BLM seeks bids for timber sale near Wolf Creek to reduce wildfire risk
BLM is taking sealed bids for 22.87 acres near Wolf Creek, a thinning sale meant to cut wildfire risk and recover timber value.
The Bureau of Land Management is seeking sealed bids for a proposed timber sale on about 22.87 acres of public land roughly 12 miles northwest of Wolf Creek, a move aimed at reducing wildfire danger on a small but high-priority parcel in Lewis and Clark County.
The sale sits inside a 40-acre BLM-administered tract and targets a mixed-conifer stand made up mostly of Douglas-fir, with scattered ponderosa pine, lodgepole pine and limber pine. The work would use uneven-aged thinning of live and dead trees to reduce conifer density, lower hazardous fuels and improve long-term forest health while recovering economic value from the timber.
Bids are due to the BLM Butte Field Office by 4:30 p.m. on June 26, 2026. The agency will open them on June 29 and notify the successful bidder by phone or email. BLM Butte Field Manager Lindsey Babcock said the project is intended to reduce wildfire risk while maintaining and enhancing forest resiliency, and to support forest health objectives and local communities through timber revenue and related economic activity.
The sale also fits into a broader federal push to increase timber production and supply construction and other industries. The BLM says the project supports Executive Order 14225, Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production. Across Montana and the Dakotas, the agency’s forestry program manages about 1.3 million acres of forest land, including 900,000 acres of commercial forest land, most of it in western Montana.
The Wolf Creek sale follows another BLM action in the same county. On April 14, 2026, the Butte Field Office approved the Little Wolf Forest Management Project, a plan calling for up to 22 acres of treatment within the wildland-urban interface. The project page says the agency completed a categorical exclusion for that work, and the public appeal deadline passed May 13.
Both projects reflect the same local pressure point: the edge of forest and homes around Wolf Creek, where wildfire planning documents have identified the area as part of the wildland-urban interface. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service materials for Wolf Creek say the goal is to restore forests to a healthy and resilient condition around the community and reduce wildfire risk, a priority that aligns with the BLM’s thinning plan.
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