, INC., Summer Outfitter 

Guide Permit Issuance 

Grand Valley Ranger District (11020402) Completed 

46879 Grand Mesa Bowmen—Recreation Event Permit 

Reissuance 

Grand Valley Ranger District (11020402) Completed 

46859 Grand Mesa Resort Project Grand Valley Ranger District (11020402) Completed 

47183 Granite Creek/Route No. 301116 Stream Crossing Removal Bighorn National Forest All Units 

(11020200) 

Completed 

45822 Gray Head Communications Site Permit Reissuance Grand Mesa Uncompahgre and Gunnison 

National Forest All Units (11020400) 

Completed 

45709 Green Mountain Repeater Site South Platte Ranger District (11021211) Completed 

10666 Harris Park Land Exchange Douglas and Thunder Basin Ranger District (11020609) Completed 

47426 Heede Pasture Water Improvement Project White River National Forest All Units 

(11021500) 

Completed 

47159 Hiland Crude Road Use Permit NFSR 1501 Douglas and Thunder Basin Ranger District (11020609) Completed 

45664 Hillside of Telluride HOA Permit Renewal Grand Mesa Uncompahgre and Gunnison 

National Forest All Units (11020400) 

Completed 

46620 Holy Cross Energy—Ski Sunlight—New Underground Powerline West Zone/Sopris Ranger District 

(11021503) 

Completed 

45702 Holy Cross Energy King Cabin—Obermeyer— 

Powerline Authorization Amendment to Master 

Permit ASP55 

West Zone/Sopris Ranger District 

(11021503) 

Completed 

45898 Holy Cross Energy renewal of expired permit 

powerline in Castle Creek. 

West Zone/Sopris Ranger District 

(11021503) 

Completed 

47082 Hoot Owl Camp Building Replacement White River National Forest All Units 

(11021500) 

Completed 

47218 Hot Springs Trail Reconstruction Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest All 

Units (11020600) 

Completed 

45285 HPBE MVUM Changes Black Mountain Road and 

Other Minor Changes 

Hahns Peak/Bears Ears Ranger District 

(11020603) 

Completed 

42977 Hy Brook Thinning Project Pikes Peak Ranger District (11021209) Completed 

46586 Implementation of the 2010 Gunnison Basin Federal 

Lands Travel Management Plan on the Gunnison 

RD 

Gunnison Ranger District (11020407) Completed 

45671 Independence Pass Winter Gate Project West Zone/Sopris Ranger District 

(11021503) 

Completed 

47651 Installation of propane tank adjacent to Broome Hut Sulphur Ranger District (11021008) Completed 

45017 IREA Buffalo Creek to Foxton Road Powerline Rebuild South Platte Ranger District (11021211) Completed 

45676 IREA Cheesman Reservoir to Lost Valley Ranch 

Powerline Rebuild 

South Platte Ranger District (11021211) Completed 

37410 IREA Powerline Permit Renewal Pikes Peak Ranger District (11021209) Completed 

44269 IREA West Creek to Trout Creek Ranch 7.2 kV 

Powerline Rebuild 

Pikes Peak Ranger District (11021209) Completed 

46898 Issuance of 10 Year Priority Recreation Special Use 

Permits on Sulphur Ranger District 

Sulphur Ranger District (11021008) Completed 

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Project 

No. Project Name Lead Management Unit Overall NEPA Process Status 

46483 Johnson County Search and Rescue Special Use Permit for communications equipment at Hunter Mesa Bighorn National Forest All Units 

(11020200) 

Completed 

42776 Kelly Land Exchange Nebraska National Forest All Units 

(11020700) 

Completed 

42919 Kenosha Pass Communication Site Lease South Platte Ranger District (11021211) Completed 

46123 Keystone Stables 10 Year Permit Reissuance East Zone/Dillon Ranger District 

(11021510) 

Completed 

44787 Krauss Spring Development Reissue Yampa Ranger District (11020601) Completed 

40875 Laramie Precommercial Thinning Analysis 2013 Laramie Ranger District (11020605) Completed 

45556 Laramie River Guest Ranch Special Use Authorization Canyon Lakes Ranger District (11021005) Completed 

46334 Larson Outfitter/Guide Permit Northern Hills Ranger District (11020308) Completed 

47377 Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Groundwater Research Special Use Permit Gunnison Ranger District (11020407) Completed 

45080 Lincoln Mountain Easement Access HOA Clear Creek Ranger District (11021007) Completed 

45405 Little Spearfish Trail Crossing Installation Northern Hills Ranger District (11020308) Completed 

46582 Little Spearfish Trail Reroute Northern Hills Ranger District (11020308) Completed 

46861 Litzel Ranch LLC Stock Water Pipeline Special Use 

Permit Modification 

Fall River Ranger District (11020705) Completed 

47595 Long Draw Changed Condition Analysis Gunnison Ranger District (11020407) Completed 

46200 Lovell Gulch Trailhead Relocation Project Pikes Peak Ranger District (11021209) Completed 

46264 Macanite Plan of Operations Pike and San Isabel National Forests and 

Cimarron and Comanche National 

Grasslands All Units (11021200) 

Completed 

44604 Manhattan Project Canyon Lakes Ranger District (11021005) Completed 

45792 Matterhorn and Trout Lake Nordic Parking Projects Norwood Ranger District (11020405) Completed 

46935 Matterhorn and Trout Lake Nordic Ski Trail Proposal Norwood Ranger District (11020405) Completed 

46810 Mayo Snowmobile Parking Special Use Permit Norwood Ranger District (11020405) Completed 

45211 Merit Energy—Electrical Cable replacement SERU 

9–6 & SERU 9–2 

R2—Rocky Mt. Region All Units 

(11020000) 

Completed 

43912 Mesa Point Fuels Reduction Grand Valley Ranger District (11020402) Completed 

13526 Mika Ag FLPMA Private Road Special Use Permit Grand Valley Ranger District (11020402) Completed 

38658 Moore Forest Road Authorization Canyon Lakes Ranger District (11021005) Completed 

45277 Mountain Bike Trail at Copper Mountain East Zone/Dillon Ranger District 

(11021510) 

Completed 

45367 Mtn. Parks Elec., Inc. Replace Granby Dam 

Powerline & Provide Service to Hydroelectric Facility 

Sulphur Ranger District (11021008) Completed 

44813 Murdie Homeowners Association Spring Development 

and Waterline 

Gunnison Ranger District (11020407) Completed 

43540 MWPR Ranger District outfitter and guide permit 

issuances, modifications, and re-issuance. 

Medicine Wheel Ranger District 

(11020203) 

Completed 

46616 National Forest System Road 909 Special Use Permit Douglas and Thunder Basin Ranger District (11020609) Completed 

41760 National Outdoor Leadership Sschool (NOLS) Permit 

Reissuance EA 

Washakie Ranger District (11021403) Completed 

34879 Naturita Fuels Management Project Norwood Ranger District (11020405) Completed 

46873 North American Trail Ride Conference (NATRC)— 

Recreation Event Permit Reissuance 

Grand Valley Ranger District (11020402) Completed 

47141 North Bill Disposal Powerline Douglas and Thunder Basin Ranger District (11020609) Completed 

45554 Northern Colorado Rocketry Special Use Authorization Pawnee Ranger District (11021006) Completed 

45419 NRCS SNOTEL Sites Permit Renewal Shoshone National Forest All Units 

(11021400) 

Completed 

44076 NWCC—Sheridan College Outfitter Guide Permit 

Proposal 

Tongue Ranger District (11020206) Completed 

46485 Paradise Ranch Company Special Use Permit 

Reissuance 

Bighorn National Forest All Units 

(11020200) 

Completed 

44844 Partch Water Development Special Use Permit 

Reissuance 

Gunnison Ranger District (11020407) Completed 

25720 Pikes Peak RD 10 Year Priority Outfitter & Guide 

Permits 

Pikes Peak Ranger District (11021209) Completed 

46343 Piney Race Start Building, Ski Cooper Leadville Ranger District (11021201) Completed 

43212 Pole Hill Re-route on Long Canyon Trail #621 Grand Valley Ranger District (11020402) Completed 

43621 Poughkeepsie inactive mine safety closure project. Ouray Ranger District (11020406) Completed 

44647 Powder River Ranger District Outfitter and Guide 

Permit Conversion to 10 Year Term 

Powder River Ranger District (11020201) Completed 

46765 Quail Habitat Improvement 2015 R2—Rocky Mt. Region All Units 

(11020000) 

Completed 

46265 Quist Mining Plan of Operations Pike and San Isabel National Forests and 

Cimarron and Comanche National 

Grasslands All Units (11021200) 

Completed 

38640 Qwest (CenturyLink) Communication Site Lease Clear Creek Ranger District (11021007) Completed 

45365 Rampart Reservoir Mastication Project Pikes Peak Ranger District (11021209) Completed 

45278 Range—East Creek Corral Columbine Ranger District (11021308) Completed 

46749 Range—Hershey On-Off Permit Pagosa Ranger District (11021306) Completed 

46750 Range—Schutz On-Off Permit Pagosa Ranger District (11021306) Completed 

46013 Recreation—2015 Outfitter and Guide Permit 

Reissuance on Pagosa District (Fish Creek Outfitters) 

Pagosa Ranger District (11021306) Completed 

46812 Recreation—2015 Outfitter Guide Permit Reissuance 

on Pagosa Disrict (3rd Generation Outfitters) 

Pagosa Ranger District (11021306) Completed 

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Project 

No. Project Name Lead Management Unit Overall NEPA Process Status 

47644 Recreation—2015 Outfitter Guide Permit Reissuance 

on Pagosa District (Bugle ’em Up Outfitting) 

Pagosa Ranger District (11021306) Completed 

46815 Recreation—2015 Outfitter Guide Permit Reissuance 

on Pagosa District (Highlands Unlimited) 

Pagosa Ranger District (11021306) Completed 

45458 Recreation—Logchutes Loops Trail Columbine Ranger District (11021308) Completed 

45103 Recreation—Outfitter Guide Permit Reissuance 

(guided snowmobile tours) 

Pagosa Ranger District (11021306) Completed 

46791 Recreation—Outfitter Guide Permit Reissuance (Wilderness Adventures Inc.) Pagosa Ranger District (11021306) Completed 

46297 Recreation—Outfitter Guide Permit Reissuance on 

Pagosa Ranger District (Step Outdoors) 

Pagosa Ranger District (11021306) Completed 

47409 Recreation Special Uses—Transition to Priority Permits South Park Ranger District (11021210) Completed 

44815 Reissue Brush Creek SUP for a livestock area Gunnison Ranger District (11020407) Completed 

46299 Reissue five expiring priority use O/G Permits on the 

Eagle-Holy Cross District 

East Zone/Holy Cross Ranger District 

(11021507) 

Completed 

37040 Reynolds FLPMA Private Road Easement Mystic Ranger District (11020306) Completed 

46625 RMBL Special Use Permit Reissuance Gunnison Ranger District (11020407) Completed 

46687 Roberts Creek Water Conveyance System Grand Mesa Uncompahgre and Gunnison 

National Forest All Units (11020400) 

Completed 

42771 Rochford Road Meadow Enhancement Northern Hills Ranger District (11020308) Completed 

45819 Rock Creek Native Cutthroat Trout Reintroduction South Park Ranger District (11021210) Completed 

46825 Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory (RMBL) Permit Renewal and Combination Grand Mesa Uncompahgre and Gunnison 

National Forest All Units (11020400) 

Completed 

46167 Rocky Mountain Sled Dog Recreation Event—5 Years Grand Valley Ranger District (11020402) Completed 

45253 Samson and Finley Road Reconstruction off Jenney 

Trail 

Douglas and Thunder Basin Ranger District (11020609) Completed 

43504 Samson Powerline Douglas and Thunder Basin Ranger District (11020609) Completed 

43833 Sand Creek Russian Olive Project Pine Ridge Ranger District (11020702) Completed 

47458 Sawmill Gulch Non system route closure Leadville Ranger District (11021201) Completed 

47394 Sheep Salvage Timber Sale White River National Forest All Units 

(11021500) 

Completed 

47286 Sheridan College Weather Tower Bighorn National Forest All Units 

(11020200) 

Completed 

46260 Silent Hill Mining Plan of Operations Pike and San Isabel National Forests and 

Cimarron and Comanche National 

Grasslands All Units (11021200) 

Completed 

46422 Silver Pick Winter Route Grand Mesa Uncompahgre and Gunnison 

National Forest All Units (11020400) 

Completed 

43631 Slate Creek Quarry Black Hills National Forest All Units 

(11020300) 

Completed 

45307 Snowmobile Grooming Permit—Flattoppers and Rifle 

Snowmobile Clubs 

West Zone/Rifle Ranger District 

(11021508) 

Completed 

44971 Snowy Range Ski Area 2014 Projects Laramie Ranger District (11020605) Completed 

46754 Soda Butte Creek Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout Restoration Project Clarks Fork Ranger District (11021401) Completed 

46876 Solihull Society—Land Rover Rally Grand Valley Ranger District (11020402) Completed 

45849 Southwest Colorado Television Translator Assoc. Permit Reissuance Grand Mesa Uncompahgre and Gunnison 

National Forest All Units (11020400) 

Completed 

45729 Special Use Permit for Mountain Sucker Research Black Hills National Forest All Units 

(11020300) 

Completed 

45116 Special Use Permit Reissuance for Fifteen Outfitter/ 

Guide Priority Use Permits. 

White River National Forest All Units 

(11021500) 

Completed 

44871 Special Use Permit Reissuance for Seven Transitional 

Priority Use Permits. 

West Zone/Sopris Ranger District 

(11021503) 

Completed 

46255 Special Uses—2014/2015 Outfitter/Guide Permit Renewals Mancos/Dolores Ranger District 

(11021305) 

Completed 

45924 Special Uses—Ditch Bill Easement, Steward No. 3 

Ditch to Mark Condiotti 

Columbine Ranger District (11021308) Completed 

45481 Special Uses—Leche Creek Road Access Pagosa Ranger District (11021306) Completed 

44509 Special Uses—PAWSD (Pagosa Area Water & 

San.)Permit Reissuance for all water lines on 

Pagosa Dist. 

Pagosa Ranger District (11021306) Completed 

46370 Special Uses—Smith Treasure Hunting Permit Pagosa Ranger District (11021306) Completed 

46371 Special Uses—Three Meadows Ranch Sign Pagosa Ranger District (11021306) Completed 

47552 State of Colorado—2013 Sunlight Peak Communication Site Tower Rebuild and Lease Renewal West Zone/Sopris Ranger District 

(11021503) 

Completed 

46358 Sturgis BAM Amendment Northern Hills Ranger District (11020308) Completed 

45788 Summer Construction Projects at Breckenridge East Zone/Dillon Ranger District 

(11021510) 

Completed 

46737 Summer Construction projects at Keystone East Zone/Dillon Ranger District 

(11021510) 

Completed 

46262 The Bank Plan of Operations Pike and San Isabel National Forests and 

Cimarron and Comanche National 

Grasslands All Units (11021200) 

Completed 

46881 Thunder Mountain Lodge Resort Permit Reissuance Grand Valley Ranger District (11020402) Completed 

45614 Tie City Multi-use Trail Development Laramie Ranger District (11020605) Completed 

45674 Toe Gulch #2 Placer Mining Hell Canyon Ranger District (11020303) Completed 

42085 Tomaha Ridge Sanitary District PAH537 Black Hills National Forest All Units 

(11020300) 

Completed 

46359 Touch the Sky Rockclimbing Northern Hills Ranger District (11020308) Completed 

46622 Town of Crested Butte Special Use Permit 

Reissuance 

Gunnison Ranger District (11020407) Completed 

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Project 

No. Project Name Lead Management Unit Overall NEPA Process Status 

45319 Town of Telluride Water Storage and Treatment Facilities Norwood Ranger District (11020405) Completed 

44792 Town of Yampa Water Pipeline Installation. Yampa Ranger District (11020601) Completed 

44538 TSG Ski & Golf Fen Monitoring Sites Grand Mesa Uncompahgre and Gunnison 

National Forest All Units (11020400) 

Completed 

44758 Tunnel Water Company Maintenance Site Canyon Lakes Ranger District (11021005) Completed 

36326 Tuscarora Road Association Boulder Ranger District (11021001) Completed 

46210 Vail and Beaver Creek Summer Construction CE White River National Forest All Units 

(11021500) 

Completed 

43712 Wall Prescribe Burn Complex Wall Ranger District (11020706) Completed 

47660 Washington Carver LLC and Jason Gregg—Land Access Permits on Richmond Ridge West Zone/Aspen Ranger District 

(11021501) 

Completed 

45341 Washington Gulch Winter Recreation Management Gunnison Ranger District (11020407) Completed 

46322 Watershed—Redburn Ditch Riparian Project Mancos/Dolores Ranger District 

(11021305) 

Completed 

44843 Watson Forest Road SUP Renewal Gunnison Ranger District (11020407) Completed 

45081 West Ash Fire Reforestation Project Pine Ridge Ranger District (11020702) Completed 

46564 West Carter Allotment Water Development Repair/ 

Relocation 

Parks Ranger District (11020604) Completed 

47664 West Fork Fire Complex Tree Planting Divide Ranger District (11020904) Completed 

46143 West Hell Reforestation Project Hell Canyon Ranger District (11020303) Completed 

43795 West Pinos Salvage Divide Ranger District (11020904) Completed 

43520 Williams Private Road Easement Grand Mesa Uncompahgre and Gunnison 

National Forest All Units (11020400) 

Completed 

46954 Willow Creek Bridge #1 and #2 Replacements Gunnison Ranger District (11020407) Completed 

47112 Wolf Creek Hazard Tree Removal for Site Protection West Zone/Sopris Ranger District 

(11021503) 

Completed 

46458 Wood River Outhouse Greybull Ranger District (11021402) Completed 

45801 Wyoming Department of Transportation Burgess 

Junction Maintenance Camp Special Use Permit 

Reissuance 

Bighorn National Forest All Units 

(11020200) 

Completed 

47302 Wyoming Department of Transportation Waterline Bighorn National Forest All Units 

(11020200) 

Completed 

45712 Wyoming Game and Fish Commission Snow Lake 

Cabin 

Tongue Ranger District (11020206) Completed 

47259 Young Life Hiking Permit Sulphur Ranger District (11021008) Completed 

Region: R3—Southwestern Region (1103) 

Decision Doc Type: DM 

NEPA Decision Signed Date Range: 10/01/2014 through 09/30/2015 

Project Simple Format 

Projects Found: 94 

47357 2 Year Permit Issuance for Sabino Canyon Tours Santa Catalina Ranger District (11030505) Completed 

45894 2015 Green Fuelwood Areas Camino Real Ranger District (11030204) Completed 

47107 Anita Allotment Fence Modification Project Tusayan Ranger District (11030704) Completed 

45113 Apache Unit 71 Triple Well Black Kettle National Grassland 

(11030306) 

Completed 

47115 APS Mt. Elden Distribution Line Reconstruction 

Project 

Flagstaff Ranger District (11030408) Completed 

40888 Arizona Balloon Works, Inc. Special Use Permit Reissue Verde Ranger District (11030905) Completed 

46688 Arizona Trail Gate Improvement Project Mogollon Rim Ranger District (11030407) Completed 

46781 Arnold Mesa Wildlife Water Development Verde Ranger District (11030905) Completed 

48092 ATV Tours Outfitter Guide Priority SUP Verde Ranger District (11030905) Completed 

44976 Aven Associates, LLC Plan of Operations July 2014 Gila National Forest All Units (11030600) Completed 

46319 Baker Butte Coconino County Sheriff’s Communication Lease Mogollon Rim Ranger District (11030407) Completed 

46888 Bar X Tanks Pleasant Valley Ranger District 

(11031205) 

Completed 

45251 Bartlett Lake Marina Permit Reissuance Cave Creek Ranger District (11031201) Completed 

45981 Bear Canyon Bark Beetle Sanitation Project Santa Catalina Ranger District (11030505) Completed 

42403 Big Horn Mountain / Stateline Tres Piedras Ranger District (11030206) Completed 

46226 Board Tree Saddle Mineral Material Source Pleasant Valley Ranger District 

(11031205) 

Completed 

46546 Bradshaw Ranch Climate Change Experimental Garden Array Research Permit Coconino National Forest All Units 

(11030400) 

Completed 

46207 Bulldog Canyon Area Unauthorized Uninventoried 

Route Obliteration Project 

Tonto National Forest All Units 

(11031200) 

Completed 

46782 Carlota Copper Company Solar Photo Voltaic Permit 

Application 

Tonto National Forest All Units 

(11031200) 

Completed 

45574 Cave Creek Flooding Emergency Response Douglas Ranger District (11030501) Completed 

46313 Chambers Road Association Proposal Tres Piedras Ranger District (11030206) Completed 

44157 Cloudriders Snowmobile Club Shelter Sacramento Ranger District (11030802) Completed 

45054 Collection of Baseline Geotechnical Data along the 

Gila River for Potential Project Feasibility 

Gila National Forest All Units (11030600) Completed 

45577 Columbus Electric Co-op Cave Creek Line Repair, 

Phase One, Non 404 Permit Repairs 

Coronado National Forest All Units 

(11030500) 

Completed 

45045 Communication Site Use Reissues on Towers Mtn. 

and Mt. Frances 

Bradshaw Ranger District (11030903) Completed 

46227 Connor Canyon Mineral Material Source Pleasant Valley Ranger District 

(11031205) 

Completed 

45051 Construction of the Verizon Wireless Cellular Communications Facility on San Francisco Divide Mtn. Gila National Forest All Units (11030600) Completed 

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Project 

No. Project Name Lead Management Unit Overall NEPA Process Status 

46976 Copper Falls Trail and OHV Reroutes Verde Ranger District (11030905) Completed 

48401 Copper Falls Trail and OHV Trail Reroutes Verde Ranger District (11030905) Completed 

24903 Dahl FLPMA Private Road Special Use Permit Flagstaff Ranger District (11030408) Completed 

45902 Deer Creek Complex Allotment Drift Fence Questa Ranger District (11030207) Completed 

45665 El Paso Natural Gas Company Standby Generator 

Installation 

Flagstaff Ranger District (11030408) Completed 

47024 Firescape Barboot Canyon Watershed Restoration Douglas Ranger District (11030501) Completed 

47044 Firescape Tex Canyon Watershed Restoration Douglas Ranger District (11030501) Completed 

44706 Fish Barrier Maintenance Wilderness Ranger District (11030605) Completed 

46184 Fish Creek Mineral Material Borrow Source Mesa Ranger District (11031203) Completed 

45075 Flagstaff Ranger District 2014 Special Use Permit 

Reissuances 

Flagstaff Ranger District (11030408) Completed 

45423 Forest-wide Filming and Photography Permit 

Reissuances 

Tonto National Forest All Units 

(11031200) 

Completed 

47378 Forest-wide Wildflower Planting for Pollinators and 

Traditional Uses 

Glenwood Ranger District (11030604) Completed 

45640 Forestwide planting for traditional uses and pollinators on the Coronado National Forest Coronado National Forest All Units 

(11030500) 

Completed 

45202 Forestwide PNF Big Chino Guide Outiftter/Guide 

Special Use Permit 

Prescott National Forest All Units 

(11030900) 

Completed 

45205 Forestwide PNF Starr Guide Service Outfitter/Guide 

Special Use Permit 

Prescott National Forest All Units 

(11030900) 

Completed 

47608 GovNet Porter Mountain Telecommunication Facility 

Project 

Lakeside Ranger District (11030107) Completed 

46389 Greater Prescott Trails #1—Short Term Projects Bradshaw Ranger District (11030903) Completed 

44263 Greaterville Abandoned Mine Lands (AML) Safety 

Remediation 

Nogales Ranger District (11030502) Completed 

46774 Gust Spring & Reservoir Protection Project Springerville Ranger District (11030106) Completed 

46340 House Pond Liner Installation Sierra Vista Ranger District (11030503) Completed 

46918 Install Buck Trick Tank Lincoln National Forest All Units 

(11030800) 

Completed 

46021 Kit Carson Electric Cooperative Palo Flechado Pass 

Fiber Optic Installation 

Camino Real Ranger District (11030204) Completed 

46109 Lynx Lake Fish Habitat Improvement Project Bradshaw Ranger District (11030903) Completed 

46129 Maintenance of 260 Trail Mesa Ranger District (11031203) Completed 

46128 McDougal Flat Grassland Restoration Project Williams Ranger District (11030701) Completed 

47034 Mingus Mtn. Wildlife Water Developments Verde Ranger District (11030905) Completed 

46197 Miss Cindy Pasture Fence Realignment Red Rock Ranger District (11030406) Completed 

42984 Mogollon Rim Christmas Tree Cutting Project, Wildcat Springs Area Mogollon Rim Ranger District (11030407) Completed 

46126 Mogollon Rim Ranger District 2015 Special Use Permit Reauthorizations Mogollon Rim Ranger District (11030407) Completed 

