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What are you planning on the Klamath?

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

How it works

From the first chat to the finished scoping letter in the Klamath'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 Klamath'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 Klamath National Forest

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

On the forest now

Klamath 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 Klamath'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 Klamath's format

Project: !a fiber line along a highway

Prepared by ✎preparer · ✎date

Letterhead and district

This scoping letter in the Klamath's format covers !a fiber line along a highway 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? ?Goosenest and Butte Valley National Grassland (Macdoel).

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 Klamath's format.

Modeled on Recent Klamath NF scoping letters

13projects listed on the Klamath National Forest's projects page on Nov 13, 2026, from fiber optic lines and a water district pumphouse to a joint prescribed fire EA. USDA Forest Service, Klamath National Forest

Questions

Klamath National Forest: questions

What are the Klamath's ranger districts?

Three: Goosenest in Macdoel, which also runs the Butte Valley National Grassland; Happy Camp/Oak Knoll in Happy Camp; and Salmon/Scott River in Fort Jones. The Supervisor's Office is at 1711 South Main Street, Yreka.

Source: fs.usda.gov

Which plan governs the Klamath?

The Klamath National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan, in effect since 1995 and amended several times; the forest posts a 2010 update. It guides management until the plan is revised.

Source: fs.usda.gov

What projects are on the Klamath now?

The forest lists 13: American Dark Fiber and Cal-Ore fiber lines, the Callahan Water District permit, Windler Bar salmon habitat, the McKinney Fire, Seiad and South Fork fuels projects, the Discovery Day Mine, and a prescribed fire EA with the Shasta-Trinity.

Source: fs.usda.gov

Which CE covers the Klamath's fiber optic permits?

USDA-28d-USFS, the 7 CFR 1b.4(d)(28) category for special uses that need less than 20 acres. American Dark Fiber's Route 97 line, about 23,000 feet of cable ending at Macdoel, was signed under it on Nov 2, 2026 on the Goosenest district.

Source: fs.usda.gov

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