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Steelhead fish. File photo LEWISTON (AP) A large timber sale in north-central Idaho has been put on hold because a federal judge says the agencies that approved the deal failed to consider the latest information on steelhead numbers. U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill ruled Aug. 4 that the U.S. Forest Service and National Marine Fisheries Service didn’t take into account new data that showed the numbers of threatened steelhead were at a 25-year-low when they approved the timber sale in parts of the Upper Lolo, Musselshell, Middle Lolo and Eldorado creek watersheds, The Lewiston Tribune reported. The Lolo Insect and Disease project includes clear-cut-like harvest practices and would require the construction of 13 miles of temporary roads. It is expected to produce 44 million board feet of timber and help sustain as many as 963 jobs. Opponents said it would also send sediment into streams in the area, harming threatened wild steelhead that are protected under the Endangered Specie

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