Judge delays Kootenai National Forest project in favor of grizzly bears
A Missoula federal court judge has put a hold on a Yaak-area logging project where the Kootenai National Forest had planned work to begin in mid-May.
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A Missoula federal court judge has put a hold on a Yaak-area logging project where the Kootenai National Forest had planned work to begin in mid-May.
The Knotty Pine Project is one of five logging projects totaling almost 315,000 acres in the Yaak region approved by the Kootenai National Forest.
Two conservation groups have filed a lawsuit against the federal government over a recreation management plan for the Scratchgravel Hills Special Recreation Management Area northwest of Helena.
MISSOULA, MONTANA—Conservation groups sued the U.S. Forest Service today to stop a large timber sale in the Kootenai National Forest that threatens a small and imperiled population of grizzly bears near the Montana-Canada border. The groups notified the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service of their intent to sue it, as well.
Center for Biological Diversity: Knotty Pine Project Expected to Harm Fragile Cabinet-Yaak Grizzly Bear Population