44899 Mt. Hopkins Re-Entry Thinning Project Nogales Ranger District (11030502) Completed 

46634 National Park Service and Other Federal Users At 

Mt. Elden Communication Site 

Flagstaff Ranger District (11030408) Completed 

46889 New Dutchman Well Pleasant Valley Ranger District 

(11031205) 

Completed 

46890 New Soldier Camp Tanks Pleasant Valley Ranger District 

(11031205) 

Completed 

46223 Newtown Avenue Trailhead Bradshaw Ranger District (11030903) Completed 

44234 NKRD Eastside Wildlife Water Development and Redevelopment Project North Kaibab Ranger District (11030703) Completed 

45324 Parallel Prescribed Burn Pleasant Valley Ranger District 

(11031205) 

Completed 

45347 Permit Reissue for Archaeology Investigating Companies Coronado National Forest All Units 

(11030500) 

Completed 

46650 Placitas & Piedra Lisa Trail Project Sandia Ranger District (11030305) Completed 

36219 Plan of Operation, Sunnyside Minerals Exploration in 

Humboldt Canyon 

Sierra Vista Ranger District (11030503) Completed 

45156 Pronghorn Fence Modification Project—Phase II Flagstaff Ranger District (11030408) Completed 

46867 PS and Grandfather Allotment New Mexico Meadow 

Jumping Mouse Fence Exclosures Project 

Alpine Ranger District (11030101) Completed 

41793 Red Rock RD 2013 Permit Reauthorizations Coconino National Forest All Units 

(11030400) 

Completed 

43876 Red Rock Trails Phase IV Red Rock Ranger District (11030406) Completed 

38557 Reissuance of Outfitter/Guide Use in Broken Arrow Red Rock Ranger District (11030406) Completed 

47003 Rio Verde Fuels Reduction Project Cave Creek Ranger District (11031201) Completed 

45700 Road Permit for El Capitan Precious Metals, Inc. Lincoln National Forest All Units 

(11030800) 

Completed 

45250 Saguaro Lake Marina Permit Reissuance Mesa Ranger District (11031203) Completed 

46940 Silver Creek #7—Plan of Operation Black Range Ranger District (11030602) Completed 

46775 Sipapu Ski & Summer Resort 2015 Trail Improvement Projects Camino Real Ranger District (11030204) Completed 

45783 Ski Santa Fe Improvement Project Water Tank Espanola Ranger District (11031006) Completed 

46338 Smuggler Cove Weather Station Douglas Ranger District (11030501) Completed 

45393 Special Use Permit Outfitter Guide Renewals Coronado National Forest All Units 

(11030500) 

Completed 

45641 SRP/Maricopa County Humboldt Mountain Communication Site Rebuild Tonto National Forest All Units 

(11031200) 

Completed 

47242 Sunset Crater National Monument Waterline Replacement Flagstaff Ranger District (11030408) Completed 

44652 Sunset Crater Volcano National Monument Trails Flagstaff Ranger District (11030408) Completed 

35136 Superior Wildlife Water Catchments Globe Ranger District (11031202) Completed 

47213 Taos Ski Valley Sutton Place Utility Installation and 

Culvert Replacement 

Questa Ranger District (11030207) Completed 

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Project 

No. Project Name Lead Management Unit Overall NEPA Process Status 

45219 TDS Telecom Mormon Mountain Communication Site 

Buried Fiber Optic Cable 

Flagstaff Ranger District (11030408) Completed 

47215 Telecommunications Site Renewals Mount Taylor Ranger District (11030302) Completed 

43194 Three Mile Lake and Horse Lake Fencing Project Williams Ranger District (11030701) Completed 

44233 Trailside Rest Area on the Meadow Trail Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests All 

Units (11030100) 

Completed 

46066 Upper Rio San Antonio Tres Piedras Ranger District (11030206) Completed 

46177 Vigil Springs Wetland Restoration and Riparian 

Habitat Improvement Project 

Glenwood Ranger District (11030604) Completed 

47220 Weather Stations Project Cibola National Forest All Units 

(11030300) 

Completed 

47058 Wildlife Water Catchments Cave Creek Ranger District (11031201) Completed 

44429 Wildlife Water Improvement Projects—Galiuro Mountains Safford Ranger District (11030504) Completed 

35304 Zirkle & Darnell Special Use Road Access Gila National Forest All Units (11030600) Completed 

Region: R4—Intermountain Region (1104) 

Decision Doc Type: DM 

NEPA Decision Signed Date Range: 10/01/2014 through 09/30/2015 

Project Simple Format 

Projects Found: 105 

42107 2015 Radio System Improvements Minidoka Ranger District (11041401) Completed 

46925 2015 Range Improvements New Meadows Ranger District (11041203) Completed 

42507 Allred Adventures special use permit renewal Lowman Ranger District (11040205) Completed 

46459 Alta 2015 Summer Projects Salt Lake Ranger District (11041901) Completed 

44931 Alta Ski Area Avalanche Mitigation Permit Salt Lake Ranger District (11041901) Completed 

46499 ATC Communications Juniper to Holbrook Fiber 

Optic Line 

Westside Ranger District (11041557) Completed 

46559 Bald Mountain Repeater Site Mountain Home Ranger District 

(11040201) 

Completed 

45627 Bear River Project GeoExplore Logan Ranger District (11041907) Completed 

45647 Beef Pasture Pipeline Heber-Kamas Ranger District (11041903) Completed 

43411 Big Springs Gold Exploration Project Mountain City Ranger District (11041706) Completed 

46251 Butterfly Lake Trail Heber-Kamas Ranger District (11041903) Completed 

41500 C and W Placer Exploration Idaho City Ranger District (11040203) Completed 

46355 Canyon Creek Stream Restoration Project Leadore Ranger District (11041308) Completed 

44080 Challis Municipal Fuels Reduction Thinning Project Challis-Yankee Fork Ranger District 

(11041302) 

Completed 

45198 Citizens Telecom. Co. of Idaho dba Frontier Communications Alpine Meadows Burried Copper Phone 

Line 

New Meadows Ranger District (11041203) Completed 

45188 Citizens Telecomunications Co. of Idaho dba Frontier 

Communications Ecks Flat Fiber Optic Line SUP. 

New Meadows Ranger District (11041203) Completed 

43615 Climbing Areas Stabilization projects Salt Lake Ranger District (11041901) Completed 

38901 Cold Springs Watershed and Stream Habitat Restoration Phase II Santa Rosa Ranger District (11041710) Completed 

47098 Cottonwood Lake Dam Spillway Greys River Ranger District (11040303) Completed 

41502 Daltons Delight Placer Exploration Idaho City Ranger District (11040203) Completed 

46494 Darby Church Camp Improvements Teton Basin Ranger District (11041556) Completed 

47223 Deadline Ridge Lot 9 Cabin Improvements Minidoka Ranger District (11041401) Completed 

44422 Dry Wash Wildlife Project Ferron Ranger District (11041002) Completed 

46508 East Boulder Placer Exploration Project East Boulder Placer Exploration Project Salmon-Cobalt Ranger District (11041301) Completed 

43370 Elk Post-Fire Restoration Reforestation Project Mountain Home Ranger District 

(11040201) 

Completed 

46574 Etca White—reauthorization of 3 permits Jackson Ranger District (11040304) Completed 

45760 Expansion of Winter Parking in Alpine Greys River Ranger District (11040303) Completed 

40245 FAA Shed Fuel Reduction Cascade Ranger District (11040204) Completed 

47280 Fall River Electric Special Use Amendment Boot 

Jack Buried Powerline 

Ashton/Island Park (11041552) Completed 

44465 Feather River Post-Fire Restoration Reforestation 

Project 

Mountain Home Ranger District 

(11040201) 

Completed 

44171 Fish Creek Watershed Improvement Project Palisades Ranger District (11041554) Completed 

45181 Forgy Water System Special Use Authorization 

Reissuance 

New Meadows Ranger District (11041203) Completed 

34851 Greater Snow King Area Trails (formerly Skyline 

Trail/Putt Putt Extension) 

Jackson Ranger District (11040304) Completed 

44507 Greendale Water Company Facility Upgrade Project Flaming Gorge Ranger District (11040101) Completed 

47167 Hades Creek Bridge Replacement Project Duchesne Ranger District (11040104) Completed 

45668 Harmening Road right-of-way reauthorization Jackson Ranger District (11040304) Completed 

45296 Hawkeye Gulch Exploration Trenching Project Salmon-Cobalt Ranger District (11041301) Completed 

45999 Hazard Tree Removal Project Spring Mountains National Recreation 

Area (11041705) 

Completed 

46872 Hoback Campground Host Site—installation of electrical cabling Jackson Ranger District (11040304) Completed 

45265 Hope Valley Restoration Carson Ranger District (11041701) Completed 

44895 Idaho Department of Fish and Game Administrative 

Site Special Use Permit 

Sawtooth National Recreation Area 

(11041404) 

Completed 

47222 Idaho Military Division Improvements Minidoka Ranger District (11041401) Completed 

45186 Idaho Power Company McCall-New Meadows 138kV 

Transmission Line Special Use Permit 

New Meadows Ranger District (11041203) Completed 

44431 Idaho Power SUA Reissue—Evergreen Distribution 

Line 

Council Ranger District (11041201) Completed 

46532 Idaho Pride Plan of Operations Idaho City Ranger District (11040203) Completed 

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No. Project Name Lead Management Unit Overall NEPA Process Status 

46919 Indianhead Bowhunters Recreation Event Special 

Use Permit Reissue 

Weiser Ranger District (11041202) Completed 

39513 Issuing New Permits for Expired Outfitter & Guide 

Permits 

Salmon-Challis National Forest All Units 

(11041300) 

Completed 

43602 Jackson Creek Trail (#116) Re-route Project McCall Ranger District (11041204) Completed 

42074 Keegan Driveway Access Bridgeport Ranger District (11041702) Completed 

46902 Kenya’s Quest Exploratory Drilling Duchesne Ranger District (11040104) Completed 

44317 Kingston Vegetation Restoration Project Austin Ranger District (11041703) Completed 

45648 Lagoon Pipeline Heber-Kamas Ranger District (11041903) Completed 

44017 Lake Creek Riparian and Stream Enhancement 

Project 

Ketchum Ranger District (11041403) Completed 

44933 LDS Brighton Girls Camp Building Upgrades Salt Lake Ranger District (11041901) Completed 

46174 Little Res II Beaver Ranger District (11040803) Completed 

45679 Logan Ranger District Office Acquisition Logan Ranger District (11041907) Completed 

46563 Mammoth Creek Fish Barriers Dixie National Forest All Units (11040700) Completed 

41533 McFarland Canyon Fence Project Spring Mountains National Recreation 

Area (11041705) 

Completed 

45088 Monitor Valley-Little Fishlake, Pasco and Toiyabe 

Bench Pinyon—Juniper Removal Project 

Austin Ranger District (11041703) Completed 

45649 Mud Creek Pipeline Heber-Kamas Ranger District (11041903) Completed 

46323 Mustang Ridge Wildlife Water Guzzler Ashley National Forest All Units 

(11040100) 

Completed 

47515 Navajo Cinder Pit Reclamation Project Dixie National Forest All Units (11040700) Completed 

40851 Old China Placer Exploration Idaho City Ranger District (11040203) Completed 

45757 Pahsimeroi Allotment Spring Rehabilitation Challis-Yankee Fork Ranger District 

(11041302) 

Completed 

44180 Pebble Creek Diversion Project Westside Ranger District (11041557) Completed 

44950 Pelican Beach Parking Expansion Ogden Ranger District (11041906) Completed 

44437 Pine Telephone Fiber Optic Cable SUA Reissue— 

Hells Canyon 

Council Ranger District (11041201) Completed 

42920 Pine Valley Eastside Trails Enhancement Pine Valley Ranger District (11040701) Completed 

45927 Provo Warehouse Conveyance Pleasant Grove Ranger District (11041902) Completed 

45093 Quantum Jarbidge Exploration Project Jarbidge Ranger District (11041708) Completed 

45157 Rainbow Canyon Diversion Structure Spring Mountains National Recreation 

Area (11041705) 

Completed 

45469 Redfish—Road #210 Post-Insect Outbreak Fuels 

Project 

Sawtooth National Recreation Area 

(11041404) 

Completed 

45659 Rocky Mountain Power Structure Install, Replacement, Phase Raising Ogden Ranger District (11041906) Completed 

44854 Royal Vacation Homes Water Association Special Use 

Permit Reissuance 

Palisades Ranger District (11041554) Completed 

43897 Santaquin WUI Spanish Fork Ranger District (11041908) Completed 

43106 Silver Lake Boardwalk replacement Salt Lake Ranger District (11041901) Completed 

45798 Snow King Mountain Rafferty Lift Replacement and 

Ski Trail Construction 

Jackson Ranger District (11040304) Completed 

44958 Snowbasin Resort Water Impoundment Ogden Ranger District (11041906) Completed 

46707 Snowbird Mineral Basin Howitzer mount Uinta-Wasatch-Cache All Units (11041900) Completed 

46704 Snowbird Path to Paradise ski run modification Uinta-Wasatch-Cache All Units (11041900) Completed 

44285 SnowKing Mountain Aerial Adventure Course Jackson Ranger District (11040304) Completed 

44930 Solitude Summit Lift Upgrade/Relocation Salt Lake Ranger District (11041901) Completed 

46253 South Fork Fish Weir SUP Project Cascade Ranger District (11040204) Completed 

45941 South Grove Creek Trail (237) Reroute Teton Basin Ranger District (11041556) Completed 

45651 South Streeper Corral Pipeline Heber-Kamas Ranger District (11041903) Completed 

45777 Spring Gulch Grazing Allotment Fencing Project Challis-Yankee Fork Ranger District 

(11041302) 

Completed 

46101 Stanley Cemetery Special Use Permit Sawtooth National Recreation Area 

(11041404) 

Completed 

33117 Star Valley Front Vegetation Management Greys River Ranger District (11040303) Completed 

45079 Strawberry Marina Outfitter and Guide Permit 

Reissuance, Operations 

Heber-Kamas Ranger District (11041903) Completed 

45078 Strawberry Marina Outfitter and Guide Permit 

Reissuance, Property 

Heber-Kamas Ranger District (11041903) Completed 

46421 Sun Valley Super Enduro & Cross-Country Mountain 

Bike Race SUP 

Ketchum Ranger District (11041403) Completed 

46504 Table Mountain Outfitters Special Use Permit Renewal Lowman Ranger District (11040205) Completed 

46146 Temple Fork Juniper Treatment Project Logan Ranger District (11041907) Completed 

45697 Teton Village Water & Sewer—reauthorization of 

sewer transmission line 

Jackson Ranger District (11040304) Completed 

45645 Tibble Fork Communications Pleasant Grove Ranger District (11041902) Completed 

45704 Trail Construction/Reconstruction near Star Valley 

Ranch 

Greys River Ranger District (11040303) Completed 

47279 University of Utah Special Use Permit Moose Creek 

Seismograph Station 

Ashton/Island Park (11041552) Completed 

43282 Vantage 2014 Oil and Gas Project Ashley National Forest All Units 

(11040100) 

Completed 

42899 Warren Meadow Placer McCall Ranger District (11041204) Completed 

45823 Warren Water Systems Payette National Forest All Units 

(11041200) 

Completed 

46145 Water Transmission Line Authorization—Awve Jackson Ranger District (11040304) Completed 

45989 West Fork Confluence Stream Restoration Project Challis-Yankee Fork Ranger District 

(11041302) 

Completed 

41751 West Pine Creek Stream Restoration Palisades Ranger District (11041554) Completed 

45705 Williams Creek Project Emmett Ranger District (11040206) Completed 

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Project 

No. Project Name Lead Management Unit Overall NEPA Process Status 

25665 Williams Restoration Salmon-Cobalt Ranger District (11041301) Completed 

Region: R5—Pacific Southwest Region (1105) 

Decision Doc Type: DM 

NEPA Decision Signed Date Range: 10/01/2014 through 09/30/2015 

Project Simple Format 

Projects Found: 179 

45847 Beasore Rd (5S07)/Cold Springs Summit parking 

OSV Winter Mtnce 

Bass Lake Ranger District (11051551) Completed 

44777 5 Year Enduro Grindstone Ranger District (11050853) Completed 

47281 Alder Creek Commemorative Overland Emigrant 

Trail Project 

Truckee Ranger District (11051757) Completed 

44776 Alder Springs Valley View Conservation Camp Special Use Permit Grindstone Ranger District (11050853) Completed 

45427 Alta Sierra Mutual Water Company Special Use Permit Renewal Kern River Ranger District (11051354) Completed 

46214 Antelope Plains Sage Steppe Restoration Devils Garden Ranger District (11050955) Completed 

43629 Barry Point South 2015 Reforestation Devils Garden Ranger District (11050955) Completed 

45158 Big Creek community Fuel Break High Sierra Ranger District (11051552) Completed 

44574 Big Grizzly Creek Rehabilitation Project (Prop50) Beckwourth Ranger District (11051101) Completed 

45726 Big Pine Fire Department Westgard Communication 

Tower 

Mount Whitney Ranger District 

(11050454) 

Completed 

46739 Blodgett Forest Sign Special Use Permit Eldorado National Forest All Units 

(11050300) 

Completed 

45227 Bogard Well Eagle Lake Ranger District (11050658) Completed 

45854 Bucks Lake Phone Line Project Mt. Hough Ranger District (11051102) Completed 

46759 Bud’s Alley Widening Eldorado National Forest All Units 

(11050300) 

Completed 

46738 Bunker Hill Road Use Permit Eldorado National Forest All Units 

(11050300) 

Completed 

47346 Cal Trans Chips Creek Mineral Materials Permit Mt. Hough Ranger District (11051102) Completed 

45883 Cal-Trans Highway 89 Hazard Tree Removal Hat Creek Ranger District (11050653) Completed 

44825 Camp Richardson Corral Permit Reissuance Lake Tahoe Basin Mgt Unit (11051900) Completed 

46760 Chair 11 Slope Stabilization Eldorado National Forest All Units 

(11050300) 

Completed 

47247 Challenge Substation Salvage Feather River Ranger District (11051103) Completed 

44113 Childs Meadow Fence Project Almanor Ranger District (11050651) Completed 

46236 City of Portola Water Line Replacement Beckwourth Ranger District (11051101) Completed 

36594 Cow Creek Permanent Fence Exclosure (Prop50) Beckwourth Ranger District (11051101) Completed 

37988 Cowbell Enduro Special Use Permit Upper Lake Ranger District (11050854) Completed 

41540 Coyote Meadow Restoration Summit Ranger District (11051653) Completed 

47097 Crest Forest Fire Station #30 Expired Permit 

Reissuance 

Arrowhead Ranger District (11051251) Completed 

45498 Day Fire Salvage Big Valley Ranger District (11050954) Completed 

45445 Deer Crossing Camp Permit Re-issue Pacific Ranger District (11050355) Completed 

37895 Desert Water Agency Permit Renewal San Jacinto Ranger District (11051255) Completed 

42979 Dinkey Creek Inn Permit Renewal High Sierra Ranger District (11051552) Completed 

44897 Duff Creek Aquatic Organism Passage (AOP) Project Sierra National Forest All Units 

(11051500) 

Completed 

46474 Eagle Lake Recreation Area Windthrow and Hazard 

Removal 

Eagle Lake Ranger District (11050658) Completed 

45335 Elliot Meadow Restoration American River Ranger District 

(11051754) 

Completed 

45388 Etsel Water Tank Relocation Mendocino National Forest All Units 

(11050800) 

Completed 

46887 Fallon Naval Sea Cadets Land Navigation Course Beckwourth Ranger District (11051101) Completed 

46698 Feather River Canyon Services District SUP Amendment—Tobin R5—Pacific Southwest Region All Units 

(11050000) 

Completed 

46151 Ferretti OHV Restoration Groveland Ranger District (11051654) Completed 

46542 Finley Lake Turtle Structures Almanor Ranger District (11050651) Completed 

43919 Fort Goff Cemetery Special Use Permit Happy Camp Ranger District (11050552) Completed 

46712 Foster Apiary Special Use Permit Renewal Mendocino National Forest All Units 

(11050800) 

Completed 

46209 Fun Factory Modoc National Forest All Units 

(11050900) 

Completed 

46746 Gantry and Live Sign Installation Eldorado National Forest All Units 

(11050300) 

Completed 

46763 Georgetown Recreational Facility Fire Recovery 

Project 

Eldorado National Forest All Units 

(11050300) 

Completed 

40142 Glass Mountain Escarpment Sage-Grouse Habitat 

Enhancement 

Mono Ranger District (11050451) Completed 

45846 Gobbler Fire Reforestation Cajon Ranger District (11051253) Completed 

40860 Goff Fire Fuels Reduction Happy Camp Ranger District (11050552) Completed 

45466 Gold Arrow Camp Leach Field Expansion High Sierra Ranger District (11051552) Completed 

44691 Goosenest Ranger District Over Snow Vehicle Trail 

and Trailhead Maintenance 

Goosenest Ranger District (11050557) Completed 

46230 Gray Eagle Lodge Well and Leach Field Beckwourth Ranger District (11051101) Completed 

45696 Haiwee Creek and Division Creek Flood Damage Reconstruction Inyo National Forest All Units (11050400) Completed 

43301 Hall Water Transmission Pipeline Special Use Permit 

Renewal 

Happy Camp Ranger District (11050552) Completed 

46114 Hammerhorn Lake Improvements Mendocino National Forest All Units 

(11050800) 

Completed 

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Project 

No. Project Name Lead Management Unit Overall NEPA Process Status 

46745 Happiness Is Installation Eldorado National Forest All Units 

(11050300) 

Completed 

44355 Happy Valley Aspen and Meadow Restoration Project Beckwourth Ranger District (11051101) Completed 

46478 Hat Creek Blowdown and Hazard Tree Removal Hat Creek Ranger District (11050653) Completed 

45695 Hat Creek Work Center Fire Hazard Reduction 

Project 

Hat Creek Ranger District (11050653) Completed 

46454 High Sierra Ranger District OHV Special Use Events 

of 2015 

High Sierra Ranger District (11051552) Completed 

46475 Highway 44 Windthrow and Hazard Tree Removal Eagle Lake Ranger District (11050658) Completed 

42021 Homewood Mountain Resort 20 Year Ski Slope Permit Reissuance Lake Tahoe Basin Mgt Unit (11051900) Completed 

45685 Homewood Mountain Resort Snowcat Tours Lake Tahoe Basin Mgt Unit (11051900) Completed 

47613 Hughes Pond California Red-Legged Frog (CRLF) 

Critical Habitat Restoration Project 

Feather River Ranger District (11051103) Completed 

45874 Huntington Heliport Hazard Abatement Project High Sierra Ranger District (11051552) Completed 

45305 Huntington Lake Resort Permit Reissue to New 

Owners 

High Sierra Ranger District (11051552) Completed 

45970 Indian Valley Outpost SUP Reissue Yuba River Ranger District (11051753) Completed 

47388 Ingalls Underburn Beckwourth Ranger District (11051101) Completed 

45587 Installation of three dust monitoring cameras at 

Laws, Santa Rita, and Olancha/Sage Flat. 

