Forest Service axes long anticipated Swan Valley project
An employee walks into the U.S. Forest Service Flathead National Forest Supervisor's Office on Wolfpack Way in Kalispell on Wednesday, Oct. 1. (Casey Kreider/Daily Inter Lake)
Casey Kreider
Flathead National Forest withdrew an ambitious landscape restoration plan for the Swan Valley last week, prompting concerns that the U.S. Forest Service is shutting the public out of decision-making processes.
First proposed in 2018, the Mid-Swan Landscape Restoration and Wildland Urban Interface Project spanned nearly 175,000 acres in the Swan Lake Ranger District of Flathead National Forest. The plan would have authorized up to 40,627 acres of commercial timber harvest and 77,772 of non-commercial forest treatments over the course of 15 years.
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