Environmental Assessment Developing Proposal

Emergency Actions and Closure Orders

National Forests in Alabama Abbeville; Acadia; Adair; Adams; Adjuntas; Aguada; Aguadilla; Aguas Buenas; Aibonito; Aiken; Alachua; Alamance; Albemarle; Alcorn; Alexander; Alleghany; Allen; Allendale; Amelia; Amherst; Amite; Añasco; Anderson; Angelina; Anson; Appling; Appomattox; Archer; Arecibo; Arkansas; Arroyo; Ascension; Ashe; Ashley; Assumption; Atkinson; Atoka; Attala; Augusta; Autauga; Avery; Avoyelles; Bacon; Baker; Baldwin; Bamberg; Banks; Barbour; Barceloneta; Barnwell; Barranquitas; Barren; Barrow; Bartow; Bath; Baxter; Bay; Bayamón; Beaufort; Beauregard; Bedford; Bell; Ben Hill; Benton; Berkeley; Berrien; Bertie; Bibb; Bienville; Bladen; Bland; Bleckley; Bledsoe; Blount; Bolivar; Boone; Bosque; Bossier; Botetourt; Bourbon; Bowie; Boyd; Boyle; Bracken; Bradford; Bradley; Brantley; Brazoria; Brazos; Breathitt; Breckinridge; Brevard; Bristol; Brooks; Broward; Brown; Brunswick; Bryan; Buchanan; Buckingham; Buena Vista; Bullitt; Bulloch; Bullock; Buncombe; Burke; Butler; Butts; Cabarrus; Cabo Rojo; Caddo; Caguas; Calcasieu; Caldwell; Calhoun; Calloway; Camden; Cameron; Camp; Campbell; Camuy; Candler; Cannon; Canóvanas; Carlisle; Carolina; Caroline; Carroll; Carter; Carteret; Casey; Cass; Caswell; Catahoula; Cataño; Catawba; Catoosa; Cayey; Ceiba; Chambers; Charles; Charles City; Charleston; Charlotte; Charlottesville; Charlton; Chatham; Chattahoochee; Chattooga; Cheatham; Cherokee; Chesapeake; Chester; Chesterfield; Chickasaw; Chicot; Chilton; Choctaw; Chowan; Christian; Ciales; Cidra; Citrus; Claiborne; Clarendon; Clark; Clarke; Clay; Clayton; Cleburne; Clermont; Cleveland; Clinch; Clinton; Coahoma; Coal; Coamo; Cobb; Cocke; Coffee; Colbert; Colleton; Collier; Collin; Colonial Heights; Colquitt; Columbia; Columbus; Comerío; Concordia; Conecuh; Conway; Cook; Cooke; Coosa; Copiah; Corozal; Cotton; Covington; Coweta; Craig; Craighead; Craven; Crawford; Creek; Crenshaw; Crisp; Crittenden; Crockett; Cross; Culebra; Cullman; Culpeper; Cumberland; Currituck; Dade; Dale; Dallas; Danville; Dare; Darlington; Davidson; Davie; Daviess; Dawson; De Soto; Decatur; DeKalb; Delaware; Delta; Denton; Desha; DeSoto; Dickenson; Dickson; Dillon; Dinwiddie; Dixie; Dodge; Dooly; Dorado; Dorchester; Dougherty; Douglas; Drew; Dunklin; Duplin; Durham; Duval; Dyer; Early; East Baton Rouge; East Carroll; East Feliciana; Echols; Edgecombe; Edgefield; Edmonson; Effingham; Elbert; Elliott; Ellis; Elmore; Emanuel; Emporia; Escambia; Essex; Estill; Etowah; Evangeline; Evans; Fairfax; Fairfield; Fajardo; Falls; Fannin; Faulkner; Fauquier; Fayette; Fentress; Flagler; Fleming; Florence; Florida; Floyd; Fluvanna; Forrest; Forsyth; Franklin; Frederick; Fredericksburg; Freestone; Fulton; Gadsden; Galax; Gallatin; Galveston; Garland; Garrard; Garvin; Gaston; Gates; Geneva; George; Georgetown; Gibson; Gilchrist; Giles; Gilmer; Glades; Glascock; Gloucester; Glynn; Goochland; Gordon; Grady; Graham; Grainger; Grant; Granville; Graves; Grayson; Green