Dear Reader,
Signing of DR#4
February 10, 2026 - The Grants Pass Field Office issued Decision Record #4 - King Graves timber sale.
Signing of Erratum
February 9, 2026 - The Grants Pass Field Office issued an Erratum to DR#2 to clarify acreage data calculations.
Signing of DR#3
August 13, 2025 - The BLM Grants Pass Field Office has Signed the following:
Signing of the Revised EA, FONSI, DR#1, & DR#2
May 12, 2025 – The BLM Grants Pass Field Office has finalized the Last Chance Forest Management Project (LCFMP) Revised Environmental Assessment (REA). The REA includes updates based on public comments received during the Revised EA comment period, which opened on March 14, 2025 and concluded on March 28, 2025.
The revised document addresses additional issues and incorporates new and updated information, clearer language, and responses to public input. Additions to the EA are identified in blue font.
An updated Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) has been issued alongside two separate Decision Records:
Revised EA Public Comment Period
March 14, 2025: The BLM Grants Pass Field Office has released a revised Last Chance Forest Management Project (LCFMP) Environment Assessment (EA) and Appendices. The updated EA contains revisions to the 2022 LCFMP EA. BLM signed the first Decision Record from this EA September 10, 2024. The BLM's revised LCFMP EA incorporates additional issues and new information, updated information, language to improve clarity, and responses to public input. BLM has identified additions to the EA using (blue colored font). The BLM is seeking public comments on the revisions in blue font in the Revised LCFMP EA. Please submit comments by March 28, 2025.
Completed Public Scoping
The Grants Pass Field Office mailed public scoping letters in December of 2020 to adjacent landowners, permittees, agencies, and other interested citizens. The BLM received five comments during the 30-day scoping period. On July 15, 2021, public scoping letters were sent to interested mining claimants, and no comments were received. In August of 2022 the Rum Creek Fire ignited via lightning strike in the northwestern portion of the Grants Pass Field office. This fire did not burn within the footprint of the Last Chance Forest Management Project. However, the project’s development was put on hold while the BLM worked to manage the fire and conduct post-fire Emergency Stabilization and Rehabilitation (ESR). In January of 2023 the planning of the Last Chance Forest Management project resumed. On February 22, 2023, scoping letters were sent to tribal governments including the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua, Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, and the Confederated Tribes of the Siletz Indians, and no comments were received. Although no complete alternatives were received by the public during the scoping period, elements of alternatives were submitted, and many were included as part of the developed alternatives.