White Mountain Ranger District 

(11050453) 

Completed 

44123 Issue Special Use Permit to PCWA for Passive Repeater American River Ranger District 

(11051754) 

Completed 

43917 Judith Blind Road Right of Way Special Use Permit 

Renewal 

Happy Camp Ranger District (11050552) Completed 

33149 Kern River Valley Gun Association Kern River Ranger District (11051354) Completed 

46762 King Fire Plantation Re-establishment Eldorado National Forest All Units 

(11050300) 

Completed 

44826 Kingsbury Stinger Trail Reconstruction and BMP Upgrade Project Lake Tahoe Basin Mgt Unit (11051900) Completed 

41579 Kral Orchard SUP Yuba River Ranger District (11051753) Completed 

46233 Lake Davis Trail Phase 2 Reroute Beckwourth Ranger District (11051101) Completed 

45541 Lakes Basin Paved Path—Lake George Connector Mammoth Ranger District (11050452) Completed 

46000 Lassen Day Fire Salvage Hat Creek Ranger District (11050653) Completed 

44378 Lava Spring Aspen and Spring Enhancement Project Beckwourth Ranger District (11051101) Completed 

44965 Lloyd Meadow Road Hazard Tree Felling Western Divide Ranger District (11051352) Completed 

40757 Long Valley OHV Restoration Summit Ranger District (11051653) Completed 

47168 Lorenzen—Haskins Creek Water Association Amendment Mt. Hough Ranger District (11051102) Completed 

45724 Los Angeles Department of Water & Power Stream 

Measuring Stations 

Mount Whitney Ranger District 

(11050454) 

Completed 

43021 M6 Maintenance and Stream Crossing Upgrades Upper Lake Ranger District (11050854) Completed 

45920 Madrone Wetland Co-op Mitigation Project Yuba River Ranger District (11051753) Completed 

44660 Mammoth Abondoned Mine Lands Project Mammoth Ranger District (11050452) Completed 

41756 Mammoth Creek Road Reroute and Stream Stabilization Mammoth Ranger District (11050452) Completed 

42414 MCCT Segment—Mosquito Lake to Pacific Valley Calaveras Ranger District (11051652) Completed 

46115 McIssac Road Use Permit Mendocino National Forest All Units 

(11050800) 

Completed 

41430 Mi-Wok OHV Restoration Mi-Wok Ranger District (11051651) Completed 

45294 Mile High Roadside Hazard Salvage Project Sierra National Forest All Units 

(11051500) 

Completed 

47273 Mill Creek Watershed Roads Shaded Fuel Break Scott River Ranger District (11050555) Completed 

44944 Miller Water Development Special Use Permit Mendocino National Forest All Units 

(11050800) 

Completed 

45493 Mills Placer Exploration Project Beckwourth Ranger District (11051101) Completed 

47033 Misery Hill Trail Project Weaverville Ranger District (11051456) Completed 

43293 Moffatt Water Transmission Pipeline Special Use 

Permit Renewal 

Happy Camp Ranger District (11050552) Completed 

43012 Mollie Clayton Cabin Removal Project Bass Lake Ranger District (11051551) Completed 

43854 Monterey Trails—On-Going Level 1 and Level 2 

Maintenance 

Monterey Ranger District (11050751) Completed 

45338 Moody Ridge Fuel Reduction Project American River Ranger District 

(11051754) 

Completed 

47132 ‘‘Moonlight Fire Restoration, Non-Motorized Trail 

Maintenance (RECM52) Peters Creek’’ 

Mt. Hough Ranger District (11051102) Completed 

46506 Mosquito Allotment 2015 Range Improvements American River Ranger District 

(11051754) 

Completed 

43430 Mountain Fire Reforestation Project San Jacinto Ranger District (11051255) Completed 

46820 Mud Lake Baker Cypress Restoration Project Mt. Hough Ranger District (11051102) Completed 

47127 NCPA Telecommunications Link Stanislaus National Forest All Units 

(11051600) 

Completed 

38098 NEON Flux Tower at Lower Teakettle High Sierra Ranger District (11051552) Completed 

38096 NEON Flux Tower at Soaproot Saddle High Sierra Ranger District (11051552) Completed 

40830 North District Motorized Trails Mi-Wok Ranger District (11051651) Completed 

46595 North Fork Salmon River Telephone Line Replacement Salmon River Ranger District (11050554) Completed 

45417 Oak Creek Mudflow Oak Tree Restoration Study Mount Whitney Ranger District 

(11050454) 

Completed 

45443 Oregon Fire Salvage and Reforestation Shasta Trinity National Forest All Units 

(11051400) 

Completed 

33026 Osa Meadow Restoration Project Kern River Ranger District (11051354) Completed 

46906 Outfitting and Guiding Special Use Permit Renewal Beckwourth Ranger District (11051101) Completed 

44603 Pacific Bell (AT&T) Master Special Use Permit 

Reissuance 

Tahoe National Forest All Units 

(11051700) 

Completed 

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Project 

No. Project Name Lead Management Unit Overall NEPA Process Status 

45055 Pacific Power & Light Company Water Transmission 

Pipeline Special Use Permit Renewal 

Goosenest Ranger District (11050557) Completed 

44859 Patton Mill Fuel Break Grindstone Ranger District (11050853) Completed 

43298 Pavan Water Transmission Pipeline Special Use Permit Renewal Happy Camp Ranger District (11050552) Completed 

46555 Pendola Fire Restoration Project Feather River Ranger District (11051103) Completed 

45316 Pilgrim Plantations Insect and Disease Project McCloud Ranger District (11051461) Completed 

26697 Pine Cove Fuelbreak Maintenance San Jacinto Ranger District (11051255) Completed 

45290 Ponderosa Telephone—High Sierra Ranger Station 

New Service 

High Sierra Ranger District (11051552) Completed 

45288 Ponderosa Telephone—Verizon Service at Huntington 

Condos 

High Sierra Ranger District (11051552) Completed 

47216 Ponderosa Telephone Co. conduit space lease and 

new fiber optic cable to Goat Mountain 

Sierra National Forest All Units 

(11051500) 

Completed 

46363 Ponderosa Telephone New Electronic Cabinet at 

Camp Sierra 

High Sierra Ranger District (11051552) Completed 

46258 Ponderosa Telephone New Service to Camp Sierra 

Lot 16 

High Sierra Ranger District (11051552) Completed 

45332 Ponderosa Telephone New Service to Camp Sierra 

Lot 41 

High Sierra Ranger District (11051552) Completed 

47274 Red Bank Off-channel Habitat Ground Water Monitoring Salmon River Ranger District (11050554) Completed 

47225 Reece Water Transmission Pipeline Happy Camp Ranger District (11050552) Completed 

46908 Reissue Special Use Permit to Lakeshore Resort Sierra National Forest All Units 

(11051500) 

Completed 

8979 Renew Pacific Bell’s expired phone line easements 

and special-use permits—CE 

Yuba River Ranger District (11051753) Completed 

47125 Research Permit, Dr. Jill Mateo Inyo National Forest All Units (11050400) Completed 

45422 Revised Shirley Fire Salvage And Forest Restoration 

Project 

Sequoia National Forest All Units 

(11051300) 

Completed 

46138 Reynolds OHV Development Groveland Ranger District (11051654) Completed 

45802 Rich Fire Spotted Owl and Goshawk Protected Activity Center Restoration Project Mt. Hough Ranger District (11051102) Completed 

47483 Rim 2016 Volunteer Planting Groveland Ranger District (11051654) Completed 

45860 Rim Fire Habitat Improvement Stanislaus National Forest All Units 

(11051600) 

Completed 

45861 Rim Fire Rehabilitation Stanislaus National Forest All Units 

(11051600) 

Completed 

36614 Riverside County Pinyon Pines Transfer Station Permit Renewal San Jacinto Ranger District (11051255) Completed 

44771 Salt Creek Conservation Camp Special Use Permit Grindstone Ranger District (11050853) Completed 

44364 Santa Anita Dam Spillway Modification and Facility 

Maintenance Project 

Los Angeles River (11050151) Completed 

45282 SCE China Peak 12kV Project High Sierra Ranger District (11051552) Completed 

45811 SCE Microwave Tree Removal Project Kern River Ranger District (11051354) Completed 

47272 Scott Bar Mountain Ridgeline Shaded Fuel Break Scott River Ranger District (11050555) Completed 

43911 Scott Bar Mountain Underburn and Habitat Improvement Project Scott River Ranger District (11050555) Completed 

46180 Seneca weeper dams maintenance project Ojai Ranger District (11050755) Completed 

45315 Shasta-McCloud Management Unit Over Snow Vehicle Trail Grooming and Snowmobile Facility Maintenance McCloud Ranger District (11051461) Completed 

45404 Shepherd Pass Trail Repair and Reconstruction Mount Whitney Ranger District 

(11050454) 

Completed 

45718 Sierra Bella Mutual Water Company Special Use 

Permit Renewal 

Kern River Ranger District (11051354) Completed 

46083 Sierra Institute Special Use Permit Mendocino National Forest All Units 

(11050800) 

Completed 

46155 Sierra Tel Business Systems communications use 

lease 

Sierra National Forest All Units 

(11051500) 

Completed 

47163 Sierra Telephone Company Fiber Optic Cable Installation to Emerald Cove Camp Bass Lake Ranger District (11051551) Completed 

47297 Sierra Telephone Company Inc. telephone line replacement at the Forest Service Jerseydale 

Workcenter 

Bass Lake Ranger District (11051551) Completed 

47422 Sierra Telephone Westfall Station Carrier Site and 

Fiber Optic Cable 

Bass Lake Ranger District (11051551) Completed 

46161 Silver Peak Communications Tower Reconstruction, 

Lease Reissuance and Communication Site Designation 

Inyo National Forest All Units (11050400) Completed 

45703 SMUD Hazard Tree Removal Project Eldorado National Forest All Units 

(11050300) 

Completed 

44759 Snowmobile Trail Grooming on the Inyo National 

Forest 

Mammoth Ranger District (11050452) Completed 

46116 Solar System at Soda Creek Mendocino National Forest All Units 

(11050800) 

Completed 

45453 Sourdough Hill Communication Site Authorization 

Re-issue 

Eldorado National Forest All Units 

(11050300) 

Completed 

47234 South Alma Salvage Mt. Hough Ranger District (11051102) Completed 

32323 South Fork Rubicon Area Resortation Project Pacific Ranger District (11050355) Completed 

46310 Southern California Gas Company’s Line 8109 Pipeline Exposure Repair Project—Phase 2 Los Padres National Forest All Units 

(11050700) 

Completed 

44111 Special Use Authorization Issuance for Expired Outfitter and Guide Permits Truckee Ranger District (11051757) Completed 

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Project 

No. Project Name Lead Management Unit Overall NEPA Process Status 

46259 Spring Creek Tract Well High Sierra Ranger District (11051552) Completed 

44778 Squirrel Creek Mine Exploration Project Beckwourth Ranger District (11051101) Completed 

47688 Storrie Fire Restoration Upper North Fork Road Improvement (HYDS72) Mt. Hough Ranger District (11051102) Completed 

45938 Swift Creek Watershed Trails Re-Route Project Weaverville Ranger District (11051456) Completed 

45293 Term Extensions District Ranger Authority High Sierra Ranger District (11051552) Completed 

45292 Term Extensions Forest Supervisor Authority High Sierra Ranger District (11051552) Completed 

46722 Trail 1 Restoration Mendocino National Forest All Units 

(11050800) 

Completed 

44239 Tsasdi Resort Dock, Road & Waterline Permits 

Transfer 

Shasta Lake Ranger District (11051458) Completed 

40318 Twombly Road Special Use Permit Renewal Kern River Ranger District (11051354) Completed 

45291 UC Merced New Repeater High Sierra Ranger District (11051552) Completed 

46610 UCR Deep Canyon Research Station Permit 

Reissuance in Pinyon Crest Sect 26 

San Jacinto Ranger District (11051255) Completed 

46843 Upgrade of Telecommunication Lines at Jack L Boyd 

Organization Camp 

Bass Lake Ranger District (11051551) Completed 

45658 Verizon Fiber Optic Cable Placement and Permit 

Amendment 

White Mountain Ranger District 

(11050453) 

Completed 

45448 Volcano Telephone Company Special Use Permit 

Amendment 

Amador Ranger District (11050351) Completed 

44029 Warner Mountain Obsidian Management Project Modoc National Forest All Units 

(11050900) 

Completed 

44229 Wetland Weed Treatment Devils Garden Ranger District (11050955) Completed 

47126 Willow Beetle Research Permit—Dr. Elizabth 

Dahlhoff 

White Mountain Ranger District 

(11050453) 

Completed 

47501 Wisseman Mine Restoration Project Bass Lake Ranger District (11051551) Completed 

43297 Yeager Water Transmission Pipeline Special Use Permit Renewal Happy Camp Ranger District (11050552) Completed 

46943 Yosemite Outfitters Permit Issuance Sierra National Forest All Units 

(11051500) 

Completed 

19616 Yosemite Sugar Pine Railroad Permit Reissue Bass Lake Ranger District (11051551) Completed 

Region: R6—Pacific Northwest Region (1106) 

Decision Doc Type: DM 

NEPA Decision Signed Date Range: 10/01/2014 through 09/30/2015 

Project Simple Format 

Projects Found: 174 

43995 Chiwawa PUD Hatchery Building Improvements CE Wenatchee River Ranger District 

(11061707) 

Completed 

42931 2013 Special Use Authorization Projects (reissue 9 

authorizations) 

Central Coast Ranger District/Oregon 

Dunes National Recreation Area 

(11061208) 

Completed 

44539 2014 Corvallis-to-the-Sea Trail Authorization Central Coast Ranger District/Oregon 

Dunes National Recreation Area 

(11061208) 

Completed 

44767 2014 Recreation Residence CE—Second Batch Crescent Ranger District (11060102) Completed 

44520 2014 Sweet Home White Oak Enhancement Project Sweet Home Ranger District (11061803) Completed 

47046 2015 Recreation Residence Projects—Odell Lake Crescent Ranger District (11060102) In Progress 

47038 2015 Recreation Residences Projects—Crescent Lake Crescent Ranger District (11060102) Completed 

47066 53 Road Pre-Commercial Thinning Project North Fork John Day Ranger District 

(11061405) 

Completed 

36205 7422’ Peak Radio Repeater Methow Valley Ranger District (11061704) Completed 

46283 Air Thin Project McKenzie River Ranger District 

(11061801) 

Completed 

47649 Alsea Guard Station Central Coast Ranger District/Oregon 

Dunes National Recreation Area 

(11061208) 

Completed 

45326 Annie Creek Snowcat Grooming Shelter Klamath Ranger District (11060213) Completed 

46744 Antelope 2015 Fire Lookout Viewing Area Maintenance Prairie City Ranger District (11060404) Completed 

44360 Aquatic Invasive Species order to prevent the spread 

or introduction of aquatic invasive species 

R6—Pacific Northwest Region All Units 

(11060000) 

Completed 

46648 Aquatic Resource Protection Project Mt. Baker Ranger District (11060501) Completed 

45688 Asotin Telephone Company dba TDS Telecom Special 

Use Permit 

Wallowa Valley Ranger District 

(11061602) 

Completed 

47741 Backcountry Restoration Treasured Landscapes Methow Valley Ranger District (11061704) Completed 

43948 Bayview Campground Redevelopment and Expansion Mt. Baker Ranger District (11060501) Completed 

45044 Beaver-friendly Culvert Management Hebo Ranger District (11061201) Completed 

45889 Bingham Fire Dozer Line Rehabilitation Detroit Ranger District (11061804) Completed 

39132 Bird Track TSI and Maintenance Burn La Grande Ranger District (11061606) Completed 

44356 Bitter Lick Creek Instream Restoration Project High Cascades Ranger District (11061024) Completed 

45797 Bridge 99 Fire Personal Use Firewood Project Sisters Ranger District (11060105) Completed 

45603 Brimstone Salvage Methow Valley Ranger District (11061704) Completed 

47081 Brown Mtn Western Spruce Budworm control spraying Republic Ranger District (11062104) Completed 

45334 Brown’s Cr. and Arnold Ice Cave Post Fire Restoration Bend/Fort Rock Ranger District 

(11060101) 

Completed 

41206 Bull Run Subwatershed Restoration Project Phase I Whitman Ranger District (11061631) Completed 

46961 CEC Suttle-Sherman Line Replacement Project Sisters Ranger District (11060105) Completed 

46530 Century Link Wagon Wheel Road Fiber Installation Sisters Ranger District (11060105) Completed 

47387 Chelan County Public Utility District (CCPUD) Pole 

Access and Maintenance CE 

Wenatchee River Ranger District 

(11061707) 

Completed 

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Project 

No. Project Name Lead Management Unit Overall NEPA Process Status 

46689 Chetco River Permit Re-issuance Gold Beach Ranger District (11061026) Completed 

46965 Cispus River Adult Fish Release Structure Cowlitz Ranger District (11060305) Completed 

44442 Cispus Side Channel Restoration Cowlitz Ranger District (11060305) Completed 

47094 City of Detroit Root Rot Timber Sale Detroit Ranger District (11061804) Completed 

45242 Clackamas County Waterline Installation Zigzag Ranger District (11060609) Completed 

46403 Colville National Forest Whitebark Pine Enhancement Project Colville National Forest All Units 

(11062100) 

Completed 

47389 Cooks Meadow Trail Relocation Project Mt. Hood National Forest All Units 

(11060600) 

Completed 

46191 Cottage Grove Deception Fire Planting Cottage Grove Ranger District (11061501) Completed 

44719 Cove Water Pipeline Replacement Project La Grande Ranger District (11061606) Completed 

43947 Cub Thin Project McKenzie River Ranger District 

(11061801) 

Completed 

42418 Cultus Lake and Lava Lake Resort Special Use Permit Bend/Fort Rock Ranger District 

(11060101) 

Completed 

46406 Culvert Removal in an Unnamed Salmon River Tributary Hebo Ranger District (11061201) Completed 

43237 CWU Geologic Monitoring Station Cle Elum Ranger District (11061703) Completed 

47106 Deception Fire Reforestation Middle Fork Ranger District (11061810) Completed 

47002 Delta A Cabin Expansion McKenzie River Ranger District 

(11061801) 

Completed 

46317 Delta A Cabin Improvements McKenzie River Ranger District 

(11061801) 

Completed 

47494 Delta A Septic Repair (#4) McKenzie River Ranger District 

(11061801) 

Completed 

44992 Deschutes Valley Water District—Opal Springs Special Use Permit Crooked River Natl Grassland (11060705) Completed 

46846 Developed Campground Hazard Tree Removal Emigrant Creek Ranger District 

(11060402) 

Completed 

39481 Disposal of Felled Hazard Trees in Developed Recreation Sites (2012 through 2016) Cle Elum Ranger District (11061703) On Hold 

45903 Dog Field Trials Project Ochoco National Forest All Units 

(11060700) 

Completed 

47129 Dosewallips: Forest Road 2610–012 Repair and Forest Road 2610–010 Maintenance Level Reduction Hood Canal Ranger District (11060901) Completed 

44645 Dumars Spring Whitman Ranger District (11061631) Completed 

44764 Early-Seral Open Wildlife Habitat Enhancements Olympic National Forest All Units 

(11060900) 

Completed 

43692 East Sheep FS Road 5184 Project La Grande Ranger District (11061606) Completed 

44087 Edwards Waterline Special Use Permit Renewal Walla Walla Ranger District (11061406) Completed 

47406 Fall Mountain Communication Site New Lease Term Blue Mountain Ranger District (11060401) Completed 

46788 Fender Mill Infiltration Gallery SUP Methow Valley Ranger District (11061704) Completed 

45982 Five Mile Fire Salvage Project Hells Canyon NRA (11061604) Completed 

41258 Five Points Creek Large Woody Debris and Planting 

Project 

La Grande Ranger District (11061606) Completed 

39842 Forest Plan Amendment for Unique and Mosaic 

Habitats 

Umpqua National Forest All Units 

(11061500) 

Completed 

46201 Fourth of July Creek Restoration Newport Ranger District (11062103) Completed 

45058 Fritillaria gentneri Reintroduction and Augmentation Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest All 

Units (11061000) 

Completed 

46009 FS RD 250 Berm Replacement Three Rivers Ranger District (11062112) Completed 

46108 FS Rd. 2050110 (O Brien Creek Road) Reciprocal 

Rights-of-Way Exchanges 

Republic Ranger District (11062104) Completed 

46911 Goat Creek Restoration Project Methow Valley Ranger District (11061704) Completed 

44148 Granite Culvert Replacement Whitman Ranger District (11061631) Completed 

46643 Hard Creek Bridge Replacement Mt. Baker Ranger District (11060501) Completed 

46425 Hat Point Road Thinning Project Hells Canyon NRA (11061604) Completed 

46410 Hebo 2015 Non-Key Road Maintenance Tree Removal Hebo Ranger District (11061201) Completed 

47405 Hebo Pre-commercial Thin Project Hebo Ranger District (11061201) Completed 

41362 Herren Commercial Thin Heppner Ranger District (11061402) Completed 

47453 Humbug Flats Trail #3336 Reroute Detroit Ranger District (11061804) Completed 

44131 Instream Log Placement on Lewis River and Little 

Creek 

Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument (11060301) Completed 

45270 Issuance of Priority Use Outfitter and Guiding Special Use Permits Willamette National Forest All Units 

(11061800) 

Completed 

46655 Karamip Rd Plowing Permit Republic Ranger District (11062104) Completed 

46054 Knapp Water Diversion Restoration: Indian Ford 

Creek 

Sisters Ranger District (11060105) Completed 

41834 Knecht FLPMA Forest Road Specia Use Permit Sullivan Lake Ranger District (11062105) Completed 

41833 Knecht Water System Special Use Permit Sullivan Lake Ranger District (11062105) Completed 

41262 Ladd Canyon TSI and RMEF Elk Habitat Enhancement Project La Grande Ranger District (11061606) Completed 

45932 Lady Creek Water System Replacement Zigzag Ranger District (11060609) Completed 

45327 Lake of the Woods ODOT Highway Maintenance Station Klamath Ranger District (11060213) Completed 

46537 Lake Sutherland Water District Permit Reissuance Pacific Ranger District South (11060903) Completed 

46010 Lambert Creek Restoration Republic Ranger District (11062104) Completed 

44055 Langdon Lake Water Cooperative Permit Renewal Walla Walla Ranger District (11061406) Completed 

47108 Legendary Mining Plan of Operations Emigrant Creek Ranger District 

(11060402) 

Completed 

45524 Liberty Mountain Owner’s Association Road Use Permit Cle Elum Ranger District (11061703) Completed 

44926 Lost Driveway Hazard Fuels Reduction Methow Valley Ranger District (11061704) Completed 

45633 McKay Creek Floodplain Habitat Improvement 

Project 

Ochoco National Forest All Units 

(11060700) 

Completed 

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Project 

No. Project Name Lead Management Unit Overall NEPA Process Status 

40864 Meadow Enhancement Detroit Ranger District (11061804) Completed 

46780 Meadow Lakes Western White Pine Blister Rust 

Pruning 

Sisters Ranger District (11060105) Completed 

46747 Meissner Nordic Trail Reroute Bend/Fort Rock Ranger District 

(11060101) 

Completed 

46560 Metolius Windigo Trail Reconstruction Sisters Ranger District (11060105) Completed 

46079 Microwave Project Naches Ranger District (11061708) Completed 

46199 Middle Fork Trail Improvements Project Middle Fork Ranger District (11061810) Completed 

46175 Midstate Finley Butte Road Project Bend/Fort Rock Ranger District 

(11060101) 

Completed 

46292 Moose Creek and Quartzville Dispersed Sites Project Sweet Home Ranger District (11061803) Completed 

46752 Mountain Top PCT and Research Project Bend/Fort Rock Ranger District 

(11060101) 

Completed 

46751 Mrazek Trail Reroute (Post Two Bulls) Bend/Fort Rock Ranger District 

(11060101) 

Completed 

44476 MRRS Thin Project McKenzie River Ranger District 

(11061801) 

Completed 

44996 Mt. Bachelor Mountain Bike Trails Bend/Fort Rock Ranger District 

(11060101) 

Completed 

46419 Mt. Bachelor Power Line Special Use Permit Reissuance Bend/Fort Rock Ranger District 

(11060101) 

Completed 

47146 Mt. Bachelor Small Projects Bend/Fort Rock Ranger District 

(11060101) 

Completed 

43950 Muskee Thin McKenzie River Ranger District 

(11061801) 

Completed 

43994 Natapoc Communication Site Improvements CE Wenatchee River Ranger District 

(11061707) 

Completed 

46528 Odell Butte Communication Site Lease Renewals Deschutes National Forest All Units 

(11060100) 

Completed 

46165 Odell Lake Resort Permit Renewal Crescent Ranger District (11060102) Completed 

47015 OHV Trail 46 Reroute McKenzie River Ranger District 

(11061801) 

Completed 

43685 Okanogan PUD Underground Powerline Extension Methow Valley Ranger District (11061704) Completed 

47049 Onion Mountain Fire Salvage Wild Rivers Ranger District (11061022) Completed 

44091 Oregon Department of Transportation Storage Area 

Permit Renewal 

Walla Walla Ranger District (11061406) Completed 

46921 Oregon Department of Transportation Temporary DeIcer Containment Area Prairie City Ranger District (11060404) Completed 

45772 ‘‘Oregon Water Resources Department Stream Gauge 

Decommissioning and Relocation Project’’ 

Bend/Fort Rock Ranger District 

(11060101) 

Completed 

47496 OTEC Special Use Permit Amendment, Buried Power 

Line Installation 

Whitman Ranger District (11061631) Completed 

46600 OTEC Starkey Powerline Relocation Special Use Permit La Grande Ranger District (11061606) Completed 

42575 PacifiCorp Gold Hill Repeater Naches Ranger District (11061708) Completed 

45049 PacifiCorp Power Line Special Use Re-Authorization Siskiyou Mountains Ranger District 

(11061020) 

Completed 

46851 Peggy Creek Disposal Site Expansion Willamette National Forest All Units 

(11061800) 

Completed 

46390 Peshastin Creek Culvert Replacement Project Wenatchee River Ranger District 

(11061707) 

Completed 

47334 Pine Telephone System Water Gulch Fiber Optic line Whitman Ranger District (11061631) Completed 

44078 Pinical Vegetation Management Project Walla Walla Ranger District (11061406) Completed 

42351 Pioneer Bridle Trail CE Zigzag Ranger District (11060609) Completed 

46307 Ponderosa Mountain Men, Kokanee Power of Oregon, 

and Sporthill Special Use Permit Renewals 

Deschutes National Forest All Units 

(11060100) 

Completed 

47133 Portland General Electric (PGE) Buried Line Replacement near Summit Ski Area CE Zigzag Ranger District (11060609) Completed 

47135 Portland General Electric (PGE) Regulator Replacement at Mt. Hood Meadows Ski Area CE Mt. Hood National Forest All Units 

(11060600) 

