The Bureau of Land Management’s decision to allow logging in old-growth forests runs afoul of its own standards and harms endangered seabird habitat within an 8,000 acre logging project in southern Oregon, three environmental groups claim in a lawsuit filed Wednesday.
Cascadia Wildlands, Oregon Wild, and Umpqua Watersheds are seeking an injunction against the BLM’s 42 Divide logging project, which was approved in December, according to the lawsuit filed in US District Court for the District of Oregon.
The case is the latest among about 30 pending lawsuits filed mostly by environmental groups challenging some aspect of federal logging plans ...
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