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What are you planning on the Deschutes?

Describe the project and attach what you have. ePlan drafts the scoping letter in the Deschutes's format and finds the rest.

How it works

From the first chat to the finished scoping letter in the Deschutes's format.

A chat: the project and an attached file, and ePlan's answer with the project's context and the documents it can draft.

The scoping letter in the Deschutes's format as a draft, section by section, with highlights to check, pick and fill in.

A six-week plan: the tasks, which are done, and when each one is due.

The people the project is shared with, a comment thread on one section, and recent changes.

From public records

Documented projects on the Deschutes National Forest

2 real projects from USDA Forest Service records: what each did, the documents it published and the rules it used.

On the forest now

Deschutes National Forest projects

From the forest's projects pages, checked November 13, 2026. Start one like it and the draft follows the forest's format.

What you get

Scoping letter in the Deschutes's format, section by section

An example draft. In yours, ePlan fills in what your files and public data say, and highlights the rest.

  • Check: a fact to confirm5
  • Pick one: choose from the options1
  • Fill in: a detail only you have5
Draft 1

Scoping letter in the Deschutes's format

Project: !a recreation residence rebuild

Prepared by ✎preparer · ✎date

Letterhead and district

This scoping letter in the Deschutes's format covers !a recreation residence rebuild and the reasons for it, set out in the order the reviewing office expects.

Project, location and map

The site is shown on the attached map. The work area covers !the area measured from the map.

Purpose and need

The project is needed because ✎the problem it addresses, in one sentence. Its purpose is to !the outcome described in your files.

Proposed action

The work includes ✎each activity, with its size, method and equipment. Access, staging and timing are described below.

Design criteria

These measures apply for the whole project: ✎each measure, who carries it out and when. They follow 7 CFR 1b.4.

NEPA path

The criteria in 7 CFR 1b.4 turn on one question. Which ranger district? ?Bend-Fort Rock (Bend).

How to comment

The people to inform are listed with how and when they hear about it: !who to notify and how. Their responses are kept with this scoping letter in the Deschutes's format.

Modeled on Recent Deschutes NF scoping letters

14projects listed on the Deschutes National Forest's projects page on Nov 13, 2026, from recreation residence rebuilds to a geothermal lease and forest restoration EAs. USDA Forest Service, Deschutes National Forest

Questions

Deschutes National Forest: questions

What are the Deschutes's ranger districts?

Three: Bend-Fort Rock in Bend, Crescent, and Sisters. The forest headquarters shares the Bend-Fort Rock address, 63095 Deschutes Market Road, Bend, Oregon.

Source: fs.usda.gov

Which plan governs the Deschutes?

The Deschutes National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan, whose Record of Decision was signed in August 1990, as amended. The forest also lists large-area direction: the Northwest Forest Plan, the 1994 and 1995 Eastside Screens, the 1995 Inland Native Fish Strategy and the 1994 Newberry National Volcanic Monument plan.

Source: fs.usda.gov

What projects are on the Deschutes now?

The forest lists 14, including the Crate EA with a site-specific plan amendment, Akawa Butte fire recovery, the City of Bend Outback Site conveyance, consent to a Newberry geothermal lease, and recreation residence projects at Crescent and Odell lakes.

Source: fs.usda.gov

Which CE covers a Crescent Lake recreation residence rebuild?

USDA-28d-USFS, the 7 CFR 1b.4(d)(28) category for special uses that need less than 20 acres of National Forest System land. The Crescent district signed the Crescent Lake 25 rebuild under it on Oct 14, 2026.

Source: fs.usda.gov

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