Green Groups Challenge US Timber Sale in Shasta-Trinity Forest

The US Forest Service has opened a part of the wildfire-damaged Shasta-Trinity National Forest in California to timber sales without conducting the necessary environmental reviews, according to a new lawsuit.

The Klamath Forest Alliance and three other environmental groups alleged the federal government’s emergency approval of the North Trinity County Community Risk Reduction Project was unwarranted in a lawsuit filed Tuesday in the US District Court for the Northern District of California. The move cuts the public out of the review process, they said.

“The Forest Service claims as an ‘emergency’ a need to mitigate the threat of a possible ...