The US Forest Service and Fish and Wildlife Agency must redo the environmental studies for the revised management plan for the Nantahala and Pisgah National Forests, after a federal judge ruled the agency failed to adequately study the decline of an endangered bat species in the area.
The US District Court for the Western District of North Carolina vacated the biological opinion for a plan that included extensive logging on Tuesday, ruling the agencies failed to include an environmental baseline evaluation for several bat species in violation of the Endangered Species Act and the Administrative Procedure Act.
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