Hi PNWFCA Folks,

Please take a few minutes to submit comments on the Blue Mountains Forest Plan Revision!

The Forest Service has begun the process of revising Forest Plans for the Malheur, Umatilla, and Wallowa-Whitman National Forests in the Blue Mountains, encompassing approximately five million acres in eastern Oregon and southeastern Washington.

These Forest Plans guide nearly every aspect of forest management, and will have lasting implications for the climate, biodiversity, and clean water for generations to come.

This short video The Blues: Eastern Oregon's Forests at a Crossroads about the Blue Mountains and the Forest Plan revisions is a great intro to this spectacular region, and will help folks understand some of the issues this landscape is facing. Please check it out and share it as widely as possible! (Special thanks to Ephraim Payne and Michael Sherman at Fire + Bird films). Amplifying the video, along BMBP's action alert, would be a huge help. 

The video is also on BMBP's Instagram and on bluesky, if you want to share there. 

Widespread public pressure during the Plan Revision process is essential. Regardless of where you live, please speak up on behalf of these forests. 

It’s urgent that the Forest Service hears from you! 

• The Forest Service needs to hear that the public wants strong protections for forests– and opposes rolling back or weakening existing protections, as is currently proposed. 
• Tell the Forest Service to include strong, enforceable, and mandatory standards that protect wildlife, clean water, carbon, and ecosystem integrity in the Blue Mountains Forest Plan Revision. 
• We need strong standards to protect forests, not more logging! 

You can see our full action alert, with talking points and more information, here on our website. 

Comments are due October 6th, 2025 at 11:59pm PST 
You can submit online comments on the Forest Service’s online portal: https://cara.fs2c.usda.gov/Public/CommentInput?Project=64157  
Emails can also be sent to: [email protected]

Thanks everyone! 

Paula