A Trump administration-approved logging project in Los Padres National Forest will destroy habitat for endangered California condors and elevate wildfire risks for local communities, conservation groups say in a federal lawsuit filed Wednesday.
Read moreThe Alliance for the Wild Rockies brought a federal complaint over an order authorizing 2,239 acres of clear cutting on more than 10,000 acres in Lewis and Clark National Forest, much of which is habitat for elk and grizzly bears.
Read moreConservationists sued the federal government Wednesday over its practice of allowing black bear hunters to use bait in Wyoming and Idaho.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit revived a lawsuit Thursday seeking to require the U.S. Forest Service to do something about lead ammunition in Arizona’s Kaibab National Forest, finding the court has jurisdiction to decide whether the harm caused by spent lead ammo should be mitigated.
Read moreWilderness Watch claims in a federal complaint that the U.S. Forest Service authorized “the unprecedented use of chainsaws” in the Weminuche and South San Juan Wilderness Areas in the Rocky Mountains.
Read moreA federal judge urged the U.S. Forest Service on Thursday to work out a deal with animal rights activists who claim a plan to shrink the glut of wild horses in a Northern California forest will cause some horses to get slaughtered.
Read moreA federal judge approved an agreement between the U.S. Forest Service and ForestWatch to reduce the impacts of poorly regulated target shooting in Los Padres National Forest.
Read moreFriends of the Wild Swan brought a federal complaint to vacate plan approval for road construction in Flathead National Forest that it says will threaten protected grizzly bears and bull trout.
Read moreThe Cascade Forest Conservancy claims in a federal complaint that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management illegally approved exploratory drilling on 900 acres in Gifford Pinchot National Forest.
Read moreAn environmental group demanding that Nestle stop pumping millions of gallons of water from a California creek failed to persuade a federal judge that the government should disclose records related to the Swiss company’s bottled water operations.
Read moreJust two months after a wildfire wiped out Paradise, California, officials are gearing up for this year’s fire season and fear the government shutdown could make it even more difficult than one of the worst in history.
Read moreQuoting Dr. Seuss’ “The Lorax,” the Fourth Circuit spoke for the trees Thursday by scrapping a key federal permit for a planned section of a natural gas pipeline crossing 21 miles of national forest in Virginia, including a section of the Appalachian Trail.
Read moreThe Idaho Conservation League claims in a federal complaint that the U.S. Forest Service’s approval of the Kilgore Exploration Project, a five-year mining project in the Caribou-Targhee National Forest, would hurt “sensitive species” including grizzly bear, whitebark pine, spotted frog and cutthroat trout.
Read moreA plan to round up nearly 1,000 wild horses from a national forest in California and sell them for slaughter would betray a decades-old federal policy and violate multiple state and federal laws, animal rights advocates claim in a new federal lawsuit filed Friday.
Read moreCascadia Wildlands brought a federal complaint against the U.S. Forest Service for approving the Crystal Clear Restoration Project: an 11,700-acre logging sale on Mt. Hood, which includes nearly 4,000 acres of old-growth forest that provides habitat for endangered species.
Read moreA coterie of federal, state and local law enforcement officials, forest managers and scientists unveiled the results of their efforts to combat the environmental degradation associated with marijuana grows on public lands in California Tuesday.
Read moreThe U.S. Forest Service granted Nestle a 3-year permit to continue bottling water from a source in the San Bernardino National Forest east of Los Angeles.
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