Kootenai National Forest

The following documents are published by the Kootenai National Forest. While many of these documents are also found on other pages on our website, they have been linked here for ease of use. The NEPA Project documents are found in respective projects on the Forest Projects webpage.

NEPA Quarterly Reports

Four times a year, the Kootenai publishes a quarterly Schedule of Proposed Actions (SOPA) which provides project information, status, and contacts. These documents are available in Adobe® PDF format which requires the free viewer.

• Latest Report
• Fall 2004 Quarterly Report - 1mb
• June 2004 Quarterly Report - 1.1mb view map
• March 2004 Quarterly Report - 1.3mb view map
• December 2003 Quarterly Report - 548k view map
• September 2003 Quarterly Report - 834k view map
• June 2003 Quarterly Report - 764k view map
• March 2003 Quarterly Report - 764k view map
• December 2002 Quarterly Report - 804k view map
• September 2002 Quarterly Report - 841k
• June 2002 Quarterly Report - 816k
• March 2002 Quarterly Report - 585k
• December 2001 Quarterly Report - 362k
• September 2001 Quarterly Report - 262k
• June 2001 Quarterly Report - 262k
• March 2001 Quarterly Report - 264k
• December 2000 Quarterly Report - 1.06MB
• September 2000 Quarterly Report - 221k
• June 2000 Quarterly Report - 767k
• March 2000 Quarterly Report - 268k
• December 1999 Quarterly Report - 268k
• September 1999 Quarterly Report - 258k
• June 1999 Quarterly Report - 144k

Planning

• KNF Social Assessment: 2003 Update
• Analysis of the Management Situation (AMS) for Revision of the Kootenai and Idaho Panhandle Forest Plans - March 2003
• Forest Plan Revision News - 05/02 - (PDF | 358k)
• 2000 Major Fires Assessment
• 1987 Forest Plan
• Summary of Amendments and Modifications - (PDF | 87k)
• VRU Characterizations and Target Landscape Prescriptions

Forest Plan Monitoring Reports

• FY 2007 Report - 2MB
• FY 2006 Report - 1.1MB
• FY 2005 Report - 1.4MB
• FY 2004 Report - 4.1MB
• FY 2003 Report - 1.1MB
• FY 2002 Full Report - 2.5MB
• FY 2001 Summary - 348k
• FY 2001 Full Report - 3.5MB
• FY 2000 Summary - 253k
• FY 2000 Full Report - 1.01MB
• FY 1999 Summary - 179k
• FY 1999 Full Report - 915k
• FY 1998 Full Report - 584k
• FY 1998 Summary - 120k
• FY 1997 and Ten Year Review Summary - 193k
• FY 1997 Full Report (includes summary of past 10 years) - 7,594k
• FY 1996 Summary - 31k
• FY 1995 Full Report - 156k
• FY 1995 Summary - 34k
• FY 1996 Full Report - 5,770k
• FY 1993-94 Summary - 16k
• FY 1993-94 Full Report - 2,517k
• FY 1992 and Five Year Review Summary - 38k
• FY 1992 Full Report - 5,260k
• FY 1991 Summary - 81k
• FY 1991 Full Report - 2,647k
• FY 1990 Summary - 78k
• FY 1990 Full Report - 2,723k
• FY 1988-89 Full Report - 8,529k

Lands Reports

The is the Kootenai National Forest Residential Access Policy, Effective March 17, 2003. This policy provides direction of granting access across National Forest System lands within the Kootenai National Forest. This document is available in Adobe® PDF format which requires the free viewer.

Kootenai National Forest Residential Access Policy - 305k

Soil Survey of Kootenai National Forest Area, Montana and Idaho

Authors: Louis J. Kuennen and Marci L. Nielsen-Gerhardt. Issued September 1995

This soil survey was made by the Forest Service and the Natural Resources Conservation Service in cooperation with the Montana Agricultural Experiment Station. The survey area covers the extreme northwestern part of Montana, along with a small part of northern Idaho. It includes all of the Kootenai National Forest and the eastern part of the Kaniksu National Forest, which is administered by the Kootenai National Forest. The total area of the survey is 2,975,597 acres and includes the Clark Fork and Kootenai River drainages. The document is 242 pages in length, including topographic soil survey maps.

• Soil Survey of Kootenai National Forest Area, Montana and Idaho - (pdf | 27mb)