View Comments A Multnomah County judge has rejected a request from environmental groups to halt post-fire logging in the Santiam Canyon, but that doesn't mean controversy surrounding how Oregon manages the forests burned in the Labor Day fires is going away. Last Friday, circuit court judge Jerry Hodson ruled that the Oregon Department of Forestry could move forward with plans to harvest and remove hazard trees on 3,000 acres of fire-burned Santiam State Forest. Hodson found the lawsuit filed by seven conservation groups last month was unlikely to prevail in court, so he denied a requested injunction to stop the plan.