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Commissioners for Anaconda-Deer Lodge County are intervening in a lawsuit that seeks to halt a timber project. Commissioners worry that stopping the project would have negative economic and environmental impacts.

Commissioners for Anaconda-Deer Lodge County are intervening in a lawsuit that seeks to halt a timber project. Commissioners worry that stopping the project would have negative economic and environmental impacts.

Environmental groups are suing the U.S. Forest Service over a project that would remove trees in the Ashley National Forest, which includes a large section of the Uinta Mountain range and Flaming Gorge reservoir in northeastern Utah. Filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court for Utah’s Central Division, the Center for Biological Diversity, Yellowstone to Uintas […] The post Lawsuit looks to stop U.S. Forest Service project in Utah’s Uinta Mountains appeared first on Utah News D...

Environmental groups are suing the U.S. Forest Service over a project that would remove trees in the Ashley National Forest, which includes a large section of the Uinta Mountain range and Flaming Gorge reservoir in northeastern Utah. Filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court for Utah’s Central Division, the Center for Biological Diversity, Yellowstone to Uintas […] The post Lawsuit looks to stop U.S. Forest Service project in Utah’s Uinta Mountains appeared first on Utah News D...

Center for Biological Diversity: SALT LAKE CITY— Conservation groups sued the U.S. Forest Service today for approving logging within up to 147,000 acres of sensitive roadless habitat in Utah’s Ashley National Forest.

Conservation groups have filed a lawsuit against the United States Forest Service for what they’re calling a “massive” project that encompasses more than 73,000 acres and covers 115 square miles in the Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness Area. Those groups have urged the federal district court to take immediate action because they say the logging project has already […] The post Conservation groups say ‘massive’ Pintler Wilderness logging project should be stopp...

The lawsuit was filed well after the Forest Service project decision released in September 2021. Logging has already begun.

The lawsuit was filed well after the Forest Service project decision released in September 2021. Logging has already begun.

The lawsuit was filed well after the Forest Service project decision released in September 2021. Logging has already begun.

A consortium of conservation groups have again filed a lawsuit over a forest thinning and prescribed burn project planned in the Bitterroot National Forest