U.S. Judge Stops Logging Project In Olympic National Forest
Forest service to conduct a new environmental assessment of the logging's impact
The Associated Press
May 9, 2008, 3:57 PM PDT
A federal judge has blocked a plan to log
2,200 acres in Olympic National Forest.
U.S. District Judge Ronald B. Leighton says the National Forest
Service approved the Bear Creek Saddle logging operation under
changes the Bush administration made to the Northwest Forest Plan
in 2004. Those changes, which weakened environmental protections,
have been struck down as illegal.
Leighton sent the matter back to the Forest Service to conduct a
new environmental assessment of the logging's impact.
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