Montana Logging Project Allowed to Continue After New Assessment

The US Forest Service received a nod from a federal judge to continue a logging project in Montana after the agency updated its environmental assessment to address the decline in goshawk nesting.

The US District Court for the District of Montana lifted an injunction on the 20,600-acre Horsefly Project Tuesday, accepting a supplemental environmental assessment that concluded the tree cutting would only impact 1% of the bird’s habitat in the Little Belt Mountains.

• Judge Dana L. Christensen last year remanded the agency’s review of the project’s impact on narrow grounds to address concerns raised under the National Forest Management Act, ...