; Greenbrier; Greene; Greensville; Greenup; Greenville; Greenwood; Gregg; Grenada; Grimes; Grundy; Guánica; Guayama; Guayanilla; Guaynabo; Guilford; Gulf; Gurabo; Gwinnett; Habersham; Hale; Halifax; Hall; Hamblen; Hamilton; Hampton; Hancock; Hanover; Haralson; Hardee; Hardeman; Hardin; Harlan; Harnett; Harris; Harrison; Harrisonburg; Hart; Haskell; Hatillo; Hawkins; Haywood; Heard; Hempstead; Henderson; Hendry; Henrico; Henry; Hernando; Hertford; Hickman; Highlands; Hill; Hillsborough; Hinds; Hoke; Holmes; Hood; Hopewell; Hopkins; Hormigueros; Horry; Hot Spring; Houston; Howard; Hughes; Humacao; Humphreys; Hunt; Hyde; Iberia; Iberville; Independence; Indian River; Iredell; Irwin; Isabela; Isle of Wight; Issaquena; Itawamba; Izard; Jack; Jackson; James City; Jasper; Jayuya; Jeff Davis; Jefferson; Jefferson Davis; Jenkins; Jessamine; Johnson; Johnston; Jones; Juana Díaz; Juncos; Kaufman; Kemper; Kenton; Kershaw; King and Queen; King George; King William; Knott; Knox; Lafayette; Lafourche; Lajas; Lake; Lamar; Lancaster; Lanier; Lares; Larue; Las Marías; Las Piedras; LaSalle; Latimer; Lauderdale; Laurel; Laurens; Lawrence; Le Flore; Leake; Lee; Leflore; Lenoir; Leon; Leslie; Letcher; Levy; Lewis; Lexington; Liberty; Limestone; Lincoln; Little River; Livingston; Logan; Loíza; Long; Lonoke; Loudon; Loudoun; Louisa; Love; Lowndes; Lumpkin; Lunenburg; Luquillo; Lynchburg; Lyon; Macon; Madison; Magoffin; Manassas; Manassas Park; Manatee; Manatí; Marengo; Maricao; Marion; Marlboro; Marshall; Martin; Martinsville; Mason; Massac; Mathews; Maunabo; Maury; Mayagüez; Mayes; McClain; McCormick; McCracken; McCreary; McCurtain; McDonald; McDowell; McDuffie; McIntosh; McLean; McLennan; McMinn; McNairy; Meade; Mecklenburg; Meigs; Menifee; Mercer; Meriwether; Metcalfe; Miami-Dade; Middlesex; Miller; Mingo; Mississippi; Mitchell; Mobile; Moca; Monroe; Montague; Montgomery; Moore; Morehouse; Morgan; Morovis; Morris; Muhlenberg; Murray; Muscogee; Muskogee; Nacogdoches; Naguabo; Naranjito; Nash; Nassau; Natchitoches; Navarro; Nelson; Neshoba; Nevada; New Hanover; New Kent; New Madrid; Newberry; Newport News; Newton; Nicholas; Norfolk; Northampton; Northumberland; Norton; Nottoway; Noxubee; Obion; Oconee; Oglethorpe; Ohio; Okaloosa; Okeechobee; Okfuskee; Okmulgee; Oktibbeha; Oldham; Onslow; Orange; Orangeburg; Orleans; Orocovis; Osceola; Ottawa; Ouachita; Overton; Owen; Owsley; Page; Palm Beach; Palo Pinto; Pamlico; Panola; Parker; Pasco; Pasquotank; Patillas; Patrick; Paulding; Peach; Pearl River; Pemiscot; Pender; Pendleton; Peñuelas; Perquimans; Perry; Person; Petersburg; Phillips; Pickens; Pickett; Pierce; Pike; Pinellas; Pitt; Pittsburg; Pittsylvania; Plaquemines; Poinsett; Pointe Coupee; Polk; Ponce; Pontotoc; Pope; Poquoson; Portsmouth; Pottawatomie; Powell; Powhatan; Prairie; Prentiss; Prince Edward; Prince George; Prince George's; Prince William; Pulaski; Pushmataha; Putnam; Quebradillas; Quitman; Rabun; Radford; Rains; Raleigh; Randolph; Rankin; Rapides; Rappahannock; Red River; Rhea; Richland; Richmond; Rincón; Río