A commercial logging project in the Shawnee National Forest was temporarily halted amid environmental litigation after a federal judge ruled the 69 acres set to be cut would be permanently harmed save court intervention.
The US Forest Service is barred from implementing the McCormick Oak-Hickory Restoration Project as Friends of Bell Smith Springs and the Regional Association of Concerned Environmentalists bring claims that the agency violated the National Environmental Policy Act by not conducting a study of the project’s impacts before authorizing it, the US District Court for the Southern District of Illinois said.
The logging project would be complete ...
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