Completed 

46645 Private Driveway Easement Mt. Baker Ranger District (11060501) Completed 

46905 Qwest dba CenturyLink Foundation Repair—Antelope Communications Site Bend/Fort Rock Ranger District 

(11060101) 

Completed 

45738 Qwest dba CenturyLink QC Wampus Butte Fiber 

Optic Line 

Bend/Fort Rock Ranger District 

(11060101) 

Completed 

46428 Re-route of Road 2041 Sweet Home Ranger District (11061803) Completed 

43855 Recreation Special Use Permits Reissuances 2014 Bend/Fort Rock Ranger District 

(11060101) 

Completed 

45746 Revised L Street Conveyance Rogue River-Siskiyou National Forest All 

Units (11061000) 

Completed 

42410 Sandy River Trail Reconstruction Mt. Hood National Forest All Units 

(11060600) 

Completed 

47110 Sawtooth Wheel Track Restoration Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument (11060301) Completed 

46189 Scott Creek Cabin Septic Repair McKenzie River Ranger District 

(11061801) 

Completed 

44887 Seattle City Light PIT Project Newport Ranger District (11062103) Completed 

46590 Shelter Cove Resort Permit Renewal Crescent Ranger District (11060102) Completed 

46777 Shuttle permits—Rogue and Chetco Rivers Gold Beach Ranger District (11061026) Completed 

46854 Skibowl Mountain Bike Trail Addition Zigzag Ranger District (11060609) Completed 

46947 Skookum Campground Bridges Middle Fork Ranger District (11061810) Completed 

45238 Special Use Authorization Renewal 2014 Hebo Ranger District (11061201) Completed 

41544 Str8 Thinning Restoration Detroit Ranger District (11061804) Completed 

42123 Sulphur Creek Campground Restoration Darrington Ranger District (11060502) Completed 

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Project 

No. Project Name Lead Management Unit Overall NEPA Process Status 

46903 Summit Prairie Pre-Commercial Thinning Prairie City Ranger District (11060404) Completed 

48224 Sunflower Planting Umatilla National Forest All Units 

(11061400) 

Completed 

47522 Swakane Canyon Fault Investigation Entiat Ranger District (11061705) Completed 

46926 Table Mountain Tree Planting Cle Elum Ranger District (11061703) Completed 

46802 TDS Fiber Optic Line Installation VZW Bend/Fort Rock Ranger District 

(11060101) 

Completed 

46959 Three Fingers Lookout Maintenance Darrington Ranger District (11060502) Completed 

43862 Threemile Creek Bull Trout Restoration Klamath Ranger District (11060213) Completed 

46653 Tilly Jane Hazardous Fuels Reduction Hood River Ranger District (11060606) Completed 

46531 Tollgate Fiber Optic Line Replacement Sisters Ranger District (11060105) Completed 

46198 Tombstone Commercial Thinning Project North Fork John Day Ranger District 

(11061405) 

Completed 

45456 TWC Corp. Temporary Access Routes Lakeview Ranger District (11060202) Completed 

44627 Twenty-Five Mile Project Chelan Ranger District (11061702) Completed 

44398 Twentyeight Mile Creek Steelhead Acclimation Pond 

Special Use Permit 

White River Ranger District (11060507) Completed 

46333 Two Bulls Fire Reforestation Bend/Fort Rock Ranger District 

(11060101) 

Completed 

45107 Two Bulls Timber Salvage Project Bend/Fort Rock Ranger District 

(11060101) 

Completed 

46515 University of Washington Rain Gauge Permit Olympic National Forest All Units 

(11060900) 

Completed 

45683 Upper Deschutes Riparian Restoration Bend/Fort Rock Ranger District 

(11060101) 

Completed 

46337 USFWS Cabin—Septic and Restroom Addition Klamath Ranger District (11060213) Completed 

47004 Verbenone Beetle Anti-Aggregant Application Malheur National Forest All Units 

(11060400) 

Completed 

44553 Verizon Lease Renewal Antelope Communication Site Bend/Fort Rock Ranger District 

(11060101) 

Completed 

44552 Verizon Lease Renewal Improvements at Spring 

River Communications Site 

Bend/Fort Rock Ranger District 

(11060101) 

Completed 

47048 Vista Towers Communications Facility at Sugar Pine 

Butte 

Bend/Fort Rock Ranger District 

(11060101) 

Completed 

46527 Walker Mountain Communication Site Communication Use Lease Renewals Deschutes National Forest All Units 

(11060100) 

Completed 

43988 Wallowa Mountains Mechanical Fuels Piling Project Wallowa Valley Ranger District 

(11061602) 

Completed 

37259 Weden Creek Trail Flood Repairs Darrington Ranger District (11060502) Completed 

44837 Wenatchee-Chiwawa Irrigation Ditch Weir Replacement CE Wenatchee River Ranger District 

(11061707) 

Completed 

46938 Westfir Water Intake Project Middle Fork Ranger District (11061810) Completed 

47077 Weyco Skyko-Foss Road Easement Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest All 

Units (11060500) 

Completed 

31043 White Chuck Bench Trail Repair and Reconstruction Darrington Ranger District (11060502) Completed 

43200 Whitman Range Improvement Project Wallowa-Whitman National Forest All 

Units (11061600) 

Completed 

46384 Wildlife Habitat Enhancement and Restoration 

Projects 2015 

McKenzie River Ranger District 

(11061801) 

Completed 

45333 ZZZ Reforestation Project Bend/Fort Rock Ranger District 

(11060101) 

Completed 

Region: R8—Southern Region (1108) 

Decision Doc Type: DM 

NEPA Decision Signed Date Range: 10/01/2014 through 09/30/2015 

Project Simple Format 

Projects Found: 208 

45631 2014 Forest Wide Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Habitat 

Improvement Project 

National Forests In Florida All Units 

(11080500) 

Completed 

45774 2014 Lake Dorr Watershed Restoration Seminole Ranger District (11080505) Completed 

47669 2015 Buncombe Horse Trail and Enoree Passage of 

the Palmetto Trail Relocation Work. 

Enoree Ranger District (11081201) Completed 

46785 2015 Gravel Pit Illegal Trail Reclamation C122 & 

C125 

Calcasieu Ranger District (11080602) Completed 

46860 2015 Mena Oden Farm Bill Thinning Mena Ranger District (11080907) Completed 

45829 2015 Shoal Creek Ranger District Midstory Removal Shoal Creek Ranger District (11080105) Completed 

45848 2015 Siviculture Activities Mena Ranger District (11080907) Completed 

46456 2015 WHI Midstory Jessieville Ranger District (11080905) Completed 

47037 Alpine Unauthorized OHV Trail Closure Project Stearns Ranger District (11080216) Completed 

45525 Alta Mesa Raven Forest #4 Well Sam Houston Ranger District (11081304) Completed 

46924 Amendment of Recreation Residence Permit STF0065 St. Francis Ranger District (11081007) Completed 

45586 Amendment to Recreation Residence Permit STF0124 St. Francis Ranger District (11081007) Completed 

46029 Amendment to Singing River Power Ass. Special Use 

Permit 

Chickasawhay Ranger District (11080705) Completed 

47076 American Competitive Trail Horse Assoc. Event Conasauga Ranger District (11080301) Completed 

45901 AP Fiscal Year 2015 Controlled Burning Andrew Pickens Ranger District 

(11081202) 

Completed 

45489 Appalachian Trail Relocation at Swim Bald Cheoah Ranger District (11081102) Completed 

47461 Arkansas Forestry Commission—Amend existing Permit Jessieville Ranger District (11080905) Completed 

47472 Arkansas Game & Fish Permit Renewal for Communication Site Jessieville Ranger District (11080905) Completed 

47478 Arkansas State Police Communication Site Permit 

Renewal 

Jessieville Ranger District (11080905) Completed 

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Project 

No. Project Name Lead Management Unit Overall NEPA Process Status 

45655 Arkansas Traveler 100 Mile Run Jessieville Ranger District (11080905) Completed 

45492 Aska Trail Improvements Blueridge Ranger District (11080304) Completed 

46923 Atlantic Coast Pipeline Alternate Routes Survey Permit George Washington and Jefferson National 

Forest All Units (11080800) 

Completed 

46038 Atlantic Coast Pipeline, LLC Surveys Permit George Washington and Jefferson National 

Forest All Units (11080800) 

Completed 

47258 Avery Access Request Homochitto Ranger District (11080704) Completed 

45509 Bankhead Compartment 30 Midstory Removal 

Project 

Bankhead Ranger District (11080101) Completed 

43990 Bay Springs Telephone Company Bienville Ranger District (11080701) Completed 

46415 BDR Family Partnership Ltd. Private Road Special 

Use Permit 

Angelina Ranger District (11081301) Completed 

46153 Berkeley Electric Co-op Permit Re-issuance Francis Marion Ranger District (11081205) Completed 

45299 Berrytown Road Relocation Homochitto Ranger District (11080704) Completed 

47117 Big Ivy Trail Maintenance Appalachian Ranger District (11081108) Completed 

42311 Big Ridge Prescribed Burn Tellico Ranger District (11080404) Completed 

44875 Black Jack Oil HOM0026 permit renewal Homochitto Ranger District (11080704) Completed 

47497 Bonnerdale Burn CE Womble Ranger District (11080910) Completed 

45628 Broad River Riparian Wetland Restoration Project Francis Marion and Sumter National Forest All Units (11081200) Completed 

45624 Broad River Riparian Wetlands Project Francis Marion and Sumter National Forest All Units (11081200) Completed 

45817 Brushy Mountain, Compartment 645, Middle North 

Fork, and Potato Hill Prescribed Burns 

Jessieville Ranger District (11080905) Completed 

45482 Buck Creek Watershed Improvement Project Tusquittee Ranger District (11081109) Completed 

46222 Caseyville Road Bridge Replacement Homochitto Ranger District (11080704) Completed 

47510 Cat35 Amendment #9 AT&T Fiber Optic Upgrade to 

CCA 

Winn Ranger District (11080604) Completed 

47063 Catahoula Ranger District TSI by Hand Tools FY 

2015 

Kisatchie National Forest All Units 

(11080600) 

Completed 

36081 Catawba Falls Phase II: Trail Improvements & Dam 

Removal 

Grandfather Ranger District (11081105) Completed 

46656 Cedar Creek Timber Stand Improvement Glenwood and Pedlar Ranger Districts 

(11080813) 

Completed 

45192 Cherokee Mountain (midstory) Watauga Ranger District (11080406) Completed 

44170 Chestnut Run Vegetation Project Glenwood and Pedlar Ranger Districts 

(11080813) 

Completed 

46298 China Creek Trail Relocation National Forests In North Carolina All 

Units (11081100) 

Completed 

45890 Citico Realty Company Special Use Authorization Renewal Stearns Ranger District (11080216) Completed 

45162 City of Havelock, Water Well Pad Expansion Croatan Ranger District (11081103) Completed 

42853 Coast EPA—Hwy. 15 Tie-Line De Soto Ranger District (11080702) Completed 

41020 Columbia Gas Pipeline Replacement—Little Cedar 

Creek 

Glenwood and Pedlar Ranger Districts 

(11080813) 

Completed 

45693 Commercial Filming/Wallis Visuals LLC (Michael 

Walters) FY2014 

Talladega Ranger District (11080106) Completed 

45216 Communications Site Hazardous Fuels Reduction. Conasauga Ranger District (11080301) Completed 

45122 Compartment 30 Wildlife Habitat Improvement 

Project 

Sam Houston Ranger District (11081304) Completed 

46117 Currahee Mountain Communications Site Chattooga River Ranger District 

(11080306) 

Completed 

46133 Currahee Mountain Communications Site SUP Chattooga River Ranger District 

(11080306) 

Completed 

46460 Delaney Flat Boston Mountain Ranger District 

(11081005) 

Completed 

46325 Delta Tract Grassland Prescribed Burning Project on 

the Enoree Ranger District 

Enoree Ranger District (11081201) Completed 

46892 Dicks Creek Dispersed Camping Improvements Blueridge Ranger District (11080304) Completed 

35036 Disposal of the Toccoa Work Center Complex in Blue 

Ridge, GA 

Blueridge Ranger District (11080304) Completed 

45922 District-wide Trail Maintenance Chattooga River Ranger District 

(11080306) 

Completed 

47445 Ditch Bay Habitat Improvement Project Wakulla Ranger District (11080506) Completed 

44957 Divide Forest Health Thinning Project. Conasauga Ranger District (11080301) Completed 

47479 Driveway Authorization—E Crumpton Jessieville Ranger District (11080905) Completed 

45958 Dry Run Stream Restoration Mount Rogers National Recreation Area 

(11080814) 

Completed 

47393 Duke Energy Amendment 6, Pole Replacements on 

CPS and JA Lines. 

Wakulla Ranger District (11080506) Completed 

45555 Duke Energy JA Line pole replacements and culvert 

repairs 

Wakulla Ranger District (11080506) Completed 

45433 Dwight Collett Special Use Authorization Redbird Ranger District (11080217) Completed 

45784 Eagle Nest Electric Power line Installation Calcasieu Ranger District (11080602) Completed 

45686 East Fork Burn Block Cold Springs Ranger District (11080903) Completed 

45519 Eastex Telephone Co-Op Inc. SUP Amendment: 

Butch Arthur Rd. & FM 945 

Sam Houston Ranger District (11081304) Completed 

47412 Elkins Lake Wildland Urban Interface Project Sam Houston Ranger District (11081304) Completed 

46495 Emerald Ash Borer Research Cherokee National Forest All Units 

(11080400) 

Completed 

47382 Entergy Powerline Special Use Permit Amendment1 Magazine Mountain Ranger District 

(11081006) 

Completed 

47391 Erosion Control Project Womble Ranger District (11080910) Completed 

47553 Fall 2015 Recreation Events. Blueridge Ranger District (11080304) Completed 

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No. Project Name Lead Management Unit Overall NEPA Process Status 

45825 Farnor Land Exchange Unaka Ranger District (11080405) Completed 

42164 Fishers Chapel Project Conasauga Ranger District (11080301) Completed 

46773 Fitness Trail Enoree Ranger District (11081201) Completed 

46907 FL Gas Ground Bed Project Wakulla Ranger District (11080506) Completed 

27391 Flat Mountain Road, SR 1544, NCDOT Project Nantahala Ranger District (11081111) Completed 

44197 Flatwoods Job Corps Conservation Center Municipal 

Sewer Line 

George Washington and Jefferson National 

Forest All Units (11080800) 

Completed 

47217 Flintlock Power line Installation Uwharrie Ranger District (11081110) Completed 

45477 Franklin Amateur Radio Tower at Cowee Bald National Forests In North Carolina All 

Units (11081100) 

Completed 

46779 Full Moon 25K and 50K Run Event Winona Ranger District (11080911) Completed 

47278 FY 2015 Road Stream Crossing Improvement 

Projects 

Blueridge Ranger District (11080304) Completed 

45494 FY14 Trail Re-routes Blueridge Ranger District (11080304) Completed 

45267 FY15 Dormant Season Prescribed Burn Planning 

Project 

Blueridge Ranger District (11080304) Completed 

44937 FY15 Prescribed Burning Project Conasauga Ranger District (11080301) Completed 

45929 FY15 Uwharrie Prescribed Burn Project Uwharrie Ranger District (11081110) Completed 

45997 FY15 Womble Trail Relocation Womble Ranger District (11080910) Completed 

45441 FY 2015–2016 Oak Enhancement and Pre-commercial thinning treatment Project Eastern Divide Ranger District (11080811) Completed 

45968 Georgia aster mastication project Enoree Ranger District (11081201) Completed 

45115 GM Water Supply Corp. Water Pipeline Right-of-Way 

Special Use Permit Reissuance 

Sabine Ranger District (11081307) Completed 

42287 Granville Freeman Access Bienville Ranger District (11080701) Completed 

43932 Green Mountain Project Watauga Ranger District (11080406) Completed 

46606 Hartford Waterline SUP Unaka Ranger District (11080405) Completed 

47353 Hayworth 4x4 Tours Special Use Permit Unaka Ranger District (11080405) Completed 

45692 High Noon Entertainment Special Use Permit Talladega Ranger District (11080106) Completed 

45584 Highland Telephone Cooperative Special Use Authorization Stearns Ranger District (11080216) Completed 

44664 Huff Hollow, Glade Mountain, and Crawfish Prescribed Burns Mount Rogers National Recreation Area 

(11080814) 

Completed 

45630 Hughes and Coxs Creek Gully Restoration Project Francis Marion and Sumter National Forest All Units (11081200) Completed 

45900 Jake Bull New Trail Construction Blueridge Ranger District (11080304) Completed 

45077 Johnson Tract Proposed Research Thinning C–58 Calcasieu Ranger District (11080602) Completed 

45653 Junior Murders Special Use Reauthorization Jessieville Ranger District (11080905) Completed 

46742 Justin Hatton Private Road Special Use Permit Angelina Ranger District (11081301) Completed 

46339 Katy Branch Rx (Admin Change) Cherokee National Forest All Units 

(11080400) 

Completed 

47734 Kentucky Utilities Permit Activity—Mt. Victory 

Power Transmission Tower Replacement 

London Ranger District (11080214) Completed 

44962 Keown Falls Trail Reroute Conasauga Ranger District (11080301) Completed 

47188 Kyle Welch Access Bienville Ranger District (11080701) Completed 

46018 Lake Resort Special Use Womble Ranger District (11080910) Completed 

46418 Lanelle Johnsey Private Road Special Use Permit 

project 

Sabine Ranger District (11081307) Completed 

46154 Laura Lynn and Herbert Tyler Orvin Easement Francis Marion Ranger District (11081205) Completed 

44786 Lee Forest Stand Improvement Lee Ranger District (11080804) Completed 

46968 Linda Burnett Private Road and Powerline Project Angelina Ranger District (11081301) Completed 

45196 Lower Higgin’s Creek Access/Trailhead Parking Watauga Ranger District (11080406) Completed 

47035 Manual and Mechanical Vegetation Treatments in 

the Indian Creek Project Area 

Enoree Ranger District (11081201) Completed 

42014 Marie Ybarra Private Road Special Use Permit Sabine Ranger District (11081307) Completed 

45248 Massanutten, Tuscarora—Bear Wallow Trails Lee Ranger District (11080804) Completed 

45699 Maumelle River Prescribed Burn Jessieville Ranger District (11080905) Completed 

46252 McDowell Private Road Special Use Permit Womble Ranger District (11080910) Completed 

45592 MCWA— White Oak Prescribe Burn Kiamichi Ranger District (11080906) Completed 

45496 Morganton Point Electric Expansion Blueridge Ranger District (11080304) Completed 

46573 Morton 3D Seismic Proposal Bienville Ranger District (11080701) Completed 

46185 Mountain Valley Pipeline, LLC Surveys Permit George Washington and Jefferson National 

Forest All Units (11080800) 

Completed 

47017 National Environmental Observatory Network 

(NEON) Special Use Permit—Amendment #1 

Oakmulgee Ranger District (11080104) Completed 

47400 National Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System 

(MAFFS) Training Exercise 

Chattooga River Ranger District 

(11080306) 

Completed 

47211 Native Species Restoration Uwharrie Ranger District (11081110) Completed 

46981 NATRC Trail Ride Kisatchie Ranger District (11080603) Completed 

40284 NCDOT Bridge #237/SR 1362 Grandfather Ranger District (11081105) Completed 

40287 NCDOT Bridge #84/SR1349 Appalachian Ranger District (11081108) Completed 

44999 Network USA Fiber Optic Cable Permit Winn Ranger District (11080604) Completed 

45125 NFSR 601 Culvert Talladega Ranger District (11080106) Completed 

46195 North New Road Run Prescribed Burn George Washington and Jefferson National 

Forest All Units (11080800) 

Completed 

46216 North Zone Reforestation—Marshall Run and Slate 

Rock 

George Washington and Jefferson National 

Forest All Units (11080800) 

Completed 

45191 Otherside Forest Health Project Watauga Ranger District (11080406) Completed 

45189 Otherside Rx Burn Watauga Ranger District (11080406) Completed 

46017 Ouachita Outfitter Inc. Special Use Permit Womble Ranger District (11080910) Completed 

38211 Owl Creek Trail System—Re-route Bankhead Ranger District (11080101) Completed 

21434 Pilot Ridge Road, SR 1515, NCDOT Project Grandfather Ranger District (11081105) Completed 

45667 Polk County Communications Tower Ocoee Ranger District (11080403) Completed 

47118 Poplar Boat Launch Improvements Appalachian Ranger District (11081108) Completed 

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Project 

No. Project Name Lead Management Unit Overall NEPA Process Status 

46281 Porter Creek Prescribed Burning Fourche Ranger District (11080904) Completed 

47091 Proposed Changes on Oconee Ranger District Motor 

Vehicle Use Map. 

Oconee Ranger District (11080308) Completed 

45272 PRTC Fiber Optic Line Replacement 2014 London Ranger District (11080214) Completed 

46756 Pruet Production Oil Wells Conecuh Ranger District (11080103) Completed 

40698 Ratcliff Lake Dam repair Davy Crockett Ranger District (11081303) Completed 

44602 Rebecca and Page Cline Special Use Authorization Stearns Ranger District (11080216) Completed 

47601 Reissuance of Special Use Permit to Gulf South Pipeline Co. De Soto Ranger District (11080702) Completed 

44785 Relocation of North Mtn Trail Lee Ranger District (11080804) Completed 

47056 Renewal of Matthew Rhea Weir Special Use Permit National Forests In North Carolina All 

Units (11081100) 

Completed 

45197 Rich Mountain Watauga Ranger District (11080406) Completed 

45193 Rock Creek Camp Store Unaka Ranger District (11080405) Completed 

46461 Ruby Project Boston Mountain Ranger District 

(11081005) 

Completed 

47214 Rudolph Abandoned Mine Closure Uwharrie Ranger District (11081110) Completed 

46019 Singleton Easement Womble Ranger District (11080910) Completed 

43378 Slope Stabilization on I–40, NCDOT Project National Forests In North Carolina All 

Units (11081100) 

Completed 

47354 Smokey Mountain Adventures 4x4 Tours Special Use 

Project 

Unaka Ranger District (11080405) Completed 

45399 Soil and Water Watershed Restoration Projects— 

Charlie’s Creek/Midway Road 

Chattooga River Ranger District 

(11080306) 

Completed 

46944 Soldier Bay Fuel Reduction Project National Forests In Florida All Units 

(11080500) 

Completed 

45016 Southwestern Bell Telephone Company Special Use 

Permit Reissuance 

Angelina Ranger District (11081301) Completed 

47359 Southwestern Bell Telephone Company Special Use 

Permit Reissuance 

Sabine Ranger District (11081307) Completed 

44682 Special Use Amendment for AT&T inground fiber 

optic cable 

Chickasawhay Ranger District (11080705) Completed 

44667 Special Use Authorization Renewal for Existing Hayfields on the Mount Rogers NRA Mount Rogers National Recreation Area 

(11080814) 

Completed 

44680 Special Use Road (Breland) Chickasawhay Ranger District (11080705) Completed 

43345 Special Use Road (McCardle) Chickasawhay Ranger District (11080705) Completed 

43346 Special Use Road (Nicholson) Chickasawhay Ranger District (11080705) Completed 

47180 Special Use Road (Palmer) Chickasawhay Ranger District (11080705) Completed 

44022 Special Use Road (Perry) Chickasawhay Ranger District (11080705) Completed 

46190 Spring/Summer BRRD Recreation Events Blueridge Ranger District (11080304) Completed 

46917 Stroud Petroleum (Barlow-USA 25–3 #1, Graves-USA 

25–12 #1) 

Homochitto Ranger District (11080704) Completed 

46094 Stroud Petroleum 25–3 #3 Homochitto Ranger District (11080704) Completed 

46694 Stuart Lake Fish Habitat Enhancement Catahoula Ranger District (11080601) Completed 

46331 Sullivan Co Communication Tower Watauga Ranger District (11080406) Completed 

46840 Summer Recreation Events CE Blueridge Ranger District (11080304) Completed 

46601 Swamp Chestnut Oak Orchard Mastication Francis Marion Ranger District (11081205) Completed 

46122 Talquin Electric Cooperative, INC. State road 20 

power-line realignment and upgrade. 