Grande; Roane; Roanoke; Robertson; Robeson; Rockbridge; Rockcastle; Rockdale; Rockingham; Rockwall; Rogers; Rowan; Rusk; Russell; Rutherford; Sabana Grande; Sabine; Salem; Salinas; Saline; Saluda; Sampson; San Augustine; San Germán; San Jacinto; San Juan; San Lorenzo; San Sebastián; Santa Isabel; Santa Rosa; Sarasota; Schley; Scotland; Scott; Screven; Searcy; Sebastian; Seminole; Sequatchie; Sequoyah; Sevier; Sharkey; Sharp; Shelby; Shenandoah; Simpson; Smith; Smyth; Somervell; Southampton; Spalding; Spartanburg; Spencer; Spotsylvania; St. Bernard; St. Charles; St. Clair; St. Francis; St. Helena; St. James; St. John the Baptist; St. Johns; St. Landry; St. Lucie; St. Martin; St. Mary; St. Mary's; St. Tammany; Stafford; Stanly; Staunton; Stephens; Stewart; Stokes; Stone; Suffolk; Sullivan; Summers; Sumner; Sumter; Sunflower; Surry; Sussex; Suwannee; Swain; Switzerland; Talbot; Taliaferro; Talladega; Tallahatchie; Tallapoosa; Tangipahoa; Tarrant; Tate; Tattnall; Taylor; Tazewell; Telfair; Tensas; Terrebonne; Terrell; Thomas; Tift; Tippah; Tipton; Tishomingo; Titus; Toa Alta; Toa Baja; Todd; Toombs; Towns; Transylvania; Treutlen; Trigg; Trimble; Trinity; Troup; Trousdale; Trujillo Alto; Tulsa; Tunica; Turner; Tuscaloosa; Twiggs; Tyler; Tyrrell; Unicoi; Union; Upshur; Upson; Utuado; Van Buren; Van Zandt; Vance; Vanderburgh; Vega Alta; Vega Baja; Vermilion; Vernon; Vieques; Villalba; Virginia Beach; Volusia; Wagoner; Wake; Wakulla; Walker; Waller; Walthall; Walton; Ware; Warren; Warrick; Washington; Watauga; Wayne; Waynesboro; Weakley; Webster; West Baton Rouge; West Carroll; West Feliciana; Westmoreland; Wheeler; White; Whitfield; Whitley; Wichita; Wilcox; Wilkes; Wilkinson; Williamsburg; Williamson; Wilson; Winn; Winston; Wise; Wolfe; Wood; Woodford; Woodruff; Worth; Wyoming; Wythe; Yabucoa; Yadkin; Yalobusha; Yancey; Yauco; Yazoo; Yell; York; Young, South Carolina; Louisiana; Kentucky; Oklahoma; Mississippi; Ohio; Puerto Rico; Florida; North Carolina; Virginia; Texas; Tennessee; Georgia; Arkansas; Alabama; Maryland; Indiana; Missouri; West Virginia; Illinois National Forests in Alabama

This programmatic environmental assessment analyzes effects of emergency actions and closure orders on national forests in the Southern Region and establishes a consistent and efficient framework for authorizing these activities.

Location

Southern Region (US Forest Service lands in Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Puerto Rico, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia)

Project timeline

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NEPA Start Date
7/9/2026
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Finding/Decision Date
Facility managementForest productsFuels managementHeritage resource managementLand management planningLand ownership managementMinerals and geologyRecreation managementRegulations, directives, ordersRoad managementSpecial area managementVegetation management (other than forest products)Watershed managementWildlife, fish, rare plants