by Web Editor | Mar 11, 2015 | News, News/PR
A District Judge has dismissed a lawsuit conservation groups filed against the Flathead National Forest over logging projects in the South Fork Flathead River corridor. U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen sided with a Magistrate Judge who ruled in favor of the U.S....
by Web Editor | Oct 31, 2014 | News, News/PR
Spiky clumps of Oregon grape are just beginning to emerge in a sea of brown needles, charred bark and blackened rock blanketing southwestern Klamath County. “It burned hot,” said Andy Geissler, pointing to naked trees and gnarled shrubs that were scorched in the...
by Web Editor | Jun 23, 2014 | News, News/PR
Two conservation groups made the first legal challenge to a logging operation excluded from environmental analysis and public review under the 2014 Farm Bill. On Thursday, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council filed a lawsuit in U.S. District...
by Web Editor | Jun 13, 2014 | News, News/PR
A Montana federal judge has ruled that the Gallatin National Forest can log certain sections of trees that were burned in the Millie Fire two years ago. Last week, U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen of Missoula ruled that two environmental groups failed to prove...
by Web Editor | Nov 18, 2013 | News, News/PR
A renowned conservation biologist who has done research for the Forest Service for more than a decade is suing the agency to try to block logging in the Sierra Nevada mountains above Lake Tahoe. He says it’s being done illegally under the guise of reducing...