Apalachicola Ranger District (11080501) Completed 

45553 Talquin Electric Cooperative, INC. Springhill New 

Underground Line Amendment #17 WAK25 

Wakulla Ranger District (11080506) Completed 

46863 TASS (Tellico Area Service System) water lines Tellico Ranger District (11080404) In Progress 

44821 Telepak Networks Fiber Optic Cable Along Hwy. 49 

North 

De Soto Ranger District (11080702) Completed 

45893 Thunder Rock 100 Ocoee Ranger District (11080403) Completed 

45353 Tiak Plantation Thinnings Project (HFRA) Kiamichi Ranger District (11080906) Completed 

43178 Todd Lake Dam Rehabilitation North River Ranger District (11080802) Completed 

41411 Towee Falls Baptist Church Land Exchange Tellico Ranger District (11080404) Completed 

45896 Tributary to South Toe River Stream Restoration 

Project 

National Forests In North Carolina All 

Units (11081100) 

Completed 

45247 Tuscarora-Hawk Trail Lee Ranger District (11080804) Completed 

46140 Tuskegee NF Rxburning Tuskegee Ranger District (11080107) Completed 

45105 Unauthorized Road Obliteration Long Cane Ranger District (11081203) Completed 

46036 Upper Passage Stream Habitat Enhancement George Washington and Jefferson National 

Forest All Units (11080800) 

Completed 

46740 Upper West Armuchee Creek Watershed—Soil and 

Water Improvement Project—CE 

Conasauga Ranger District (11080301) Completed 

46984 US Army Corp of Engineers soil sample Kisatchie Ranger District (11080603) Completed 

46985 Vietnam Tactical Reenactment Kisatchie Ranger District (11080603) Completed 

45818 West Bear Den, Vanderslice South, and Compartment 612 Jessieville Ranger District (11080905) Completed 

46717 Western Carolina Rural Telephone Cooperative Francis Marion and Sumter National Forest All Units (11081200) Completed 

42320 Wildcat Prescribed Burn Tellico Ranger District (11080404) Completed 

45071 Wildlife Habitat Improvement Prescribed Burning in 

Compartments 11, 12, 30, and 36. 

Sam Houston Ranger District (11081304) Completed 

45043 Wildlife Habitat Improvement Prescribed Burning in 

Compartments 18, 19, and 20. 

Sam Houston Ranger District (11081304) Completed 

44998 Wildlife Habitat Improvement Prescribed Burning in 

Compartments 38, 44, 54, and 104 

Sam Houston Ranger District (11081304) Completed 

45880 Wildlife Management Activities Long Cane Ranger District (11081203) Completed 

46239 Wildlife Management Activities II Long Cane Ranger District (11081203) Completed 

45194 William’s Mine Unaka Ranger District (11080405) Completed 

45656 Williams Junction VFD Communication Site Jessieville Ranger District (11080905) Completed 

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Project 

No. Project Name Lead Management Unit Overall NEPA Process Status 

47456 Windstream permit amendment Jessieville Ranger District (11080905) Completed 

46743 Wolf Laurel AT Relo Project Cherokee National Forest All Units 

(11080400) 

Completed 

45536 XTO Energy Inc.—Loa #1HB Gas Pipeline Special 

Use Permit Amendment 

Sabine Ranger District (11081307) Completed 

46899 XTO Energy Inc. Hawks Gas Pipeline Special Use 

Permit Amendment 

Angelina Ranger District (11081301) Completed 

47498 XTO Energy Inc. Maranon #H1 and Orinoco #B1 Gas 

Wells 

Sabine Ranger District (11081307) Completed 

45560 XTO Energy Inc. Ob #H1 Access Road and Gas Pipeline Special Use Permit Sabine Ranger District (11081307) Completed 

44471 XTO Energy, Inc.—La Plata #1H Gas Well, Pipeline, 

and Access Road 

Sabine Ranger District (11081307) Completed 

43983 XTO Energy, Inc.—Tiber #1H Gas Well, Pipeline, and 

Access Road 

Sabine Ranger District (11081307) Completed 

Region: R9—Eastern Region (1109) 

Decision Doc Type: DM 

NEPA Decision Signed Date Range: 10/01/2014 through 09/30/2015 

Project Simple Format 

Projects Found: 290 

46110 05—Chamberlain Forest Service Road Use Mio Ranger District (11090405) Completed 

46111 05 Rec Event—Oscoda County Riverfest Event Mio Ranger District (11090405) Completed 

47386 06 Recreation Event—Black Bear Bicycle Tour Huron Shores Ranger District (11090406) Completed 

47503 10 Year Bear Guide Permit, Huotari Blackduck Ranger District (11090301) Completed 

43548 2014 Bergland and Ontonagon Special Use Reissues Ottawa National Forest All Units 

(11090700) 

Completed 

45944 2014 Great Divide Access Requests Great Divide Ranger District (11091302) Completed 

44006 2014 LaCroix Reissues LaCroix Ranger District (11090906) Completed 

43634 2014 North Zone Special Use Permits Ottawa National Forest All Units 

(11090700) 

Completed 

45538 2014 Red Pine Salvage Chequamegon/Nicolet National Forest All 

Units (11091300) 

Completed 

45257 2014 Reissuance of Special use permits: Eagle RiverFlorence Eagle River-Florence Ranger District 

(11091303) 

Completed 

45256 2014 Reissuance of Special Use Permits: LakewoodLaona Lakewood-Laona Ranger District 

(11091304) 

Completed 

47429 2015 Lakewood-Laona Snowmobile Trail Widening 

Project 

Lakewood-Laona Ranger District 

(11091304) 

Completed 

46369 2015 Pine River Bank Stabilization Project Huron Shores Ranger District (11090406) Completed 

44808 2015 Pipeline Rehabilitation Erosion Control Site 2 Lakewood-Laona Ranger District 

(11091304) 

Completed 

45935 2015 Road-Stream Crossing Repair and Maintenance Great Divide Ranger District (11091302) Completed 

46834 2015 Strecok Lakewood-Laona Ranger District 

(11091304) 

Completed 

47045 2015 WPS Electric Utility Project—Knapp Road and 

WI 70. 

Eagle River-Florence Ranger District 

(11091303) 

Completed 

47154 2015 WPS Electric Utility Project—Pine Lake Road/ 

Sawyer Lake Road, WI 52 

Lakewood-Laona Ranger District 

(11091304) 

Completed 

46072 9 Day Trail Ride Recreation Event Hidden Springs Ranger District 

(11090804) 

Completed 

44106 Air Force—PFOA/PFOS Remediation Project Huron Shores Ranger District (11090406) Completed 

46571 Alcona Canoe Livery Special Use Authorization Renewal for Storage Yard Permit Huron Shores Ranger District (11090406) Completed 

44879 Alger Delta Cable Installation Hiawatha National Forest All Units 

(11091000) 

Completed 

47492 Allotment Establishment for E11 Tract Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie All 

Units (11091500) 

Completed 

46131 Alvwood II Woodcock Habitat Improvement Project Blackduck Ranger District (11090301) Completed 

45807 Ameritech/SBC Global Permit Renewal Hoosier National Forest All Units 

(11091200) 

Completed 

47560 AND–TRO Water, Inc. Hoosier National Forest All Units 

(11091200) 

Completed 

41627 Androscoggin Ranger District Education and 

Wellness Trail 

Androscoggin Ranger District (11092202) Completed 

46194 Atlantic Broadband (PENN) Telephone and Fiber 

Optic Special Use Permit 

Cheat Ranger District (11092101) Completed 

47198 Atlantic Coast Pipeline Alternative Route Site Survey 

Testing Special Use Permit GBR205003 Amend3 

Monongahela National Forest All Units 

(11092100) 

Completed 

45864 Atlantic Coast Pipeline Site Survey Testing Special 

Use Permit 

Monongahela National Forest All Units 

(11092100) 

Completed 

45171 Au Train Lake Lot 8 Well Replacement Munising Ranger District (11091003) Completed 

46975 Au Train Township Ballfield Special Use Permit Renewal Munising Ranger District (11091003) Completed 

45311 B.S. Road Permit Shawnee National Forest All Units 

(11090800) 

Completed 

47610 Balancing Rock Horse Trail Reroute Ironton Ranger District (11091403) Completed 

46697 Barry Conservation Camp Improvements Androscoggin Ranger District (11092202) Completed 

46225 Basswood Drive ORV Damage Restoration Project Baldwin/White Cloud Ranger District 

(11090401) 

Completed 

46433 Bayfield Electric Co-op Power Line Removal Washburn Ranger District (11091305) Completed 

45707 Becker Special Use Road Access Ava/Cassville/Willow Springs Ranger District (11090521) Completed 

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Project 

No. Project Name Lead Management Unit Overall NEPA Process Status 

45897 Bena Bike Trail Blackduck Ranger District (11090301) Completed 

45094 Big 4 Wetland Enhancement Wayne National Forest All Units 

(11091400) 

Completed 

47539 Black River North Country Trail Project Bessemer Ranger District (11090702) Completed 

46786 Blythefield Hills Baptist Church Youth Group Trip 

(Special Use Permit) 

Munising Ranger District (11091003) Completed 

47323 Bodette and Cannon Road Access Special Use Permits Project Rochester Ranger District (11092005) Completed 

44163 Bog Pond Snowmobile Trail Relocation Pemigewasset Ranger District (11092204) Completed 

46394 Bower Trout Portage Gunflint Ranger District (11090902) Completed 

45076 Bradford FY14 Special Use Renewals Bradford Ranger District (11091903) Completed 

46978 Brayton Creek/Cleveland Road stream crossing Baldwin/White Cloud Ranger District 

(11090401) 

Completed 

45805 Brian and Patricia Martin Road Permit Hoosier National Forest All Units 

(11091200) 

Completed 

43395 Brickey Slab Crossing Replacement Potosi/Fredericktown Ranger District 

(11090505) 

Completed 

46305 Brushy Hollow Water Assoc. Reissue Special Use 

Permit (POT204001) 

Potomac Ranger District (11092105) Completed 

43924 Buchanan Private Road Permit Cadillac/Manistee Ranger District 

(11090403) 

Completed 

46028 Buck Club Road Assn FR3368 Permit Deer River Ranger District (11090303) Completed 

44383 Buffalo Pike Hoosier National Forest All Units 

(11091200) 

Completed 

47196 BV Waterline Hidden Springs Ranger District 

(11090804) 

Completed 

46665 Carr Private Road Permit Baldwin/White Cloud Ranger District 

(11090401) 

Completed 

47064 Cedar Lake Shoreline Stabilization Shawnee National Forest All Units 

(11090800) 

Completed 

45249 Central Crossings Fire Department Special Use Permit Ava/Cassville/Willow Springs Ranger District (11090521) Completed 

46695 Century Link Telephone Line Blackduck Ranger District (11090301) Completed 

45978 Charles and Gaetane Watson Private Road Permit Huron Shores Ranger District (11090406) Completed 

46302 Cheat-Potomac Ranger District Multiple Recreation 

Facilities & Related Granger-Thye Concessions 

SUP 

Potomac Ranger District (11092105) Completed 

46380 Chequamegon Communications Cooperative Inc. Ino 

Tower generator project 

Washburn Ranger District (11091305) Completed 

46308 Chesapeake Media 1, LLC Huron-Manistee National Forest All Units 

(11090400) 

Completed 

43546 Chik-Wauk Proposal Gunflint Ranger District (11090902) Completed 

43670 Christensen Forest Road Special Use Permit Ottawa National Forest All Units 

(11090700) 

Completed 

45957 Cisco Lake and Nymphia Lake Road Maintenance: 

Culverts 

Washburn Ranger District (11091305) Completed 

45940 Cold-water Streams Riparian Restoration Great Divide Ranger District (11091302) Completed 

45243 Consumer’s Energy Private Road Permit Reissuance Baldwin/White Cloud Ranger District 

(11090401) 

Completed 

44986 Cottle Road ROW Special Use Permit (GAU206003). Gauley Ranger District (11092102) Completed 

45500 Cranberry Mtn Nature Center and Summit Lake Improvements Gauley Ranger District (11092102) Completed 

45936 Crystal Lake Fish Habitat Improvement Great Divide Ranger District (11091302) Completed 

46272 Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Extreme Hike Cadillac/Manistee Ranger District 

(11090403) 

Completed 

46296 Deer Creek Dam Permit Hoosier National Forest All Units 

(11091200) 

Completed 

46977 Delta County EMS Radio Repeater Install on FS 

Tower 

Hiawatha National Forest All Units 

(11091000) 

Completed 

46074 Dennison Hollow Burn Expansion Hidden Springs Ranger District 

(11090804) 

Completed 

45295 Doubtfire Salvage Lakewood-Laona Ranger District 

(11091304) 

Completed 

46335 Douglas Phelps Private Road Permit Houston/Rolla/Cedar Creek Ranger District (11090503) Completed 

40375 Dukes Snowmobile Trail Munising Ranger District (11091003) Completed 

47000 E Lake Road Association Road Permit Blackduck Ranger District (11090301) Completed 

45836 Eagle Nest Lodge Replace Cabins 4 and 6 Deer River Ranger District (11090303) Completed 

46388 Earth Treks Inc. and Wild Guyde Adventures LLC. 

Special Use Permits Reauthorization 

Potomac Ranger District (11092105) Completed 

45796 Eddington Creek Head-cut Repair Cadillac/Manistee Ranger District 

(11090403) 

Completed 

47001 Edgren Shed & Porch Project Blackduck Ranger District (11090301) Completed 

44866 Enbridge 1359 Site and Road Construction Hiawatha National Forest All Units 

(11091000) 

Completed 

44870 Enbridge 1373 Test Wells Installation Hiawatha National Forest All Units 

(11091000) 

Completed 

44213 Enbridge Integrity Dig MP 1369.9115 Rapid River Ranger District (11091001) Completed 

47434 Enervest Permit: Gum Sump, Elkins, and Bradley 

Pipelines 

Wayne National Forest All Units 

(11091400) 

Completed 

45159 Everett and Linda Anderson Special Use Permit Houston/Rolla/Cedar Creek Ranger District (11090503) Completed 

44204 Finger Lakes Runners Club Special Use Authorization Hector Ranger District (11092003) Completed 

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Project 

No. Project Name Lead Management Unit Overall NEPA Process Status 

44678 Flambeau and Dead Horse Motorized Trail Reconstruction Chequamegon/Nicolet National Forest All 

Units (11091300) 

Completed 

45937 Forest Lodge Cow Pasture Prescribed Burn Great Divide Ranger District (11091302) Completed 

42616 Forest Plan Amendment for Threatened, Endangered, 

and Sensitive Species 

Mark Twain National Forest All Units 

(11090500) 

Completed 

46068 Forest-wide Driveway Permit Reissuance White Mountain National Forest All Units 

(11092200) 

Completed 

46181 Four 10 Year Bear Guide Permits Blackduck Ranger District (11090301) Completed 

46413 Froehlich Priority Use Outfitter Guide Permit Hoosier National Forest All Units 

(11091200) 

Completed 

46549 Fun Promotions 10K & 15K Running Event Cadillac/Manistee Ranger District 

(11090403) 

Completed 

46895 FY15 Allegheny Reservoir Fish Habitat Improvement 

Project 

Allegheny National Forest All Units 

(11091900) 

Completed 

45669 Gary Purple Private Road Permit Houston/Rolla/Cedar Creek Ranger District (11090503) Completed 

45670 Gary Purple Private Road Permit Houston/Rolla/Cedar Creek Ranger District (11090503) Completed 

44622 Gunflint Mixed Trail/Road Recreation Use Project Gunflint Ranger District (11090902) Completed 

41798 Hamburg Hill Trail of Tears Enhancements Shawnee National Forest All Units 

(11090800) 

Completed 

46039 Hapgood Nature Trail Improvements Manchester Ranger District (11092002) Completed 

45309 Hardin County Main Street: Ozark Tour Hidden Springs Ranger District 

(11090804) 

Completed 

47673 Harrisville Administrative Site Conveyance Huron Shores Ranger District (11090406) Completed 

46891 Hecla Water Transmission Amendment #6 Ironton Ranger District (11091403) Completed 

45582 Hemlock Wooly Adelgid Suppression Project Hector Ranger District (11092003) Completed 

44878 Hiawatha Telephone Company Cable Installation Hiawatha National Forest All Units 

(11091000) 

Completed 

37612 High Bridge North Country Trail Reroute Cadillac/Manistee Ranger District 

(11090403) 

Completed 

46030 Highway 150 Road Widening Permit Hoosier National Forest All Units 

(11091200) 

Completed 

41620 Hoff Road Ditch Maintenance Project Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie All 

Units (11091500) 

Completed 

45835 Holt FR2308 Road Permit Deer River Ranger District (11090303) Completed 

47016 Holt Road/Thrasher Road Temporary Reroute Eagle River-Florence Ranger District 

(11091303) 

Completed 

45471 Hoosier Energy Temporary Permit Hoosier National Forest All Units 

(11091200) 

Completed 

46538 Horseback Riding Recreation Events—Mio, Harrisville and Tawas Ranger Districts Huron Shores Ranger District (11090406) Completed 

46301 Horseshoe Recreation Area Facilities and Related 

Granger-Thye Concessions Special Use Permit 

Cheat Ranger District (11092101) Completed 

45210 Howell County PWSD3 Special Use Permit Ava/Cassville/Willow Springs Ranger District (11090521) Completed 

46457 Hwy 63 CWPP Project Washburn Ranger District (11091305) Completed 

45245 Indian Kitchen Lodge Outfitter/Guide Special-Use 

Permit 

Hidden Springs Ranger District 

(11090804) 

Completed 

45172 Intercounty Electric Cooperative Association Special 

Use Permit 

Houston/Rolla/Cedar Creek Ranger District (11090503) Completed 

45100 IUOA 5 year Priority Use Outfitter/Guide Permit Hoosier National Forest All Units 

(11091200) 

Completed 

45152 J. Zabotrtsky Special Use Permit Kawishiwi Ranger District (11090905) Completed 

46894 Joel D. King Private Road Special Use Permit Huron Shores Ranger District (11090406) Completed 

46031 John Ingles Special Uses Right-of-Way Road Permit Ironton Ranger District (11091403) Completed 

44306 Jon Nichols Number 2 Special Use Road Ava/Cassville/Willow Springs Ranger District (11090521) Completed 

45949 Jump River Electric Rebuild Great Divide Ranger District (11091302) Completed 

42006 Kenyon Hollow Haying Allotment, Prescribed Burn, 

and Cedar Control Project 

Ava/Cassville/Willow Springs Ranger District (11090521) Completed 

37657 Kevin Woodward Access Proposal Gunflint Ranger District (11090902) Completed 

45745 KGM Contractors Access LaCroix Ranger District (11090906) Completed 

44208 Killington Bike Trails Rochester Ranger District (11092005) Completed 

44446 Kinderhook Horse Trail Expansion Athens Ranger District (11091401) Completed 

47071 Kinkaid Lake Shoreline Stabilization 2 Mississippi Bluffs Ranger District 

(11090802) 

Completed 

46671 Koralewsi Private Road Authorization Mio Ranger District (11090405) Completed 

45190 Lake County LAU1126–09 Laurentian Ranger District (11090901) Completed 

45475 Lake Sherwood Boat Rental Concession White Sulphur Ranger District (11092106) Completed 

46431 Lakewood Southeast Additional Burn Unit Chequamegon/Nicolet National Forest All 

Units (11091300) 

Completed 

47373 Lakewood-Laona Programmatic Salvage Chequamegon/Nicolet National Forest All 

Units (11091300) 

Completed 

41111 Lewis Hay Cultivation Permit Ironton Ranger District (11091403) Completed 

46349 Little Seeker ASL Trail Realignment Marienville Ranger District (11091902) Completed 

46767 Little Willow Access Roads Permit Medford-Park Falls Ranger District 

(11091301) 

Completed 

46534 Loda Lake Wildflower Sanctuary Boardwalk Removal 

and Replacement Project 

Baldwin/White Cloud Ranger District 

(11090401) 

Completed 

44008 Lookout Mountain Single Track Mountain Bike 

Trails 

Laurentian Ranger District (11090901) Completed 

46550 Lujenida Portage Reroute Tofte Ranger District (11090907) Completed 

47355 Lydick West TFPA Project Blackduck Ranger District (11090301) Completed 

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Project 

No. Project Name Lead Management Unit Overall NEPA Process Status 

45308 M.M. Road Permit Mississippi Bluffs Ranger District 

(11090802) 

Completed 

46709 Marciniak Private Road Special Use Permit Baldwin/White Cloud Ranger District 

(11090401) 

Completed 

41982 Marienville Wildlife Habitat Enhancement Project Marienville Ranger District (11091902) Completed 

44985 Mays Road Right-Of-Way Special Use Permit 

(GAU206002) 

Gauley Ranger District (11092102) Completed 

45776 McKean County Bat Cave Gate Bradford Ranger District (11091903) Completed 

46636 Mentor Partners Hungerford Generator Installation Baldwin/White Cloud Ranger District 

(11090401) 

Completed 

45833 Meyer FR 2153 Permit Deer River Ranger District (11090303) Completed 

43328 Michael D. Rose Private Road Special Use Permit Huron Shores Ranger District (11090406) Completed 

45470 Mill Brook Connector Snowmobile Trail Relocation Pemigewasset Ranger District (11092204) Completed 

45806 Minard Run Oil Co. Special Use Stickney Pipeline Bradford Ranger District (11091903) Completed 

47263 Mingus Cemetery Special Use Permit Hoosier National Forest All Units 

(11091200) 

Completed 

43529 MNDNR LAC1076–53 LaCroix Ranger District (11090906) Completed 

43530 MNDNR LAU1070–27 Laurentian Ranger District (11090901) Completed 

44649 MNDNR LAU1070–30 Laurentian Ranger District (11090901) Completed 

43531 MNDNR LAU1071–49 reroute Laurentian Ranger District (11090901) Completed 

46979 Moccasin Lake Lot 2 Septic Replacement Hiawatha National Forest All Units 

(11091000) 

Completed 

44745 Mondeaux Avenue Electric Line Rebuild Chequamegon/Nicolet National Forest All 

Units (11091300) 

Completed 

46693 Monongahela Power Electrical Powerline Reissue 

Special Use Permit (GBR205002) 

Monongahela National Forest All Units 

(11092100) 

Completed 

45892 Mosquito Creek Crossings Lakewood-Laona Ranger District 

(11091304) 

Completed 

46304 Mountain Water Assoc. Reissue Special Use Permit 

(POT205004) 

Potomac Ranger District (11092105) Completed 

43279 Mower Tract Trail Construction Greenbrier Ranger District (11092103) Completed 

44752 Mt. Tecumseh Communication Site Special Use Permit Pemigewasset Ranger District (11092204) Completed 

46696 Mt. Washington Invasive Dandelion Removal Androscoggin Ranger District (11092202) Completed 

47036 Multi-year Fish Habitat Management Project Washburn Ranger District (11091305) Completed 

46920 Nixon Guided Hunting 5 Year Permit Cadillac/Manistee Ranger District 

(11090403) 

Completed 

47320 Norske Trail Relocation Middlebury Ranger District (11092001) Completed 

45963 North Country Trail Bridge Project Ottawa National Forest All Units 

(11090700) 

Completed 

46795 North Itasca Powerline amendment Deer River Ranger District (11090303) Completed 

44984 North Zone Green Mountain Power Special Use Permit Middlebury Ranger District (11092001) Completed 

45933 Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center Restoration 

Projects 

Northern Great Lakes Visitor Center 

(11091318) 

Completed 

42971 Northern New Hampshire Bird Dog Club Special Use 

Permit Renewal 

Androscoggin Ranger District (11092202) Completed 

45939 Northland Education and Research SUP Great Divide Ranger District (11091302) Completed 

46657 Nummerdor Driveway Construction Cadillac/Manistee Ranger District 

(11090403) 

Completed 

45165 Ohio Power Company Amendments Ironton Ranger District (11091403) Completed 

44069 Old Runway Red Pine and Alder CE Mio Ranger District (11090405) Completed 

46789 Olson Private Driveway Permit Blackduck Ranger District (11090301) Completed 

46865 Onion Creek Unauthorized Road Decommission Kenton Ranger District (11090704) Completed 

45085 Outfitter/Guide Special Use Authorizations Issuance/ 

Reissuance 

Huron-Manistee National Forest All Units 

(11090400) 

Completed 

43365 Overstory Removal Sault Ste. Marie Ranger District 

(11091004) 

Completed 

46501 Oyster Private Road Permit Deer River Ranger District (11090303) Completed 

45741 Palmquist Special Use, Slate River Access Bessemer Ranger District (11090702) Completed 

47462 Petersen Stair Project Deer River Ranger District (11090303) Completed 

47252 Pine Grove Lodge Residence Deer River Ranger District (11090303) Completed 

46835 Pine Lake Association Dock SUP Lakewood-Laona Ranger District 

(11091304) 

Completed 

45403 Pine River KW Opening Maintenance Project Huron Shores Ranger District (11090406) Completed 

45789 Plum Creek Special Use, Ponozzo Road Iron River Ranger District (11090703) Completed 

45781 Polar Bear Plunge (CYAC) Recreation Event Special 

Use Permit 

White Sulphur Ranger District (11092106) Completed 

45597 Potlatch FR2710 and 2710A Road Permit Deer River Ranger District (11090303) Completed 

45601 Private Road 8491 Road User Association Private 

Road Permit 

Houston/Rolla/Cedar Creek Ranger District (11090503) Completed 

43452 Private Road Special Use Permit Amendment 

SAL15502–1 

Salem Ranger District (11090507) Completed 

47536 Private Road Special Use Permit FRT106 Potosi/Fredericktown Ranger District 

(11090505) 

Completed 

47585 Private Road Special Use Permit POT15102 Potosi/Fredericktown Ranger District 

(11090505) 

Completed 

45264 Private Road Special Use Permit POT339–1 Potosi/Fredericktown Ranger District 

(11090505) 

