A federal judge handed a logging project proposed for the Alaskan wilderness a major setback Wednesday, finding the environmental impact studies for the project were inadequate and cannot be saved.
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With a 7-2 Supreme Court reversal, Atlantic Coast Pipeline on Monday won the right to cut through the Appalachian Trail.
Read moreFriends of the Clearwater sued the U.S. Forest Service in federal court, claiming it illegally omitted the effects of a 1,719-acre logging project on grizzly bears in the Idaho Panhandle National Forest.
Read moreA federal judge in Idaho on Thursday denied the federal government’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit by conservation organizations that sought to stop black-bear baiting in national forests in Idaho and Wyoming.
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Attorneys sparred over the government’s plan to log trees after wildfire tore through an area designated as critical habitat for spotted owls – leaving behind exactly the type of snags that the threatened birds prefer for nesting and foraging.
Read moreThe Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center sued the U.S. Forest Service in federal court for approving logging and timber sales on 1,650 acres of Klamath National Forest, habitat for the Northern spotted owl and Pacific fisher.
Read moreThe Yellowstone to Uintas Connection sued the U.S. Forest Service in federal court, claiming the Crow Creek natural gas pipeline project through 20 miles of national forest will harm protected wildlife.
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Conservationists say this season’s unfettered wolf hunt in the Alaska’s Tongass National Forest may have left only five animals alive in the area.
Read moreThe Alliance for the Wild Rockies sued the U.S. Forest Service in federal court, claiming its plan to conduct prescribed burns on 10,000 acres and logging on 2,000 acres in Lewis and Clark National Forest will hurt protected grizzly bears, lynx and wolverines.
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The United States Forest Service prematurely authorized a tree-thinning project in Mt. Hood National Forest without assessing its environmental impact, the Ninth Circuit ruled Friday.
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A federal judge in Alaska blocked the Trump administration’s plans to open the nation’s largest national forest to logging operations due to oversight in the federal government’s plans for the proposed 1.8 million-acre project.
Read moreThe Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Forest Service in federal court, claiming its approval of construction and maintenance of six roads in national forests in the Idaho Panhandle will harm threatened grizzly bears.
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With a focus on which federal agency, if any, has authority over a portion of Appalachian Trail inside a national forest, the Supreme Court appeared inclined Monday to reinstate a permit for the 605-mile Atlantic Coast Pipeline.
Read moreThe Friends of the Bitterroot sued the U.S. Forest Service in federal court, claiming it illegally approved logging and road construction on 27,453 acres in the Bitterroot National Forest.
Read moreNeighbors of the Mogollon Rim sued the U.S. Forest Service and Fish and Wildlife Service in federal court, claiming they illegally expanded grazing allotments that had been closed to grazing for 40 years in Arizona’s Mogollon Rim.
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The deal forged between the timber industry and green groups has a chance to be a model for environmental fights across the nation.
Read moreThe Western Watersheds Project sued the U.S. Forest Service in federal court, claiming it’s allowing Utah’s Monroe Mountain area to be devastated by scofflaw ranchers who “have made overtly clear they have guns to back up their threats, and they call for the arrest of USFS employees who attempt to exercise basic management and oversight on federal grazing allotments as required by law.”
Read moreThe Alliance for the Wild Rockies, et al. sued the U.S. Forest Service in federal court for allowing “extensive commercial logging, prescribed burning, and construction of new roads in … approximately 80,000 acres in … the Payette National Forest in Idaho.”
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