Ashland 2025 SOS EA Comments Close 6/23/25

Written By Applegate Partnership

We’re not sure how closely you’ve been following the BLM’s proposal to remove dead and dying trees, but we wanted to flag that public comments on the Ashland 2025 Strategic Operations for Safety (SOS) Environmental Assessment (EA) are due by June 23.

To help the community better understand the proposal, an Applegate Valley landowner, Mark Hamlin, has created a summary of the 312-page EA, titled “Summary of the Ashland 2025 SOS EA.” It’s much more accessible and easier to digest. He’s also written a companion piece, “The Impact of Dead and Dying Trees on Wildfire Behavior,” which dives deeper into recent fire science and explains how climate change is driving a new wildfire regime. Both of these documents share the scientific literature referenced.

The BLM welcomes public input, and if you’re inclined to comment, we encourage you to review Alternative 2: Area and Linear Treatments and Alternative 3: Linear Treatments only. We do not feel as an organization that Alternative 1: No Action is viable.

  • Alternative 3 limits treatments to roadsides only.

  • Alternative 1 (No Action) leaves the current fire risk unaddressed.

To comment:
Visit the Ashland 2025 SOS EA page and click the green “Participate Now” button to submit your comments. NEPA Number: DOI-BLM-ORWA-M060-2025-0001-EA

Feel free to share these documents with others—they’re meant to inform and engage the community. If you have any questions please contact us.

Thanks for taking the time to consider this important issue.

Applegate Partnership

The Applegate Partnership & Watershed Council is a community-based non-profit organization whose mission is “to promote ecosystem health across the Applegate watershed through stewardship, education and restoration carried out in partnership with landowners, agencies and other interested parties while contributing to local economic and community well-being.”

https://applegatepartnership.org
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