Completed 

46862 Private Road Special Use Permit POT360 Potosi/Fredericktown Ranger District 

(11090505) 

Completed 

47581 Private Road Special Use Permit POT365 Potosi/Fredericktown Ranger District 

(11090505) 

Completed 

47175 Private Road Special Use Permit POT370 Potosi/Fredericktown Ranger District 

(11090505) 

Completed 

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Project 

No. Project Name Lead Management Unit Overall NEPA Process Status 

45260 Private Road Special Use Permit SAL232 Salem Ranger District (11090507) Completed 

47590 Private Road Special Use Permit SAL236 Salem Ranger District (11090507) Completed 

47148 Rainbow Springs SUP Ava/Cassville/Willow Springs Ranger District (11090521) Completed 

45102 Ransburg Scout Reservation Private Road/Trail SU 

Permit 

Hoosier National Forest All Units 

(11091200) 

Completed 

45266 Recreation Special Use Permit POT23502 Potosi/Fredericktown Ranger District 

(11090505) 

Completed 

47708 Recreation Special Use Permit POT24602 Potosi/Fredericktown Ranger District 

(11090505) 

Completed 

47583 Recreation Special Use Permit POT366 Potosi/Fredericktown Ranger District 

(11090505) 

Completed 

47707 Recreation Special Use Permit POT368 Potosi/Fredericktown Ranger District 

(11090505) 

Completed 

47709 Recreation Special Use Permit POT373 Potosi/Fredericktown Ranger District 

(11090505) 

Completed 

47587 Recreation Special Use Permit POT374 Potosi/Fredericktown Ranger District 

(11090505) 

Completed 

47535 Recreation Special Use Permit Renewal POT369 Potosi/Fredericktown Ranger District 

(11090505) 

Completed 

44981 Reid 20 Year Private Road Permit Baldwin/White Cloud Ranger District 

(11090401) 

Completed 

40331 Reissuance of the Enbridge Energy, Limited Partner Reissuance of the Enbridge Energy, Limited Partnership Special Use Authorization ship Special Use Authorization Mio Ranger District (11090405) Completed 

42377 Reissuance Special Use Permits that Expire on 12/31/ 

2014 

Kawishiwi Ranger District (11090905) Completed 

46432 Revised Lake Habitat Restoration Project Eagle River-Florence Ranger District 

(11091303) 

Completed 

46663 Rich Private Road Permit Deer River Ranger District (11090303) Completed 

47030 Richey Private & Forest Road Permit Deer River Ranger District (11090303) Completed 

46993 Rothstein; MSU; Biomass Research Mio Ranger District (11090405) Completed 

45991 Sawdust Lake Stewardship Project Washburn Ranger District (11091305) Completed 

46303 Secondary Access Butcher #1–A Well Wayne National Forest All Units 

(11091400) 

Completed 

46619 Seely Private Road Special Use Permit Baldwin/White Cloud Ranger District 

(11090401) 

Completed 

46387 Seneca High Adventure Christian Camp Special Use 

Permit Reauthorization 

Potomac Ranger District (11092105) Completed 

43396 Silver Mines Recreation Area Hazard Mitigations Potosi/Fredericktown Ranger District 

(11090505) 

Completed 

44468 SIP Permit Consolidation Hoosier National Forest All Units 

(11091200) 

Completed 

45747 SIP/PSCI-Larry Wilson Permit Hoosier National Forest All Units 

(11091200) 

Completed 

41852 Snow Valley C7 Snowmobile Trail Relocation Manchester Ranger District (11092002) Completed 

46681 Snowmobile Trail 70 Re-route Great Divide Ranger District (11091302) Completed 

43196 Soo Line Trail FSR 3036 Reroute Project Walker Ranger District (11090305) Completed 

42967 South Pond Road Association Special Use Permit Renewal Androscoggin Ranger District (11092202) Completed 

44117 South Pond Road Association Special Use Permit Renewal Androscoggin Ranger District (11092202) Completed 

46864 Special Use Permit POT119 Potosi/Fredericktown Ranger District 

(11090505) 

Completed 

46386 Special Use Permit POT14502 Potosi/Fredericktown Ranger District 

(11090505) 

Completed 

46870 Special Use Permit POT26101 Potosi/Fredericktown Ranger District 

(11090505) 

Completed 

44857 Springer Spaniel Field Trial Special Use Hector Ranger District (11092003) Completed 

46342 Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks Telephone & Fiber Optic 

Reissue Special Use Permit (POT205006 & 

POT205007) 

Potomac Ranger District (11092105) Completed 

44021 St. Louis County LAC1601–55 LaCroix Ranger District (11090906) Completed 

42953 St. Louis County LAU1002–48 Laurentian Ranger District (11090901) Completed 

43697 St. Louis County LAU1002–56 Laurentian Ranger District (11090901) Completed 

44650 St. Louis County LAU1002–57 Laurentian Ranger District (11090901) Completed 

45831 Stephen Ballard Private Property Access Road Cadillac/Manistee Ranger District 

(11090403) 

Completed 

47425 Stout Red Pine Salvage and Reforestation Project Huron Shores Ranger District (11090406) Completed 

45120 Strecok Private Land Access SUP Lakewood-Laona Ranger District 

(11091304) 

Completed 

44982 Switzer 20 Year Private Road Permit Baldwin/White Cloud Ranger District 

(11090401) 

Completed 

36436 Tarsi Special Use Proposal, Net River Iron River Ranger District (11090703) Completed 

45994 Taylor Electric Cooperative Red Pine Road Line Installation Medford-Park Falls Ranger District 

(11091301) 

Completed 

45480 Tea Creek Phase II Marlinton Ranger District (11092104) Completed 

46382 Temporary Road Special Use Permit POT357 Potosi/Fredericktown Ranger District 

(11090505) 

Completed 

47537 Temporary Road Special Use Permit POT363 Potosi/Fredericktown Ranger District 

(11090505) 

Completed 

47032 Temporary Road Special Use Permit POT364 Potosi/Fredericktown Ranger District 

(11090505) 

Completed 

47176 Temporary Road Special Use Permit SAL238 Salem Ranger District (11090507) Completed 

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Project 

No. Project Name Lead Management Unit Overall NEPA Process Status 

46607 The Iosco County Stockpile Permit Special Use Authorization Renewal Huron Shores Ranger District (11090406) Completed 

45306 The Southern Illinois Fat Tire Festival Shawnee National Forest All Units 

(11090800) 

Completed 

45570 Timber Ridge Outpost and Cabins Outfitter Guide 

Permit 

Hidden Springs Ranger District 

(11090804) 

Completed 

46099 TK Ranch Campground Hidden Springs Ranger District 

(11090804) 

Completed 

44623 Tofte Mixed Trail/Road Recreation Use Project Tofte Ranger District (11090907) Completed 

47047 Top Notch Triathlon Pemigewasset Ranger District (11092204) Completed 

46350 Tour de Lumberjack Bike Event Huron Shores Ranger District (11090406) Completed 

47227 U.S. Fast Track Special Use Road Access Ava/Cassville/Willow Springs Ranger District (11090521) Completed 

45179 Union Baptist Church Road Permit Ironton Ranger District (11091403) Completed 

47546 Union Chapel Church Road ROW/CHT205003 Cheat Ranger District (11092101) Completed 

44872 Upper Peninsula Power Company Underground Electric Cable Installation Hiawatha National Forest All Units 

(11091000) 

Completed 

43933 Upper River Road Trailhead for the North Country 

Trail 

Cadillac/Manistee Ranger District 

(11090403) 

Completed 

45512 US Geological Service Stream Gauge Permit 

Reissuance 

Baldwin/White Cloud Ranger District 

(11090401) 

Completed 

46224 USA Merrill 1–18A Production Facility Construction Baldwin/White Cloud Ranger District 

(11090401) 

Completed 

40592 Utilities District of Western Indiana Buried Power 

Line Permit Renewal 

Brownstown Ranger District (11091202) Completed 

46377 Utility Special Use Permit Amendment POT400405–2 Potosi/Fredericktown Ranger District 

(11090505) 

Completed 

47573 Utility Special Use Permit Amendment POT400405–4 Potosi/Fredericktown Ranger District 

(11090505) 

Completed 

46603 Vavala SUA Road ROW Allegheny National Forest All Units 

(11091900) 

Completed 

45838 Voyageurs Classic Sled Dog Race Deer River Ranger District (11090303) Completed 

45314 W. Timber Haul Hidden Springs Ranger District 

(11090804) 

Completed 

43477 Waiska River Road (FS 3352) Spile Dams Removal St. Ignace Ranger District (11091005) Completed 

45012 Ward Chittendon Special Use Permit Kawishiwi Ranger District (11090905) Completed 

46638 Washburn Challenge Special Use Permit Pemigewasset Ranger District (11092204) Completed 

30149 West Fork Bottomland Restoration Project Salem Ranger District (11090507) Completed 

44891 West Side Road Permit Renewals 2014 Chequamegon/Nicolet National Forest All 

Units (11091300) 

Completed 

46883 Westphal Special Use Forest Road Permit Cadillac/Manistee Ranger District 

(11090403) 

Completed 

46073 Westside Openlands Burn Expansion Mississippi Bluffs Ranger District 

(11090802) 

Completed 

40737 Wheatlake/DeYoung Baldwin/White Cloud Ranger District 

(11090401) 

Completed 

46637 White Mountain Triathlon Special Use Permit Pemigewasset Ranger District (11092204) Completed 

44090 Wilbur Creek Trail Bridge Replacement Huron Shores Ranger District (11090406) Completed 

43261 Wild River Valley Trail Repairs Androscoggin Ranger District (11092202) Completed 

45128 William Makela Special Use Permit Kawishiwi Ranger District (11090905) Completed 

45839 Williams Narrows Resort Permit Deer River Ranger District (11090303) Completed 

43675 Wisconsin Central Railroad Special Use Reissue Ottawa National Forest All Units 

(11090700) 

Completed 

45580 Woodford SnoBusters Groomer Access Trail Special 

Use Re-issue 

Manchester Ranger District (11092002) Completed 

45581 Woodford SnoBusters Hot Dog Roast and Special People Ride Recreation Event Special Use Re-issue Manchester Ranger District (11092002) Completed 

46667 Wright Private Road Permit Baldwin/White Cloud Ranger District 

(11090401) 

Completed 

45862 WV DOH Bartow Road Stabilization S.P. 38–220– 

3.30 Special Use Permit 

Monongahela National Forest All Units 

(11092100) 

Completed 

47143 WV DOH Cass Rockfall Relocate Road GBR202004 Monongahela National Forest All Units 

(11092100) 

Completed 

45549 WVDOH Fishing Hawk Bridge S.P. 42–22–13.19 special use permit (GBR202001) Greenbrier Ranger District (11092103) Completed 

44855 Youth Pioneer Event Special Use Hector Ranger District (11092003) Completed 

46816 Zito Media Fiber Optic Line Special Use Bradford Ranger District (11091903) Completed 

Region: R10—Alaska Region (1110) 

Decision Doc Type: DM 

NEPA Decision Signed Date Range: 10/01/2014 through 09/30/2015 

Project Simple Format 

Projects Found: 51 

44598 2014 Special Use Permit Renewals Cordova Ranger District (11100420) Completed 

48215 2015 Capitol Christmas Tree Seward Ranger District (11100430) Completed 

45370 2015 Hecla Greens Creek Mining Company Surface 

Exploration Annual Work Plan 

Admiralty National Monument (11100534) Completed 

45778 2015 Herbert Gold Project Juneau Ranger District (11100533) Completed 

46150 ADF&G (Fisheries) Unuk River Work Camp Amendment 2 Tongass National Forest All Units 

(11100500) 

Completed 

44103 ADFG Tent Platform CE Wrangell Ranger District (11100522) Completed 

45615 AEL&P Snettisham Powerline Weather Monitoring 

Station 

Juneau Ranger District (11100533) Completed 

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Project 

No. Project Name Lead Management Unit Overall NEPA Process Status 

45761 Alaska Alpine Adventures Ski Touring in Summit 

Lake Area 

Seward Ranger District (11100430) Completed 

48065 Alyeska Pipelines Service Company Hinchinbrook Island Communications Site Reissue Cordova Ranger District (11100420) Completed 

46799 Anan Creek Partial Barrier Falls Modification Wrangell Ranger District (11100522) Completed 

41008 Anan Trail Maintenance (gravel) Wrangell Ranger District (11100522) Completed 

45770 ANM JRD Isolated or Pre-ANILCA Cabin Permit Renewals 2015 Admiralty National Monument (11100534) Completed 

30073 Auk Village Rec Area Parking Improvement Juneau Ranger District (11100533) Completed 

45028 CAC Gravina Exploration Project Cordova Ranger District (11100420) Completed 

45252 City of Cordova Sewer Line Reissue Cordova Ranger District (11100420) Completed 

45821 Claude Point Isolated Cabin SUA Renewal Tongass National Forest All Units 

(11100500) 

Completed 

47602 Daycare Association Special Use Permit Thorne Bay Ranger District (11100554) Completed 

47020 Egg Island Wetland Enhancement Project Cordova Ranger District (11100420) Completed 

47507 GCI Fiber-optic Cable Installation within Existing 

Utility Corridor 

Cordova Ranger District (11100420) Completed 

46269 Granite Creek Campground Streambank Stabilization and Fisheries Enhancement Project Glacier Ranger District (11100410) Completed 

46041 Green Power Development LLC—Permit extension 

for stream gauging station 

Juneau Ranger District (11100533) Completed 

45067 He’en Latinee Meteorological Development Juneau Ranger District (11100533) Completed 

46992 Hope Highway Non-System Road Project Seward Ranger District (11100430) Completed 

45687 Italio River Adventures O/G Camp move Yakutat Ranger District (11100535) Completed 

46453 Jackpot Lakes Habitat Enhancement Glacier Ranger District (11100410) Completed 

46284 Jerome Lake Trickle-dam Removal Seward Ranger District (11100430) Completed 

46215 Kensington 2015 Annual Exploration Plan Juneau Ranger District (11100533) Completed 

45617 Ketchikan Snowmobile Club Cabin SUA Renewal Tongass National Forest All Units 

(11100500) 

Completed 

45110 Knowles Head Restoration Thinning Cordova Ranger District (11100420) Completed 

45331 Lonesome Dove Outfitters Assigned Site Cordova Ranger District (11100420) Completed 

45637 Lower Tawah Access Trail Yakutat Ranger District (11100535) Completed 

46309 Mitkof Island Deer Habitat Enhancement Petersburg Ranger District (11100521) Completed 

45727 Naukati Boat Launch Access Area Thorne Bay Ranger District (11100554) Completed 

43253 Oyster Farms Permit Renewal 2015–2019 Wrangell Ranger District (11100522) Completed 

45343 Petersburg Ranger District Riparian Thinning Petersburg Ranger District (11100521) Completed 

44690 Portage Valley Waterfowl and Fish Habitat Improvement Project Glacier Ranger District (11100410) Completed 

44835 Reissue Four Special Use Authorizations on the Petersburg Ranger District Petersburg Ranger District (11100521) Completed 

45803 Reissue Special Use Authorization for USCG Differential GPS facility at Level Island Tongass National Forest All Units 

(11100500) 

Completed 

46166 Russian River Firearm Restriction—Forest Order Seward Ranger District (11100430) Completed 

47010 San Juan Creek Habitat Improvement Cordova Ranger District (11100420) Completed 

45625 Saw Ridge FAA Communication Site SUA Ketchikan—Misty Ranger District 

(11100552) 

Completed 

35861 Scott Shelly Private Road Special Use Permit Renewal Glacier Ranger District (11100410) Completed 

45748 Slippery Fishpass Modification Petersburg Ranger District (11100521) Completed 

45168 Southern Prince of Wales Pre-commercial Thinning Craig Ranger District (11100551) Completed 

45018 TelAlaska Telephone and Fiberoptic Special Use Permit Reissue Seward Ranger District (11100430) Completed 

45879 Tenakee Peril Strait Thinning Project Sitka Ranger District (11100531) Completed 

46237 Thorne Bay Sort Yard Mineral Material Sale—Phase 

1 

Thorne Bay Ranger District (11100554) Completed 

42914 Two temporary sawmills at False Island and Corner 

Bay. 

Sitka Ranger District (11100531) Completed 

47509 Weise and Wolfe Isolated Cabin Reissue Cordova Ranger District (11100420) Completed 

45877 Wrangell District Thinning Wrangell Ranger District (11100522) Completed 

46569 Zarembo Minerals Investigation 2015–2016 Wrangell Ranger District (11100522) Completed 

Region: Forest Products Lab (1111); International Institute of Tropical Forestry (1112); Rocky Mountain Research Station (1122); 

Northern Research Station (1124); Pacific Northwest Research Station (1126); Pacific Southwest Research Station (1127); Southern 

Research Station (1133); Northeastern Area—State and Private Forestry (1142) 

Decision Doc Type: DM 

NEPA Decision Signed Date Range: 10/01/2014 through 09/30/2015 

Project Simple Format 

Projects Found: 1 

39236 NEON Flux Tower at San Joaquin Experimental 

Range 

San Joaquin ER All Units (11271000) Completed 

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No. Project Name Lead Management Unit Overall NEPA Process Status 

Region: R1—Northern Region (1101) 

Decision Doc Type: DN 

NEPA Decision Signed Date Range: 10/01/2014 through 09/30/2015 

Project Simple Format 

Projects Found: 23 

38515 Barnyard South Sheep North Fork Ranger District (11011753) Completed 

42483 Bottom Canyon Project Fernan Ranger District (11010403) Completed 

37993 Burnt Fork, Hogan Crk On/Off, Rock Crk, Sage Crk 

and Proposed Red Butte Allotments Rangeland 

Project 

Beartooth Ranger District (11010802) Completed 

39057 Colette Mine Stream Restoration Project Lochsa/Powell Ranger District (11011755) Completed 

36615 Darby Lumber Lands Watershed Improvement and 

Travel Management Project 

Darby Ranger District (11010302) Completed 

47237 East Yellowstone Trail NFSR 7901 Road Improvements Medora Ranger District (11011807) Completed 

37369 Elkhorn Gravel Pit Medora Ranger District (11011807) Completed 

40785 Hellroaring Bonners Ferry Ranger District (11010407) Completed 

33676 Highwood Mountains Range Judith Ranger District (11011504) Completed 

44559 International Western Company water pumping facility and associated utilities Dakota Prairie Grasslands All Units 

(11011800) 

Completed 

42170 Little Belt Mountains Hazard Tree Removal Lewis And Clark National Forest All Units 

(11011500) 

Completed 

33857 Little Snowy Mountains Restoration Musselshell Ranger District (11011506) Completed 

43096 Lolo First 50 Road Decommissioning Project Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest All 

Units (11011700) 

Completed 

38754 Martin Creek Resource Management Project Tally Lake Ranger District (11011008) Completed 

43633 Nelson Bike Shuttle Special Use Permit Request Superior Ranger District (11011607) Completed 

42542 O’Keefe Grazing Allotment Management Plan Revision Missoula Ranger District (11011603) Completed 

40176 Selway Bank Stabilization Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest All 

Units (11011700) 

Completed 

45224 Stillwater Mining Company’s Benbow Exploration 

Portal & Support Facilities Plan of Operations 

Custer Gallatin National Forest All Units 

(11011100) 

Completed 

38517 Strychnine Pine Palouse Ranger District (11011752) Completed 

41100 Sweet Grass Integrated Resource Resiliency and Restoration Yellowstone Ranger District (11011104) Completed 

30894 Trapper Creek Vegetation Management Wise River Ranger District (11010202) Completed 

42843 Treasured Landscapes Recreation Projects Sandpoint Ranger District (11010406) Completed 

44946 True Oil Red Wing Creek Master Development Plan Mckenzie Ranger District (11011808) Completed 

Region: R2—Rocky Mountain Region (1102) 

Decision Doc Type: DN 

NEPA Decision Signed Date Range: 10/01/2014 through 09/30/2015 

Project Simple Format 

Projects Found: 34 

41619 Basalt to Gypsum Motorized Singletrack West Zone/Sopris Ranger District 

(11021503) 

Completed 

45800 Beaver Park Reservoir Special Use Permit Divide Ranger District (11020904) Completed 

44493 Billy Creek Timber Sale Powder River Ranger District (11020201) Completed 

39610 Cain Creek Land Exchange Nebraska National Forest All Units 

(11020700) 

Completed 

40222 Carbon Power and Light Powerline Clearing along 

Highway 130 

Laramie Ranger District (11020605) Completed 

24022 CDOT Highway 133 Debris Dump Site and Placita 

Roadside Landscaping 

West Zone/Sopris Ranger District 

(11021503) 

Completed 

41474 Cherokee Park Project Canyon Lakes Ranger District (11021005) Completed 

42510 Coulton Floyd II Timber & Fuels Management 

Analysis 

Hahns Peak/Bears Ears Ranger District 

(11020603) 

Completed 

44272 Crossons-Longview Environmental Assessment Forest Restoration Project South Platte Ranger District (11021211) In Progress 

38671 Dillon Ranger District Outfitter Guides Additional 

Use 

East Zone/Dillon Ranger District 

(11021510) 

Completed 

32444 East Aspen Metro District Mosquito Control West Zone/Aspen Ranger District 

(11021501) 

Completed 

40959 Forest Health—Burnt Ridge Aspen Management 

Project 

Mancos/Dolores Ranger District 

(11021305) 

Completed 

43000 Forest Health—Fosset Gulch/Northern HDs Ecosystem Restoration Project Columbine Ranger District (11021308) Completed 

40708 Jewel Cave Withdrawal Hell Canyon Ranger District (11020303) Completed 

45401 Lazy Beaver Claim—Placer Mining Plan of Operations Northern Hills Ranger District (11020308) Completed 

46127 Long Creek Project Wind River Ranger District (11021405) Completed 

41420 Long Park AMP Yampa Ranger District (11020601) Completed 

25720 Pikes Peak RD 10 Year Priority Outfitter & Guide 

Permits 

Pikes Peak Ranger District (11021209) Completed 

44517 Pine Ridge Landscape Restoration Project Nebraska National Forest All Units 

(11020700) 

Completed 

38657 Piney 2012 Project East Zone/Holy Cross Ranger District 

(11021507) 

Completed 

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No. Project Name Lead Management Unit Overall NEPA Process Status 

45735 Poage Lake Spruce Beetle Salvage Project Divide Ranger District (11020904) Completed 

40812 Rangeland Management in the Whiskey Creek Analysis Area (formerly the Dudley Analysis Area). Hahns Peak/Bears Ears Ranger District 

(11020603) 

Completed 

45736 Roads—Chub Draw and Gordon Creek Gravel Pit Reentry and Expansion Pagosa Ranger District (11021306) Completed 

43903 Roaring Fork Stream Restoration Project Rio Grande National Forest All Units 

(11020900) 

Completed 

45402 Robey #1 Claim—Placer Mining Plan of Operations Northern Hills Ranger District (11020308) Completed 

44643 Snowmass Ski Trail Enhancements and High Alpine 

Chairlift Replacement 

White River National Forest All Units 

(11021500) 

Completed 

36896 Summit Huts—New Hut Construction and Associated 

Access Trail and Parking Lot 

East Zone/Dillon Ranger District 

(11021510) 

Completed 

30294 Tennessee Creek Vegetation Management Project Leadville Ranger District (11021201) Completed 

45161 Town of Mountain Village Waterline Extension 

Project 

Norwood Ranger District (11020405) Completed 

40865 Upper Colorado Forest Health and Fuels Reduction 

Project 

Sulphur Ranger District (11021008) Completed 

45513 Willett Creek, Forest Service Road (FSR) 226 Reroute Project Bighorn National Forest All Units 

(11020200) 

Cancelled 

47194 Willett Creek, Forest Service Road 226 Reroute 

Project 

Bighorn National Forest All Units 

(11020200) 

Completed 

41481 Willow Creek Analysis Project Parks Ranger District (11020604) Completed 

43154 Wilson Peak Land Exchange Grand Mesa Uncompahgre and Gunnison 

National Forest All Units (11020400) 

Completed 

Region: R3—Southwestern Region (1103) 

Decision Doc Type: DN 

NEPA Decision Signed Date Range: 10/01/2014 through 09/30/2015 

Project Simple Format 

Projects Found: 15 

41041 APS NO1 Youngs to Mormon Lake 69kV Power Line Flagstaff Ranger District (11030408) Completed 

184 Burro Forest Restoration Project Reserve Ranger District (11030606) Completed 

46027 Chino Small Grazing Allotments Chino Valley Ranger District (11030901) Completed 

43268 Dragoon Allotment Livestock Water Pipeline Project Douglas Ranger District (11030501) Completed 

36969 El Rito Canyon Landscape Restoration Project El Rito Ranger District (11030202) Completed 

44934 Energen Resources Corporation Oil and Gas Production Facility Special Use Authorization Jicarilla Ranger District (11030203) Completed 

