The Forest Service is preparing an EIS for the Mokelumne Amador Calaveras (MAC) Forest Resilience Project, a 246,838-acre effort on the Eldorado and Stanislaus National Forests in California. The project addresses elevated high-severity wildfire risk through vegetation management including forest thinning, prescribed fire, shaded fuel breaks, hazard tree removal, salvage logging, and invasive species control, implemented over 10 years. Project-specific forest plan amendments tied to the Conservation Strategy for the California Spotted Owl are proposed. The draft EIS is expected mid-2025, the final EIS early 2026, and scoping comments are due October 28, 2024.12