Interagency Timeline
Activities Related to the Northwest Forest Plan

An interagency planning timeline (text list and graphical display) was originally distributed to the IAC during the August 17, 2005 field trip.  Since that time, the dates and events have been updated several times, and most recently as of August 15, 2006. The updates have been included in the following table and the attached PowerPoint file

Project:

Agency

Purpose/Description &/or Web Link

Key Dates:

Revised Bull Trout (BT) I  & II Critical Habitat Designation

FWS

Columbia & Klamath Basin populations; Coastal-Puget Sound population pacific.fws.gov/bulltrout

Final CH designated 09/26/05 (All Populations)

FS Land Management Plans (LMP)

FS

 

  2007-2010 – Okanogan/Wenatchee/Colville
  2004-2007 – Wallowa Whitman/Umatilla/Malheur
  2006-2009 – Fremont/Winema
 

Bull Trout (BT) 5-year Status Review

FWS

All listed bull trout populations

Review Initiated: 4/13/04
  Request for information: 4/13/04 – 1/3/05
Review Complete date:  unknown

Bull Trout Recovery Plan FWS

www.fws.gov/pacific/ bulltrout/recovery.html

Draft -
  Columbia & Klamath Basin DPS': 11/02
Coastal-Puget Sound DPS: 07/04
Final - Unknown

Fisher Conservation Assessment & Strategy

Interagency

 

Draft Assessment: 09/06
Draft Strategy: 11/06
Final Assessment & Strategy: 06/07

Northern Spotted Owl (NSO) Recovery Plan FWS www.fws.gov/pacific/ ecoservices/endangered/recovery/ NSORecoveryPlanning.htm Draft NSO Recovery Plan Publish Date: unknown
Final NSO Recovery Plan Publish Date: unknown

Northern Spotted Owl (NSO) Critical Habitat Designation

FWS

Revise 1992 critical habitat designation

Proposed Rule: 12/15/06 extended
  Final rule: 12/15/07 extended

Draft/Final Salmon Recovery Plans

NOAA

www.nwr.noaa.gov

Lower Columbia (Washington) – Draft 4/20/05; Final 12/06
Shared Strategy (Puget Sound) – Draft 09/05; Final 12/05
Oregon Coast – Not scheduled; 10/06
Upper Columbia – Draft 12/05; Final 12/06
Snake River (Washington) – Draft 12/05; Final 12/06
Yakima – Draft 12/05; Final 12/06
Lake Ozette – Draft 12/05; Final 12/06
Hood Canal – Draft 12/05; Final 12/06

Marbled Murrelet (MM) Critical Habitat Designation

FWS

Revise 1996 critical habitat designation

Proposed revised CH: 09/06
  Final revised CH: 08/07

West Coast Salmon & Steelhead (SS) Final Status Review

NOAA

 

Pending; may be completed

West Coast Salmon & Steelhead (SS) Critical Habitat Final Designation

NOAA

www.nwr.noaa.gov/ 1salmon/salmesa/crithab/ CHsite.htm

Publication for pubic review by 8/15/05 of ESUs on the list of T&E species; this effort does not include several fish.

BLM Western Oregon Plan Revisions (WOPR)

BLM

 

Formal Scoping: 08-09/05
  Planning Criteria released 12/05
  Proposed RMP & Draft EIS released 3/07
  Comment Period 4/07 & 6/07
  Preferred RMP & Final EIS released 11/07
  ROD Published 03/08
Implementation begins 04/08

Survey & Manage (S&M) Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) FS/BLM www.reo.gov/s-m2006 Draft SEIS expected publish date/90-day comment period 06/30/06
Final SEIS expected publish date - mid- to late 12/06
Record of Decision (ROD) signature target 03/31/07

(Reference REO memo #2126).