The 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.”
Read moreThe Environmental Protection Information Center claims the U.S. Forest Service illegally authorized logging of 7,000 acres in Mendocino National Forest without proper Environmental Assessments or Environmental Impact Statements, in federal court.
Read moreA federal judge in Minnesota dismissed eight environmental groups’ challenges to the construction of an open-pit copper mine that they argue will destroy protected habitat and imperil several species in the Superior National Forest.
Read moreMountain Pursuit sued the U.S. Forest Service in federal court for allowing off-road vehicles in the Shoal Creek wilderness study area in the Bridger Teton and Caribou Targhee National Forests.
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A federal judge pressed pause Monday on the largest logging operation undertaken on U.S. Forest Service-managed land in approximately 30 years.
Read moreThe Alliance for the Wild Rockies sued the U.S. Forest Service in federal court, claiming it illegally approved the 10.6-square-mile Hanna Flats logging project in grizzly bear habitat in Panhandle National Forest.
Read moreThe Trump administration formally adopted revisions to land-use plans finalized in 2015 after years of fractious debate between states and the feds, revisions environmentalists say gut protections for the greater sage grouse and other species.
Read moreA federal judge blocked a controversial plan for a copper mine south of Tucson, Arizona, halting a decade-long process for a Canadian company that hopes to extract copper from a valuable deposit in the Santa Rita Mountains.
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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.
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