Good Neighbor Authority (GNA) enables the Forest Service to partner with the Idaho Department of Lands to achieve restoration and resilient landscape objectives across ownership boundaries through cooperative agreements. The goal of GNA in Idaho is to increase the pace and scale of forest and watershed restoration activities on federal forests. These cooperative efforts can help improve forest health, reduce fuels and threats to communities and watersheds from catastrophic wildfires, and create more jobs and economic benefits, including providing more fiber to Idaho forest products markets.
Read the December 2024 GNA Progress Report
Read the October 2025 Western States GNA Accomplishment Report
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Informational Materials
- Good Neighbor Authority helping with restoration on private lands
- Idaho auctions another Good Neighbor Authority timber sale on federal lands
- Idaho doubles effort to increase federal land management, expands ‘Good Neighbor Authority’ to federal rangelands
- Idaho auctions Good Neighbor Authority timber sale on Idaho Panhandle National Forests
- Land Board Opinion: Good Neighbor Authority improves the lives of citizens and the health of our lands
- Governor’s Opinion: Idaho leading the way to reduce wildfire, create more jobs on federal lands
- News Release: Idaho Good Neighbor Authority projects aim to create jobs, promote healthy lands, reduce fire
- News Release: Idaho auctions second Good Neighbor Authority timber sale on federal lands
- News Article: Hanna Flats project focuses on forest health, The Beacon 6-6-2017
- News Release: Work set to begin on Idaho Good Neighbor Authority projects
- Governor’s Opinion: Idaho is Fighting Wildfires through the Power of Partnerships
- Governor’s Office News Release: Idaho Auctions First Good Neighbor Authority Timber Sale on Federal Lands
Contact
Jon Songster
Lands Bureau Chief
(208) 666-8676
jsongster@idl.idaho.gov