An environmental group expanded its litigation against logging in the Nez Perce-Clearwater National Forest by challenging six new projects and broadening its attack on two other plans allowed to proceed earlier this year.
Friends of the Clearwater said the US Forest Service’s approvals failed to account for the cumulative impact of cutting a total 45,000 acres, including critical habitats and watershed lands, in a complaint filed in the US District Court for the District of Idaho.
The agency failed to catalog or evaluate the projects’ impacts on old growth, and improperly approved regenerative logging, clearcuts, and vegetation treatments on large ...
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