SACRAMENTO, Calif. – A federal judge has temporarily blocked the federal government’s plans to log the Rogue River-Siskiyou and Klamath National Forests as a response to a destructive 2017 wildfire, finding environmentalists raised serious doubts the feds considered short-term harm to wildlife and the northern spotted owl.
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