Forest Service Sued for Approving Plumas Forest Logging Project

The US Forest Service approved a logging project in Plumas National Forest without adequately assessing its environmental effects, environmental groups said in a lawsuit filed Friday in California federal court.

The $650 million Central/West Slope Project plans to log and burn 217,721 acres of mature and old-growth habitat in Plumas National Forest, located in the northern Sierra Nevadas, John Muir Project of Earth Island Institute and other groups said in the lawsuit. But instead of preparing an environmental impact statement for one of the largest logging projects in Plumas National Forest history, the agency only prepared an environmental assessment, they ...