Midnight Project – Twisp River Project, ONF – Updated May 2025
Midnight Project encompasses an affected area of 53,009 acres of which there is slated prescribed fire. Commercial logging will occur on 28,237 acres. The environmental effects include logging trees up to 25” dbh, damaging stands of mature and old-growth (MOG) trees, eliminating snags, spreading invasive species, degrading riparian areas, compromising unique habitats, severing vital wildlife corridors, and potentially displacing, disturbing, or killing sensitive, threatened, and endangered species, including Canada lynx, grizzly bears, wolverine, whitebark pine, goshawks, wolves, woodpeckers, and bats. This project is less about restoring historic conditions than about restoring a timber cut.
Status: Final EA and draft Decision Document/Finding of no Significant Impact expected: 09/2025. KRCG filed comments in May 2024, no further action.