26496 Grazing Permit Reauthorization, Lake Allotment Nogales Ranger District (11030502) Completed 

42876 Larson Forest Restoration Project Black Mesa Ranger District (11030102) Completed 

34153 Magdalena Travel Management Project Magdalena Ranger District (11030303) Completed 

41543 Plan of Operations for Imerys Perlite Mine Globe Ranger District (11031202) Completed 

43312 Restoration of Rio Grande Cutthroat Trout in the 

Animas Creek Watershed 

Black Range Ranger District (11030602) Completed 

36849 Santa Fe Municipal Watershed Pecos Wilderness Prescribed Burn Espanola Ranger District (11031006) Completed 

42214 Spring Creek (Oak Creek Aquatic Species Protection) Red Rock Ranger District (11030406) Completed 

39533 Springerville/Alpine Trailhead Environmental Assessment Springerville Ranger District (11030106) Completed 

42814 Walnut Creek Center for Education and Research 

and Southwest Experimental Garden Array 

Chino Valley Ranger District (11030901) Completed 

Region: R4—Intermountain Region (1104) 

Decision Doc Type: DN 

NEPA Decision Signed Date Range: 10/01/2014 through 09/30/2015 

Project Simple Format 

Projects Found: 31 

44545 Atwood Dam Repair Project Ashley National Forest All Units 

(11040100) 

Completed 

38011 Ballpark Road Re-Location Lost River Ranger District (11041304) Completed 

43169 Black Canyon CDT (Continental Divide Trail) Ashton/Island Park (11041552) Completed 

41469 Cart Creek Watershed Roads Improvement Project Vernal Ranger District (11040102) Completed 

42438 Centennial—Seligman Mine Plan Ely Ranger District (11041709) Completed 

21302 Cumo Exploration Project (previously listed as Cumo 

2007 Project) 

Idaho City Ranger District (11040203) Completed 

44874 Dry Ridge Exploration Montpelier Ranger District (11041553) Completed 

41401 East Walker Landscape Habitat Improvement Project Bridgeport Ranger District (11041702) Completed 

40233 East Zone Minerals Source Sites Escalante Ranger District (11040704) Completed 

38334 Ely Ranger District Wilderness Management Plan Ely Ranger District (11041709) Completed 

44115 Green Springs Exploration Project Ely Ranger District (11041709) Completed 

45873 Jackson Hole Mountain Resort Suite of Projects Jackson Ranger District (11040304) Completed 

41247 Kilgore, North Area Dubois Ranger District (11041551) Completed 

41873 Mill Creek Dam Removal and Restoration Project Salt Lake Ranger District (11041901) Completed 

40164 Moon Lake Boat Ramp Roosevelt Ranger District (11040103) Completed 

45605 Multi-use Visitor Path Powell Ranger District (11040703) Completed 

40313 North Elk Ridge Forest Health Project Monticello Ranger District (11041005) Completed 

45097 North Heber Salvage Project Heber-Kamas Ranger District (11041903) Completed 

34413 North Island Park WUI Ashton/Island Park (11041552) Completed 

37616 Old Mill WUI Hazardous Fuels Treatment Spring Mountains National Recreation 

Area (11041705) 

Completed 

36593 Overland Pass Habitat Improvement Project Ruby Mountains Ranger District 

(11041707) 

Completed 

37386 Sawyer Point Vegetation Treatment Cedar City Ranger District (11040702) Completed 

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No. Project Name Lead Management Unit Overall NEPA Process Status 

46245 South Central Utah Telephone Association Special 

Use Project 

Powell Ranger District (11040703) Completed 

42811 Stoddard Creek Recreation Plan Dubois Ranger District (11041551) Completed 

35803 Teeple Springs Vegetation Management Project Fremont River Ranger District (11040802) Completed 

42807 Thomas Draw Road 637 Bypass Dubois Ranger District (11041551) Completed 

46148 Toms Creek Powerline Ashton/Island Park (11041552) Completed 

44514 Town of Manila Land Conveyance—Manila Landfill Flaming Gorge Ranger District (11040101) Completed 

41548 Upper Provo Watershed Restoration Project. Heber-Kamas Ranger District (11041903) Completed 

36586 Ward Mt. Interagency Landscape Restoration and 

Fuels Reduction Project 

Ely Ranger District (11041709) Completed 

40734 West Slope Wildland-Urban Interface Hazardous 

Fuels Reduction Project 

Moab Ranger District (11041004) Completed 

Region: R5—Pacific Southwest Region (1105) 

Decision Doc Type: DN 

NEPA Decision Signed Date Range: 10/01/2014 through 09/30/2015 

Project Simple Format 

Projects Found: 38 

42834 29 Milestone Residence Removal Eldorado National Forest All Units 

(11050300) 

Completed 

45965 Bald Fire Salvage and Restoration Bald Fire Salvage and Restoration Lassen National Forest All Units 

(11050600) 

Completed 

39344 Bald Mountain Project High Sierra Ranger District (11051552) Completed 

35610 Baron Ranch Trail Connector Santa Barbara Ranger District (11050754) Completed 

40396 Bloody Run Sub-Watershed Forest Health Improvement Project Yuba River Ranger District (11051753) Completed 

39216 Cabin Removal and Restoration Ojai Ranger District (11050755) Completed 

33698 Carr-Tucker Allotments Water Development Projects Doublehead Ranger District (11050956) Completed 

45698 Cedar Creek Falls Visitor Use Permit System Modification Palomar Ranger District (11050253) Completed 

41607 Cleveland National Forest Invasive Weed Management Plan Cleveland National Forest All Units 

(11050200) 

Completed 

40398 Coleman Thinning Project Yuba River Ranger District (11051753) Completed 

40981 Discovery Placer Exploration Project Beckwourth Ranger District (11051101) Completed 

41631 Dry Creek Project Truckee Ranger District (11051757) Completed 

41661 Eagle Bird Mine Claim Group Project Yuba River Ranger District (11051753) Completed 

45962 Eiler Fire Salvage and Restoration Lassen National Forest All Units 

(11050600) 

Completed 

38566 Feather River Allotment Livestock Grazing Management Project—Name Change Almanor Ranger District (11050651) Completed 

45636 French Fire Recovery and Reforestation Project French Fire Recovery and Reforestation Project Bass Lake Ranger District (11051551) Completed 

39787 Geraldine Mining Plan of Operations Feather River Ranger District (11051103) Completed 

32113 Gordon Hill Vegetation Management Project Gasquet Ranger District/Smith River NRA 

(11051051) 

Completed 

40385 Hayden Project Beckwourth Ranger District (11051101) Completed 

34802 Historic Facilities BMP Retrofit Lake Tahoe Basin Mgt Unit (11051900) Completed 

37551 Incline Lake Dam Project Lake Tahoe Basin Mgt Unit (11051900) Completed 

38745 Laguna Water System Improvement Descanso Ranger District (11050254) Completed 

38743 Lake Morena Community Defense Project Descanso Ranger District (11050254) Completed 

46674 Liberty Utilities 619 Power Line Maintenance Project Beckwourth Ranger District (11051101) Completed 

45313 Little Deer Project Goosenest Ranger District (11050557) Completed 

38544 Little Truckee Fish Habitat Improvement Project Truckee Ranger District (11051757) Completed 

41939 McKesick Peak and Ferris Fields Allotments Project Beckwourth Ranger District (11051101) Completed 

40910 Neilsen Grazing Allotment Management Plan Placerville Ranger District (11050356) Completed 

42264 Parks-Eddy Watershed Restoration Mt. Shasta Ranger District (11051459) Completed 

44035 Perez Pipeline Extension Doublehead Ranger District (11050956) Completed 

35104 PG&E Herbicide Vegetation Management Program Plumas National Forest All Units 

(11051100) 

Completed 

44112 Pioneer Invasive Plant Treatment Project Eagle Lake Ranger District (11050658) Completed 

42877 Sierra Front OHV Restoration White Mountain Ranger District 

(11050453) 

Completed 

44911 TCRCD Hazardous Fuels Reduction Almanor Ranger District (11050651) Completed 

45961 Upper Pine Creek Boundary Fence Eagle Lake Ranger District (11050658) Completed 

41757 Watershed Restoration Near Pagge Creek and the 

Sugar Pine Staging Area 

American River Ranger District 

(11051754) 

Completed 

40832 West Calaveras Thin Plantation Health Improvement Calaveras Ranger District (11051652) Completed 

25380 Westside Plantation Project Shasta Trinity National Forest All Units 

(11051400) 

Completed 

Region: R6—Pacific Northwest Region (1106) 

Decision Doc Type: DN 

NEPA Decision Signed Date Range: 10/01/2014 through 09/30/2015 

Project Simple Format 

Projects Found: 48 

44960 1136 Spur Road Project Hebo Ranger District (11061201) Completed 

40719 Accessible Fishing Docks Project Tonasket Ranger District (11061709) Completed 

43087 Annie Restoration (AR) Project Tonasket Ranger District (11061709) Completed 

45739 Bailey Butte Fire Project Lookout Mountain Ranger District 

(11060701) 

Completed 

41022 Big Mosquito Blue Mountain Ranger District (11060401) Completed 

38013 Bluejay Vegetation Restoration Project Chiloquin Ranger District (11060212) Completed 

44624 Bonaparte Lake and Lost Lake Campground Projects Tonasket Ranger District (11061709) Completed 

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No. Project Name Lead Management Unit Overall NEPA Process Status 

38487 Buck Tule Detroit Ranger District (11061804) Completed 

41511 Cascadia Day Use Forest Plan Amendment and Site 

Development 

Sweet Home Ranger District (11061803) Completed 

42821 Central Malheur Allotment Emigrant Creek Ranger District 

(11060402) 

Completed 

46234 Central Oregon Interagency Dispatch Center Building Lease Redmond Air Center (11060106) Completed 

43726 Chewuch River Restoration RM 13–15.5 Methow Valley Ranger District (11061704) Completed 

43264 Cool Soda Sweet Home Ranger District (11061803) Completed 

43484 Crooked Mud Honey Lakeview Ranger District (11060202) Completed 

42153 Deer Jasper Restoration Project Three Rivers Ranger District (11062112) Completed 

43646 Dry Restoration Naches Ranger District (11061708) Completed 

32129 Elk 16 Prairie City Ranger District (11060404) Completed 

37320 Grove Thin Clackamas River Ranger District 

(11060605) 

Completed 

44548 Hansen Creek Vegetation Project North Bend Ranger District (11060505) Completed 

43733 Indian Ford Creek Restoration Project Sisters Ranger District (11060105) Completed 

44567 Izee Allotment Management Plan Emigrant Creek Ranger District 

(11060402) 

Completed 

32816 Junction Vegetation Management Project Bend/Fort Rock Ranger District 

(11060101) 

Completed 

40686 Lava Restoration Hood River Ranger District (11060606) Completed 

21280 Little Dean Fuels Vegetation Management Whitman Ranger District (11061631) Completed 

45715 Mt. Baker Ranger District Geothermal Consent to 

Lease Project 

Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest All 

Units (11060500) 

Completed 

30232 Newberry Geothermal Consent to Lease Project Bend/Fort Rock Ranger District 

(11060101) 

Completed 

43665 North Fork Mill Creek Revised Hood River Ranger District (11060606) Completed 

46300 North Pine Creek Channel Restoration Hells Canyon NRA (11061604) Completed 

41044 Queets Vegetation Management Pacific Ranger District South (11060903) Completed 

42639 Red Butte Cinder Pit Expansion Bend/Fort Rock Ranger District 

(11060101) 

Completed 

41515 Renshaw Vegetation Management Project EA Sullivan Lake Ranger District (11062105) Completed 

28900 Research Natural Area Establishment—Headwaters 

of the Cultus River 

Bend/Fort Rock Ranger District 

(11060101) 

Completed 

28899 Research Natural Area Establishment—Katsuk Butte Bend/Fort Rock Ranger District 

(11060101) 

Completed 

28897 Research Natural Area Establishment—Many Lakes Bend/Fort Rock Ranger District 

(11060101) 

Completed 

28898 Research Natural Area Establishment—Wechee 

Butte 

Bend/Fort Rock Ranger District 

(11060101) 

Completed 

42022 Riparian Weed Treatment Project Willamette National Forest All Units 

(11061800) 

Completed 

42664 Science and Learning Center at Coldwater Camp Gifford Pinchot National Forest All Units 

(11060300) 

Completed 

39933 South Nestucca Restoration Project Hebo Ranger District (11061201) Completed 

46112 South Summit Forest and Fuels II Methow Valley Ranger District (11061704) Completed 

42769 Stevens Pass Phase 3 Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest All 

Units (11060500) 

Completed 

33407 Sucker Creek Legacy Roads and Trails Project Wild Rivers Ranger District (11061022) Completed 

46147 Trout habitat Restoration Program Fish Habitat Improvements Programmatic EA Newport Ranger District (11062103) Completed 

25671 Umpqua National Forest Travel Management Plan Umpqua National Forest All Units 

(11061500) 

Completed 

40801 Wenaha Wild and Scenic River Comprehensive River 

Management Plan 

Pomeroy Ranger District (11061404) Completed 

45021 West Branch LeClerc Creek Watershed Restoration Sullivan Lake Ranger District (11062105) Completed 

45208 White King/Lucky Lass Mines Withdrawal Extension Lakeview Ranger District (11060202) Completed 

40194 Willow Sump Invasive Plant Project North Umpqua Ranger District (11061506) Completed 

42301 Wolf Project Emigrant Creek Ranger District 

(11060402) 

Completed 

Region: R8—Southern Region (1108) 

Decision Doc Type: DN 

NEPA Decision Signed Date Range: 10/01/2014 through 09/30/2015 

Project Simple Format 

Projects Found: 41 

45473 2015 Gypsy Moth Slow the Spread Project George Washington and Jefferson National 

Forest All Units (11080800) 

Completed 

44473 Amaranthine Environmental Assessment Talladega Ranger District (11080106) Completed 

45300 Amendment to the Original Environmental Assessment for the Louisiana Purchase Baseline Trail St. Francis Ranger District (11081007) Completed 

46170 Bee Ridge Pleasant Hill Ranger District (11081004) Completed 

43056 Big Brushy Campground Mena Ranger District (11080907) Completed 

42157 BNF Rush Creek/NFSR 263 Culvert Replacement 

Project 

Bankhead Ranger District (11080101) Completed 

38850 C63 Project Angelina Ranger District (11081301) Completed 

30460 Camp Livingston Ecosystem Management Project Catahoula Ranger District (11080601) Completed 

38856 Cane Pole Multiple Resource Management Project Nantahala Ranger District (11081111) Completed 

42106 Caney Shortleaf Restoration Project Caney Ranger District (11080606) Completed 

43592 Christopher Mountain Restoration Project Womble Ranger District (11080910) Completed 

43233 Columbia Co. and Plum Creek Land Exchange National Forests In Florida All Units 

(11080500) 

Completed 

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No. Project Name Lead Management Unit Overall NEPA Process Status 

44038 Compartment 112 Longleaf Pine Restoration Project Sam Houston Ranger District (11081304) Completed 

44637 Fariview Campground Decommission Project R8—Southern Region All Units (11080000) Completed 

45239 Forest Health EA Seminole Ranger District (11080505) Completed 

46077 Forest Supervisor’s Closure Orders Daniel Boone National Forest All Units 

(11080200) 

Completed 

41944 Georgia Aster and Shortleaf Pine Management Enoree Ranger District (11081201) Completed 

43526 Giant Cane Restoration Project on the Enoree Ranger 

District 

Enoree Ranger District (11081201) Completed 

40077 Grandfather District Restoration Burns Grandfather Ranger District (11081105) Completed 

42468 Greater Collier Watershed Forest Health and Restoration Project Bankhead Ranger District (11080101) Completed 

42473 Horn Mountain Communication Tower Talladega Ranger District (11080106) Completed 

45629 Howard Creek Restoration Project Francis Marion and Sumter National Forest All Units (11081200) Completed 

43611 Locust Gap Pleasant Hill Ranger District (11081004) Completed 

40207 London Fuels Treatment London Ranger District (11080214) Completed 

42570 Mount Ida Watershed Restoration Management 

Project 

Womble Ranger District (11080910) Completed 

39772 NFsAL Indiana Bat Forest Plan Amendment National Forests in Alabama All Units 

(11080100) 

Completed 

42090 Nickleson Branch Oden Ranger District (11080908) Completed 

41436 Oconee Range Allotment Oconee Ranger District (11080308) Completed 

45858 Pipeline Northwest Restoration Plan Oakmulgee Ranger District (11080104) Completed 

43274 Pleasant Hill Wildlife Habitat Improvement Pleasant Hill Ranger District (11081004) Completed 

40286 Potato Hill Mountain Fourche Ranger District (11080904) Completed 

43562 Road/trail decommissioning and trail seasonal closures Conasauga Ranger District (11080301) Completed 

44925 Shoal Creek Road Access Shoal Creek Ranger District (11080105) Completed 

46503 Southern Creek Ouachita River Mena Ranger District (11080907) Completed 

40305 Spirits Project Boston Mountain Ranger District 

(11081005) 

Completed 

40500 Suppression of Southern Pine Beetle Infestations in 

Wildernesses in the National Forests in Texas. 

National Forests In Texas All Units 

(11081300) 

Completed 

41170 Three Knob Project Bayou Ranger District (11081003) Completed 

43553 Upper Kisatchie Bayou Sub Watershed Project Kisatchie Ranger District (11080603) Completed 

44143 US 17, NCDOT Project National Forests In North Carolina All 

Units (11081100) 

Completed 

44366 Watson Hill LLC Vegetation Management and Timber Sale Project Long Cane Ranger District (11081203) Completed 

33235 Wolf Pen Gap 2011 Project Mena Ranger District (11080907) Completed 

Region: R9—Eastern Region (1109) 

Decision Doc Type: DN 

NEPA Decision Signed Date Range: 10/01/2014 through 09/30/2015 

Project Simple Format 

Projects Found: 33 

46076 2015 Gypsy Moth Slow the Spread Project Athens Ranger District (11091401) Completed 

43438 Administrative Radio Repeater Improvement Project White Mountain National Forest All Units 

(11092200) 

Completed 

41796 Ameren Powerline Reconstruction Project Shawnee National Forest All Units 

(11090800) 

Completed 

44135 Bigelow-Newaygo Project Baldwin/White Cloud Ranger District 

(11090401) 

Completed 

41621 Bison Introduction and Grazing Midewin National Tallgrass Prairie All 

Units (11091500) 

Completed 

43807 Black Locust Fuelwood EA Cadillac/Manistee Ranger District 

(11090403) 

Completed 

41633 Boyden Brook Road Decommission, Watershed Restoration and Trail Relocation Project Rochester Ranger District (11092005) Completed 

43303 Briggs and Bridge KW and Hazardous Fuels Project Mio Ranger District (11090405) Completed 

45414 Chequamegon Salvage and Restoration Chequamegon/Nicolet National Forest All 

Units (11091300) 

Completed 

40660 Cook County Land Exchange Superior National Forest All Units 

(11090900) 

Completed 

42959 Eureka Gravel Source Development Project Washburn Ranger District (11091305) Completed 

39955 Fremont-Pineknot East Restoration Project Doniphan/Eleven Point Ranger District 

(11090523) 

Completed 

42945 Gardner Land-for-Land Exchange Mio Ranger District (11090405) Completed 

41839 Gilmore Aspen Management Project Middlebury Ranger District (11092001) Completed 

33106 Glen Ellis Falls Day Use Area Site Improvement 

Project 

Androscoggin Ranger District (11092202) Completed 

44672 Hunters Creek Road Right-of-Way Conveyance Hoosier National Forest All Units 

(11091200) 

Completed 

40494 Jakes Rocks Epic Mountain Bike Trail Bradford Ranger District (11091903) Completed 

39573 Knutson Dam Improvement Project Blackduck Ranger District (11090301) Completed 

43639 Laurentian Vegetation Managment Project Deer River Ranger District (11090303) Completed 

44286 Morgan Lake Campground ATV Designation Eagle River-Florence Ranger District 

(11091303) 

Completed 

45310 North Fork Access Ava/Cassville/Willow Springs Ranger District (11090521) Completed 

40841 Pearl Project Kawishiwi Ranger District (11090905) Completed 

37233 Phragmites Eradication Shawnee National Forest All Units 

(11090800) 

Completed 

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No. Project Name Lead Management Unit Overall NEPA Process Status 

43270 Ramsey Branch Hardwood Restoration Hidden Springs Ranger District 

(11090804) 

Completed 

42975 Red Pine Thinning Project Ottawa National Forest All Units 

(11090700) 

Completed 

44674 Sell Special Use Permit Hoosier National Forest All Units 

(11091200) 

Completed 

42197 SEMO Grazing Allotments Project Doniphan/Eleven Point Ranger District 

(11090523) 

Completed 

44591 Shingobee Vegetation Management Project Walker Ranger District (11090305) Completed 

45228 Smithers RAPRA Special Use Permit Reissuance Hiawatha National Forest All Units 

(11091000) 

Completed 

45814 Supplement to the Green Peak Expansion and Trail 

Construction at Waterville Valley Ski Resort 

Pemigewasset Ranger District (11092204) Completed 

45339 Sweetwater Non-Motorized Winter Trail Baldwin/White Cloud Ranger District 

(11090401) 

Completed 

28198 Upper Greenbrier North Greenbrier Ranger District (11092103) Completed 

41909 Windy Project Tofte Ranger District (11090907) Completed 

Region: R10—Alaska Region (1110) 

Decision Doc Type: DN 

NEPA Decision Signed Date Range: 10/01/2014 through 09/30/2015 

Project Simple Format 

Projects Found: 16 

45109 Anan Floating Dock Wrangell Ranger District (11100522) Completed 

45851 Baranof Island Brewing Company Special Forest 

Products Permit for the Harvest of Spruce Tips 

Sitka Ranger District (11100531) Completed 

43521 Davidson Creek Falls Fish Passage Juneau Ranger District (11100533) Completed 

45795 Hard Labor Mining Plan of Operations Seward Ranger District (11100430) Completed 

47104 Ice Box Mining Plan of Operations Seward Ranger District (11100430) Completed 

41219 Kruzof Island Outfitter Guide EA Sitka Ranger District (11100531) Completed 

43699 Lena Beach Recreation Area Renovation Juneau Ranger District (11100533) Completed 

45010 Margaret Wildlife Observation Enhancements Ketchikan—Misty Ranger District 

(11100552) 

Completed 

37050 Mendenhall Glacier Recreation Area Planning Juneau Ranger District (11100533) Completed 

29099 Mitkof Island Mitkof Island Petersburg Ranger District (11100521) Completed 

43147 Sand Trail Parking Area Construction Project Cordova Ranger District (11100420) Completed 

47105 Three D mining plan of operations Seward Ranger District (11100430) Completed 

45794 Timberline & Stormy Mining Plan of Operations Seward Ranger District (11100430) Completed 

43698 West Glacier Spur Road Area Enhancements Juneau Ranger District (11100533) Completed 

45887 White Rock Mining Plan of Operations Seward Ranger District (11100430) Completed 

45711 Wood Bison Project—Supplemental EA Glacier Ranger District (11100410) Completed 

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Project 

No. Project Name Lead Management Unit Overall NEPA Process Status 

Region: R1—Northern Region (1101) 

Decision Doc Type: ROD 

NEPA Decision Signed Date Range: 10/01/2014 through 09/30/2015 

Project Simple Format 

Projects Found: 10 

29614 Cedar-Thom Superior Ranger District (11011607) Completed 

33829 Como Forest Health Project (FHP) Darby Ranger District (11010302) Completed 

40648 Crooked River Valley Rehabilitation Project Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest All 

Units (11011700) 

Completed 

25807 East Deer Lodge Valley Landscape Restoration Man East Deer Lodge Valley Landscape Restoration Management agement Pintler Ranger District (11010208) Completed 

34594 East Reservoir East Reservoir Libby Ranger District (11011405) Completed 

9850 Forest Plan Revision Kootenai National Forest All Units 

(11011400) 

Completed 

41368 Greater Red Lodge Vegetation and Habitat Manage Greater Red Lodge Vegetation and Habitat Management Project ment Project Beartooth Ranger District (11010802) Completed 

38916 Greater Sage-grouse Management Direction—Beaver Greater Sage-grouse Management Direction—Beaverhead—Deerlodge National Forest head—Deerlodge National Forest Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest All 

Units (11010200) 

Completed 

894 Idaho Panhandle and Kootenai National Forest, Forest Plan Revision Idaho Panhandle National Forest All 

Units (11010400) 

Completed 

45758 Lower Orogrande Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest All 

Units (11011700) 

Completed 

183 

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Project 

No. Project Name Lead Management Unit Overall NEPA Process Status 

Region: R2—Rocky Mountain Region (1102) 

Decision Doc Type: ROD 

NEPA Decision Signed Date Range: 10/01/2014 through 09/30/2015 

Project Simple Format 

Projects Found: 13 

46080 Greater Sage-grouse Management Direction—Medi Greater Sage-grouse Management Direction—Medicine Bow NF and Thunder Basin National Grass cine Bow NF and Thunder Basin National Grassland Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest All 

Units (11020600) 

