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The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and its co-Plaintiff, Native Ecosystems Council, have prevailed in stopping the Middleman project in Montana’s Big Belt Mountains, which was yet another massive and illegal Forest Service 20-year logging and burning project in western Montana. We believe the Forest Service settled the case because the agency had again violated […] The post Alliance stops 100 miles of roads and 5,000 acres of clearcuts on Montana’s public lands appeared first on Daily Montanan.

The proposal stops short of limiting timber harvest in younger “mature” stands of trees.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has decided to unlock $21.6 million in wildlife habitat grants threatened by the Minnesota Department of Natural Resource's handling of logging contracts on public hunting lands. In a letter this week to DNR Commissioner Sarah Strommen, Acting Regional Director Chuck Traxler of the Fish and Wildlife Service said he's confident the DNR's "future actions'' will ...

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