Castle Mountain Project
Environmentalists blasted the U.S. Forest Service’s approval of a project that involves logging, clear-cutting and burning of trees as well as the construction of a road that will harm area wildlife.
Read moreEnvironmentalists blasted the U.S. Forest Service’s approval of a project that involves logging, clear-cutting and burning of trees as well as the construction of a road that will harm area wildlife.
Read moreThe U.S. Forest Service allows motorized recreation in the Clearwater National Forest, imperiling grizzly bears, elk, bull trout and wolverines, and has never done the environmental reviews necessary to allow such recreation, conservationists say in a lawsuit.
Read moreA Canadian mining company should be permitted to pile waste rock on U.S. Forest Service land in Arizona near a planned open-pit copper mine, attorneys for the federal agency and the company told a Ninth Circuit appeals panel Monday.
Read moreForest fires and development have nearly decimated the Mt. Graham red squirrel, with only about 100 left in their “bottleneck habitat.”
Read moreEnvironmental groups sued the Trump administration in federal court Monday for failing to protect the endangered Gunnison sage grouse from cattle grazing across its southwestern Colorado habitat.
Read moreThey can survive winds of 100 miles an hour and hundreds of inches of snow, but the whitebark pine is struggling against the onslaught of a European fungal disease and climate change.
Read moreThe U.S. Forest Service’s plan to build a 3-mile trail — with bridge for hikers and cattle — will disrupt the natural balance of the area, negatively impact private property owners and violate the Endangered Species Act, according to property owners who sued Wednesday.
Read moreA group of residents from Leadville, Colorado, failed to show the U.S. Forest Service improperly approved a 1,600-acre timber project in the Upper Fryingpan Valley, a federal court in Colorado ruled. The residents claimed the project would have a climate impact because of the biomass fuel it would generate, disruptions to the soil and emissions-producing logging trucks.
Read moreEight months after a federal judge green-lighted a roadside logging project to remove fire-damaged trees on 7,000 acres in Mendocino National Forest, the Ninth Circuit on Monday reversed that decision and issued a preliminary injunction to stop it.
Read moreA 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.
Read moreWith 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.
Read moreAttorneys 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.
Read moreConservationists 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.
Read more