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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 Dispatch.

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 Dispatch.

The Forest Service estimates the beetles killed about two-thirds of the north slope’s lodgepole pine and Engelmann spruce trees over a seven-year span.

The Forest Service estimates the beetles killed about two-thirds of the north slope’s lodgepole pine and Engelmann spruce trees over a seven-year span.

Federal foresters are working to remove trees from the Uinta Mountains that were killed off by massive beetle infestations starting in the early 2000s.