Hood River has been named as one of a dozen locations in the Northwest to be added to an expanded list of U.S. Forest Service “listening sessions” on revisions to the Northwest Forest Plan. The date and time of the Hood River session has not yet been announced. It will deal with management plan revision plans for the Mt. Hood and Gifford Pinchot National Forest and the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area. The sessions will include the Forest Service discussing its current thinking on plan revision and how science will inform the process and receiving ideas and thoughts on how to engage the public for plan revisions on each forest. Only three sessions had been planned for the region initially, but many in the Northwest Congressional delegation called on the Forest Service to schedule more in forest communities.