The US Forest Service failed to analyze how a project intended to reduce wildfire risk would impact northern goshawk and big game in southern Utah’s Dixie National Forest, a group of environmental nonprofits claim.
The Forest Service can’t show the project complies with a 1986 land management plan for the forest that requires the agency to maintain certain population levels of goshawk, which are harmed by prescribed fires and logging, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and others asserted in a complaint filed Nov. 7 in the US District Court for the District of Utah.
The Forest Service in May ...
Learn more about Bloomberg Law or Log In to keep reading:
See Breaking News in Context
Bloomberg Law provides trusted coverage of current events enhanced with legal analysis.
Already a subscriber?
Log in to keep reading or access research tools and resources.