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What are you planning on the Umatilla?

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

How it works

From the first chat to the finished scoping letter in the Umatilla'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 Umatilla'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 Umatilla 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

Umatilla 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 Umatilla'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 Umatilla's format

Project: !a post-fire fuel break

Prepared by ✎preparer · ✎date

Letterhead and district

This scoping letter in the Umatilla's format covers !a post-fire fuel break 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? ?Heppner (Oregon).

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 Umatilla's format.

Modeled on Recent Umatilla NF scoping letters

13projects listed on the Umatilla National Forest's projects page on Nov 13, 2026, from a snow shelter move and a cabin water tank to the Blue Mountains plan revision. USDA Forest Service, Umatilla National Forest

Questions

Umatilla National Forest: questions

What are the Umatilla's ranger districts?

Four, in two states: Heppner and North Fork John Day (Ukiah) in Oregon, and Pomeroy and Walla Walla in Washington. The headquarters is at 72510 Coyote Road, Pendleton, Oregon.

Source: fs.usda.gov

Which plan governs the Umatilla?

The 1990 Umatilla Forest Land and Resource Management Plan, as amended. The planning page lists amendments from 1991 on, such as the 1993 North Fork John Day and Grande Ronde wild and scenic river decisions and the 1994 Eastside interim direction.

Source: fs.usda.gov

What projects are on the Umatilla now?

The forest lists 13, including the 54 North, Battle Bruin and Mottet vegetation projects, the Ellis EIS, Winter Wind salvage, post-fire CEs for the Lone Rock and Zulu areas, and the Mt. Misery snow shelter move.

Source: fs.usda.gov

Is the Umatilla's forest plan being revised?

Yes. The Blue Mountains Forest Plan Revision covers the Malheur, Umatilla and Wallowa-Whitman, about 4.9 million acres, with an EIS. NEPA started Aug 5, 2025; the page expects a decision in Aug 2027 (estimated).

Source: fs.usda.gov

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