Forest Service faces logging rule challenge

Forest Service faces logging rule challenge

MEDFORD, Ore. — Rejecting a magistrate’s findings and recommendation, an Oregon federal court declined to dismiss an environmental group’s challenge to the U.S. Forest Service’s logging rule amendment. A separate court decision largely vacated the amendment, but portions regarding snag and green tree provisions to the South Warner Habitat Modification Project in the Fremont-Winema National Forest were not impacted by the vacatur, so the group’s …

Court sides with USFS in challenge to Idaho logging project

The ruling is separate from a July decision by the same panel that found that the Alliance for the Wild Rockies can pursue its claim that the project is subject to environmental review.