The 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.
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.
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