Stakeholders weigh in on Blue Mountains Forest Plan revision

The Blue Mountains - nearly 5 million acres that span the Malheur, Umatilla and Wallowa-Whitman national forests - is long overdue for a new management plan. The current plan was developed in 1990, but efforts to revise it have proved so contentious that they have failed twice. The management plan was supposed to be revised every 15 years to respond to changes in forest conditions. The latest…