After two years of collaborative effort, three organizations have challenged the Record of Decision for the Lost Creek-Boulder Creek Restoration Project.

The bottom line for the 4FRI contractor is acres - "acres in production and acres restored".  What acres matter to stakeholders?  Not every forest will have a 600,000 acres EIS, the 4FRI scale.  How many acres should matter?

Three recent documents could be interpreted as report cards on the progress of forest restoration on federal public lands:

Chief Tidwell visited Idaho shortly after the publication of the agency's Five Year Report to Congress on the Collaborative Forest Restoration Program (CFLRP).  His assessment: the track record justifies collaboration as the norm for the agency.

Following two years of public hearings and deliberations, the Federal Lands Interim Committee submitted their report to the Sixty-third Session of the Idaho Legislature.

Idaho's Legislature authorized a Federal Lands Interim Committee in 2013, and tasked the members to complete a study on the process to transfer title and control of federal public lands to the state.  After two years of work, the Committee submitted its report to the Legislature on January 20, 2015.