Abstract:
In January 2013, the Pacific Northwest Region of the Forest Service initiated the Eastside Restoration
Strategy to improve forest health conditions by accelerating the pace and scale of restoration on
national forests in eastern Oregon and Washington. As part of this effort, the Region created a dedicated
interdisciplinary (ID) Blue Mountains Restoration Strategy team to conduct landscape-level planning
across three national forests and innovate strategies to more effectively reach planning decisions. The
team worked on two NEPA processes: a 100,000-acre project on one forest, and 600,000 acres of dry
forest restoration activities across three forests. In 2016, the Forest Service requested a review to identify
transferrable insights from the project.