Completed 

43846 WRNF Wild and Scenic River Suitability Study White River National Forest All Units 

(11021500) 

Completed 

30774 Black Hills National Forest and Thunder Basin National Grasslands Power 230 Kv Line Black Hills National Forest All Units 

(11020300) 

Completed 

34685 Cumbres Vegetation Management Project Conejos Peak Ranger District (11020903) Completed 

38944 Gore Creek Restoration Yampa Ranger District (11020601) Completed 

38134 Greater Sage-grouse Conservation Measures—Thun Greater Sage-grouse Conservation Measures—Thunder Basin NG Plan Amendment der Basin NG Plan Amendment Douglas and Thunder Basin Ranger District (11020609) Completed 

38913 Greater Sage-grouse Management Direction—Routt Greater Sage-grouse Management Direction—Routt 

NF 

Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest All 

Units (11020600) 

Completed 

19692 Invasive Plant Management EIS for the Medicine 

Bow—Routt NFs and Thunder Basin NG 

Medicine Bow-Routt National Forest All 

Units (11020600) 

Completed 

37026 Middle Bald Mountain Area Communication Site Canyon Lakes Ranger District (11021005) Completed 

41812 Pawnee National Grassland Oil and Gas Leasing 

Analysis 

Arapaho and Roosevelt National Forests 

All Units (11021000) 

Completed 

6719 Shoshone Forest Plan Revision Shoshone National Forest All Units 

(11021400) 

Completed 

40682 Vail Mountain Recreation Enhancements East Zone/Holy Cross Ranger District 

(11021507) 

Completed 

35945 Village at Wolf Creek Access Project Village at Wolf Creek Access Project Rio Grande National Forest All Units 

(11020900) 

Completed 

Region: R3—Southwestern Region (1103) 

Decision Doc Type: ROD 

NEPA Decision Signed Date Range: 10/01/2014 through 09/30/2015 

Project Simple Format 

Projects Found: 4 

27239 Apache-Sitgreaves NFs Revised Land & Resource 

Management Plan 

Apache-Sitgreaves National Forests All 

Units (11030100) 

Completed 

34857 Four-Forest Restoration Initiative EIS: Kaibab and 

Coconino 

Coconino National Forest All Units 

(11030400) 

Completed 

31102 Prescott National Forest Revision of Land and Resource Management Plan Prescott National Forest All Units 

(11030900) 

Completed 

10919 Special-Use Permits for Occupancy of Recreation 

Residences at Old Columbine and Turkey Flat, 

Safford 

Safford Ranger District (11030504) Completed 

Region: R4—Intermountain Region (1104) 

Decision Doc Type: ROD 

NEPA Decision Signed Date Range: 10/01/2014 through 09/30/2015 

Project Simple Format 

Projects Found: 8 

27442 Golden Hand #1 and #2 Lode Mining Claims Plan of Golden Hand #1 and #2 Lode Mining Claims Plan of 

Operations [81] Operations [81] 

Payette National Forest All Units 

(11041200) 

Completed 

38914 Greater Sage-grouse Management Direction— Greater Sage-grouse Management Direction— 

Bridger-Teton National Forest Bridger-Teton National Forest 

Bridger-Teton National Forest All Units 

(11040300) 

Completed 

38918 Greater Sage-grouse Management Direction—Hum Greater Sage-grouse Management Direction—Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest boldt-Toiyabe National Forest Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest All 

Units (11041700) 

Completed 

38922 Greater Sage-grouse Management Direction—Idaho Greater Sage-grouse Management Direction—Idaho R4—Intermountain Region All Units 

(11040000) 

Completed 

38915 Greater Sage-grouse Management Direction—Utah Greater Sage-grouse Management Direction—Utah R4—Intermountain Region All Units 

(11040000) 

Completed 

17068 Hooper Springs Transmission Line Soda Springs Ranger District (11041555) Completed 

42401 Panels F and G Lease and Mine Plan Modification 

Project at Smoky Canyon Mine 

Soda Springs Ranger District (11041555) Completed 

33793 Upper North Fork HFRA Ecosystem Restoration 

Project 

North Fork Ranger District (11041307) Completed 

Region: R5—Pacific Southwest Region (1105) 

Decision Doc Type: ROD 

NEPA Decision Signed Date Range: 10/01/2014 through 09/30/2015 

Project Simple Format 

Projects Found: 6 

28599 California Pacific Electricity Company 625 and 650 

Electrical Line Upgrade Project 

Lake Tahoe Basin Mgt Unit (11051900) Completed 

30324 Harris Vegetation Management Harris Vegetation Management McCloud Ranger District (11051461) Completed 

43163 Heavenly Epic Discovery Project Lake Tahoe Basin Mgt Unit (11051900) Completed 

45952 King Fire Restoration Eldorado National Forest All Units 

(11050300) 

Completed 

35130 Southern California National Forests Land Management Plan Amendment Cleveland National Forest All Units 

(11050200) 

Completed 

15504 Tule River Reservation Protection Project Western Divide Ranger District (11051352) Completed 

184 

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Project 

No. Project Name Lead Management Unit Overall NEPA Process Status 

Region: R6—Pacific Northwest Region (1106) 

Decision Doc Type: ROD 

NEPA Decision Signed Date Range: 10/01/2014 through 09/30/2015 

Project Simple Format 

Projects Found: 6 

34220 10C Designated Routes Project Siuslaw National Forest All Units 

(11061200) 

Completed 

38873 Bannon,Aeneas,Revis and Tunk—revised grazing allotment plan for 4 allotments. Tonasket Ranger District (11061709) Completed 

22404 D-Bug Hazard Reduction Timber Sale Project Diamond Lake Ranger District (11061503) Completed 

34208 Invasive Plant Management Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest All 

Units (11060500) 

Completed 

30717 Lower Imnaha Rangeland Analysis Hells Canyon NRA (11061604) Completed 

35614 Malheur National Forest Site-Specific Invasive Plants 

Treatment 

Malheur National Forest All Units 

(11060400) 

Completed 

Region: R8—Southern Region (1108) 

Decision Doc Type: ROD 

NEPA Decision Signed Date Range: 10/01/2014 through 09/30/2015 

Project Simple Format 

Projects Found: 2 

44310 Chester County Stream and Riparian Restoration/Enhancement Project Francis Marion and Sumter National Forest All Units (11081200) Completed 

31884 Revised Land and Resource Management Plan for the 

George Washington National Forest 

George Washington and Jefferson National 

Forest All Units (11080800) 

Completed 

Region: R10—Alaska Region (1110) 

Decision Doc Type: ROD 

NEPA Decision Signed Date Range: 10/01/2014 through 09/30/2015 

Project Simple Format 

Projects Found: 2 

14556 Navy Timber Sale Wrangell Ranger District (11100522) Completed 

23483 Resurrection Creek Restoration Phase II Seward Ranger District (11100430) Completed 

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1/8/2016: Based on data available in PALS and CARA 

This report shows all USFS Projects in FY 2015 that received at least one objection letter and a draft or a final decision exists (total 100). 

Project 

No. Project Name Region LMU Decision Name 

Decision 

Signed 

Date 

Decis. 

Type 

33238 Flint Foothills Vegetation 

Management Project 

1 Beaverhead-Deerlodge 

National Forest All 

Units (11010200) 

30894 Trapper Creek Vegetation 

Management 

1 Wise River Ranger District (11010202) Trapper Creek Vegetation 

Management Project 

12/01/2014 DN 

35069 Butte Highland Mine Haul 

Road 

1 Butte Ranger District 

(11010204) 

Butte Highland Mine Haul 

Road 

10/09/2015 DN 

25807 East Deer Lodge Valley 

Landscape Restoration 

Management 

1 Pintler Ranger District 

(11010208) 

East Deerlodge Valley Landscape Restoration Management Project 03/30/2015 ROD 

21183 Bitterroot National Forest 

Travel Management Planning 

1 Bitterroot National 

Forest All Units 

(11010300) 

36615 Darby Lumber Lands Watershed Improvement and 

Travel Management 

Project 

1 Darby Ranger District 

(11010302) 

Darby Lumber Lands Watershed Imp.and Travel Mgt. 

Project Decision Memo 

07/02/2015 DN 

33829 Como Forest Health Project 

(FHP) 

1 Darby Ranger District 

(11010302) 

Como Forest Health Project 

Record of Decision 

07/14/2015 ROD 

42483 Bottom Canyon Project 1 Fernan Ranger District 

(11010403) 

Bottom Canyon Project 08/11/2015 DN 

40785 Hellroaring 1 Bonners Ferry Ranger 

District (11010407) 

Decision Notice and FONSI 

for the Hellroaring Project 

08/04/2015 DN 

41368 Greater Red Lodge Vegetation and Habitat Management Project 1 Beartooth Ranger District (11010802) Greater Red Lodge Vegetation and Habitat Management Project 05/19/2015 ROD 

38754 Martin Creek Resource Management Project 1 Tally Lake Ranger District (11011008) Martin Creek Resource Management Project Decision 

Notice 

06/29/2015 DN 

27201 Gallatin Forest Plan Amendment to Remove or Replace 

Outdated Management Direction (Clean Up 

Amendmen 

1 Custer Gallatin National Forest All 

Units (11011100) 

Gallatin Forest Plan Amendment to Remove or Replace 

Outdated Management Direction (Clean Up 

Amendmen 

11/02/2015 DN 

185 

Project 

No. Project Name Region LMU Decision Name 

Decision 

Signed 

Date 

Decis. 

Type 

41100 Sweet Grass Integrated Resource Resiliency and Restoration 1 Yellowstone Ranger 

District (11011104) 

Sweetgrass Restoration and 

Resiliency Project 

05/21/2015 DN 

24091 Divide Travel Plan 1 Helena Ranger District 

(11011202) 

30355 Stonewall Vegetation Project 1 Lincoln Ranger District 

(11011204) 

11743 Montanore Project 1 Kootenai National Forest All Units 

(11011400) 

33676 Highwood Mountains Range 1 Judith Ranger District 

(11011504) 

Arrowhead Allotment DN 09/25/2015 DN 

33676 Highwood Mountains Range 1 Judith Ranger District 

(11011504) 

Highwood Allotment DN, 09/25/2015 DN 

33676 Highwood Mountains Range 1 Judith Ranger District 

(11011504) 

Little Belt Cr.,Martin 

Cr.,Shed Cr.,Thomas Corner & Yendrick Allotments 

DN 

09/25/2015 DN 

29614 Cedar-Thom 1 Superior Ranger District (11011607) Cedar-Thom 02/25/2015 ROD 

38021 Clear Creek Integrated Restoration Project 1 Nez Perce-Clearwater 

National Forest All 

Units (11011700) 

Clear Creek Integrated Restoration Project 12/17/2015 ROD 

40648 Crooked River Valley Rehabilitation Project 1 Nez Perce-Clearwater 

National Forest All 

Units (11011700) 

Crooked River Valley Rehabilitation—Final Record of 

Decision 

07/21/2015 ROD 

45758 Lower Orogrande 1 Nez Perce-Clearwater 

National Forest All 

Units (11011700) 

Lower Orogrande Record of 

Decision 

04/24/2015 ROD 

38517 Strychnine Pine 1 Palouse Ranger District 

(11011752) 

Decision Notice and Finding 

of No Significant Impact— 

Strychnine Pine 

04/13/2015 DN 

38515 Barnyard South Sheep 1 North Fork Ranger District (11011753) Barnyard South Sheep 07/08/2015 DN 

30774 Black Hills National Forest 

and Thunder Basin National Grasslands Power 

230 Kv Line 

2 Black Hills National 

Forest All Units 

(11020300) 

Teckla-Osage-Rapid City 230 

kV Transmission Line 

Project 

05/18/2015 ROD 

43154 Wilson Peak Land Exchange 2 Grand Mesa 

Uncompahgre and 

Gunnison National 

Forest All Units 

(11020400) 

Wilson Peak Land Exchange 09/03/2015 DN 

30090 Steamboat Front 2 Hahns Peak/Bears Ears 

Ranger District 

(11020603) 

Steamboat Front Hazardous 

Fuels Reduction Project 

10/01/2015 DN 

40812 Rangeland Management in 

the Whiskey Creek Analysis Area (formerly the 

Dudley Analysis Area). 

2 Hahns Peak/Bears Ears 

Ranger District 

(11020603) 

Rangeland Management in 

the Whiskey Creek analysis area 

07/30/2015 DN 

39610 Cain Creek Land Exchange 2 Nebraska National Forest All Units 

(11020700) 

Cain Creek Land Exchange 07/02/2015 DN 

35945 Village at Wolf Creek Access 

Project 

2 Rio Grande National 

Forest All Units 

(11020900) 

Final Record of Decision Village at Wolf Creek Access 

Project 

05/21/2015 ROD 

41812 Pawnee National Grassland 

Oil and Gas Leasing Analysis 

2 Arapaho and Roosevelt 

National Forests All 

Units (11021000) 

Decision for the Pawnee National Grassland Oil and 

Gas Leasing Analysis 

02/09/2015 ROD 

42285 Eldora Mountain Resort Ski 

Area Projects 

2 Boulder Ranger District (11021001) Eldora Mountain Resort Ski 

Area Projects 

10/01/2015 ROD 

18244 Colorado State Highway 7 

Recreation Improvements 

Plan 

2 Boulder Ranger District (11021001) 

41474 Cherokee Park Project 2 Canyon Lakes Ranger 

District (11021005) 

Decision Notice and Finding 

of No Significant Impact: 

Cherokee Park Project 

05/26/2015 DN 

37026 Middle Bald Mountain Area 

Communication Site 

2 Canyon Lakes Ranger 

District (11021005) 

Middle Bald Mountain Area 

Communication Site 

Record of Decision 

12/17/2014 ROD 

43000 Forest Health—Fosset Gulch/ 

Northern HDs Ecosystem 

Restoration Project 

2 Columbine Ranger District (11021308) Fosset Gulch/Northern HD’s 

Ecosystem Restoration 

Project 

01/05/2015 DN 

29938 White River National Forest 

Oil and Gas Leasing Environmental Impact Statement 

2 White River National 

Forest All Units 

(11021500) 

White River National Forest 

Oil and Gas Leasing Environmental Impact Statement 

12/03/2015 ROD 

42876 Larson Forest Restoration 

Project 

2 Black Mesa Ranger 

District (11030102) 

Larson Forest Restoration 

Project 

08/13/2015 DN 

34153 Magdalena Travel Management Project 3 Magdalena Ranger District (11030303) Magdalena Travel Management Project 09/30/2015 DN 

34857 Four-Forest Restoration Initiative EIS: Kaibab and 

Coconino 

3 Coconino National Forest All Units 

(11030400) 

Record of Decision for the 

Four-Forest Restoration 

Initiative 

04/17/2015 ROD 

186 

Project 

No. Project Name Region LMU Decision Name 

Decision 

Signed 

Date 

Decis. 

Type 

43534 Angell Grazing Alltoment 3 Flagstaff Ranger District (11030408) Angell Allotment Finding of 

No Significant Impact and 

Decision Notice 

11/20/2015 DN 

46027 Chino Small Grazing Allotments 3 Chino Valley Ranger 

District (11030901) 

Hitt Wash Grazing Allotment 

Management 

09/29/2015 DN 

46027 Chino Small Grazing Allotments 3 Chino Valley Ranger 

District (11030901) 

Old Camp Grazing Allotment 

Management 

09/29/2015 DN 

46027 Chino Small Grazing Allotments 3 Chino Valley Ranger 

District (11030901) 

Quartz Wash Grazing Allotment Management 09/29/2015 DN 

46027 Chino Small Grazing Allotments 3 Chino Valley Ranger 

District (11030901) 

Yolo South Grazing Allotment Management 09/29/2015 DN 

44049 Bighorn Sheep Population 

Management Project 

3 Tonto National Forest 

All Units (11031200) 

33162 Labarge Vegetation Restoration 4 Kemmerer Ranger District (11040301) LaBarge Vegetation Restoration Project 12/14/2015 DN 

40734 West Slope Wildland-Urban 

Interface Hazardous Fuels 

Reduction Project 

4 Moab Ranger District 

(11041004) 

West Slope Wildland Urban 

Interface Hazardous Fuels 

Reduction Project 

05/08/2015 DN 

40313 North Elk Ridge Forest 

Health Project 

4 Monticello Ranger District (11041005) North Elk Ridge Forest 

Health Project 

11/18/2014 DN 

34565 La Sal Mines Complex 4 Monticello Ranger District (11041005) 

29417 Thompson Creek Modified 

Plan of Operations for 

Mine Expansion 

4 Challis-Yankee Fork 

Ranger District 

(11041302) 

46552 Hughes Creek #2 Placer 

Testing 

4 North Fork Ranger District (11041307) Hughes Creek Placer Project 

#2 

11/04/2015 DN 

40683 Greater Sage Grouse Bi-State 

Distinct Population Segment Forest Plan Amendment 

4 Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest All 

Units (11041700) 

38743 Lake Morena Community Defense Project 5 Descanso Ranger District (11050254) Lake Morena Community Defense 01/09/2015 DN 

31457 Lava Hazardous Fuels Reduction Project 5 Big Valley Ranger District (11050954) 

25380 Westside Plantation Project 5 Shasta Trinity National 

Forest All Units 

(11051400) 

Westside Plantation Project 

Decision Notice 

02/19/2015 DN 

42264 Parks-Eddy Watershed Restoration 5 Mt. Shasta Ranger District (11051459) Decision Notice Parks Eddy 

Watershed Restoration 

Project 

12/19/2014 DN 

30324 Harris Vegetation Management 5 McCloud Ranger District (11051461) Harris Vegetation Management Project 11/13/2014 ROD 

37551 Incline Lake Dam Project 5 Lake Tahoe Basin Mgt 

Unit (11051900) 

Incline Lake Dam Project 01/02/2015 DN 

28599 California Pacific Electricity 

Company 625 and 650 

Electrical Line Upgrade 

Project 

5 Lake Tahoe Basin Mgt 

Unit (11051900) 

California Pacific Electricity 

Company 625 and 650 

Electrical Line Upgrade 

Project 

07/22/2015 ROD 

30232 Newberry Geothermal Consent to Lease Project 6 Bend/Fort Rock Ranger 

District (11060101) 

Newberry Geothermal Consent to Lease Project 10/09/2014 DN 

30232 Newberry Geothermal Consent to Lease Project 6 Bend/Fort Rock Ranger 

District (11060101) 

Newberry Geothermal Consent to Lease Project Decision Notice 10/10/2014 DN 

32816 Junction Vegetation Management Project 6 Bend/Fort Rock Ranger 

District (11060101) 

Junction Vegetation Management Decision Notice 06/30/2015 DN 

38724 Sisters Community Trails 6 Sisters Ranger District 

(11060105) 

43246 Antelope Grazing Allotments 

AMP 

6 Chemult Ranger District (11060211) Sagebrush Draw Drift Fence 

Jamison Meadow Range 

Fence and N Moffat Fence 

05/23/2014 DM 

38013 Bluejay Vegetation Restoration Project 6 Chiloquin Ranger District (11060212) Bluejay Vegetation Management Project 05/20/2015 DN 

31895 Yamsi Grazing Allotment 6 Chiloquin Ranger District (11060212) 

35614 Malheur National Forest 

Site-Specific Invasive 

Plants Treatment 

6 Malheur National Forest All Units 

(11060400) 

Malheur National Forest 

Site-Specific Invasive 

Plants Treatment 

09/11/2015 ROD 

41022 Big Mosquito 6 Blue Mountain Ranger 

District (11060401) 

Big Mosquito Project Decision Notice and Finding of 

No Significant Impact 

DN 

42301 Wolf Project 6 Emigrant Creek Ranger District 

(11060402) 

Decision Notice for Wolf 

Vegetation Management 

Project EA 

07/23/2015 DN 

32129 Elk 16 6 Prairie City Ranger 

District (11060404) 

Final Decision Notice and 

Finding of No Significant 

Impact 

09/14/2015 DN 

37320 Grove Thin 6 Clackamas River Ranger District 

(11060605) 

Grove Thinning 10/20/2014 DN 

40686 Lava Restoration 6 Hood River Ranger District (11060606) Lava Restoration Final Decision Notice and Finding of 

No Significant Impact 

04/29/2015 DN 

43665 North Fork Mill Creek Revised 6 Hood River Ranger District (11060606) North Fork Mill Creek Revised Decision Notice 01/16/2015 DN 

187 

Project 

No. Project Name Region LMU Decision Name 

Decision 

Signed 

Date 

Decis. 

Type 

41044 Queets Vegetation Management 6 Pacific Ranger District 

South (11060903) 

Queets Vegetation Management 09/18/2015 DN 

34220 10C Designated Routes 

Project 

6 Siuslaw National Forest All Units 

(11061200) 

Oregon Dunes NRA Designated Routes Record of 

Decision 

01/29/2015 ROD 

40473 Millwright Beaver Landscape 

Management Project 

6 Central Coast Ranger 

District/Oregon 

Dunes National 

Recreation Area 

(11061208) 

Millwright-Beaver Landscape 

Management Project—Covered by ARBO II 

08/29/2014 DN 

40473 Millwright Beaver Landscape 

Management Project 

6 Central Coast Ranger 

District/Oregon 

Dunes National 

Recreation Area 

(11061208) 

Millwright-Beaver Landscape 

Management Project—No 

Effect on Coho Salmon 

08/29/2014 DN 

36365 Loafer Timber Sale Project 6 Diamond Lake Ranger 

District (11061503) 

Decision Notice and FONSI 

for the Loafer Timber Sale 

Project EA 

05/08/2013 DN 

30717 Lower Imnaha Rangeland 

Analysis 

6 Hells Canyon NRA 

(11061604) 

Lower Imnaha Rangeland 

Analysis 

09/03/2015 ROD 

43087 Annie Restoration (AR) 

Project 

6 Tonasket Ranger District (11061709) Annie Restoration Project 07/30/2015 DN 

43264 Cool Soda 6 Sweet Home Ranger 

District (11061803) 

Cool Soda 05/15/2015 DN 

38487 Buck Tule 6 Detroit Ranger District 

(11061804) 

Final Decision Notice/Finding 

of No Significant Impact 

Buck Tule Project 

07/31/2015 DN 

41515 Renshaw Vegetation Management Project EA 6 Sullivan Lake Ranger 

District (11062105) 

Renshaw Vegetation Management Project 04/14/2015 DN 

42153 Deer Jasper Restoration 

Project 

6 Three Rivers Ranger 

District (11062112) 

Deer Jasper Restoration 

Project Environmental Assessment 

11/06/2014 DN 

43562 Road/trail decommissioning 

and trail seasonal closures 

8 Conasauga Ranger District (11080301) Road/Trail Decommissioning 

and Seasonal Closure 

Project 

06/12/2015 DN 

30460 Camp Livingston Ecosystem 

Management Project 

8 Catahoula Ranger District (11080601) Camp Livingston Ecosystem 

Management Project 

08/04/2015 DN 

42925 Gilmore Hollow Vegetation 

Project 

8 Glenwood and Pedlar 

Ranger Districts 

(11080813) 

Gilmore Hollow Vegetation 

Project 

11/16/2015 DN 

41170 Three Knob Project 8 Bayou Ranger District 

(11081003) 

Three Knob Project 01/06/2015 DN 

44803 Laurel Creek Property Owners Association Access 

Across National Forest 

System Lands 

8 National Forests In 

North Carolina All 

Units (11081100) 

44038 Compartment 112 Longleaf 

Pine Restoration Project 

8 Sam Houston Ranger 

District (11081304) 

DN/FONSI Compartment 112 

Longleaf Pine Restoration 

Project 

06/23/2015 DN 

42945 Gardner Land-for-Land Exchange 9 Mio Ranger District 

(11090405) 

Decision Notice & FONSI for 

Gardner Land-for-Land Exchange 

07/12/2015 DN 

42975 Red Pine Thinning Project 9 Ottawa National Forest 

All Units (11090700) 

Red Pine Thinning Project 

Decision Notice 

12/05/2014 DN 

41909 Windy Project 9 Tofte Ranger District 

(11090907) 

Windy Project Decision Notice and Finding of No Significant Impact 03/20/2015 DN 

45711 Wood Bison Project—Supplemental EA 10 Glacier Ranger District 

(11100410) 

Wood Bison Project Supplemental EA 04/10/2015 DN 

23483 Resurrection Creek Restoration Phase II 10 Seward Ranger District 

(11100430) 

Resurrection Creek Phase 

II:Stream Restoration & 

Hope Mining Co Plan of 

Ops 

07/30/2015 ROD 

45109 Anan Floating Dock 10 Wrangell Ranger District (11100522) Anan Wildlife Observatory 

Floating Dock and Trail 

Safety Improvements 

05/08/2015 DN 

14556 Navy Timber Sale 10 Wrangell Ranger District (11100522) Navy Timber Sale Record Of 

Decision 

08/11/2015 ROD 

37050 Mendenhall Glacier Recreation Area Planning 10 Juneau Ranger District 

(11100533) 

Final DN and FONSI MGRA 

Plan Revision for Commercial Services 

07/06/2015 DN 

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