Court Halts Logging in Oregon Forest
This sounds like a white elephant for the environmental movement. More bad press the 9th circuit does not need. From the AP:
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A federal appeals court on Tuesday blocked logging of old-growth forest scorched in one of the nation's largest wildfires until a lawsuit brought by environmentalists is decided, making it unlikely the dead trees can be harvested before rotting,” reported the Associated Press, 9/8. The injunction, sought by conservation groups, “covers timber sales on 6,600 acres of old growth forest reserves that were designated primarily for fish and wildlife habitat under the Northwest Forest Plan, they 1994 policy adopted to protect the Northern spotted owl and salmon from logging.” The fire burned about 500,000 acres in southwestern Oregon in 2002, the biggest wildfire in the nation that year.
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A federal appeals court on Tuesday blocked logging of old-growth forest scorched in one of the nation's largest wildfires until a lawsuit brought by environmentalists is decided, making it unlikely the dead trees can be harvested before rotting,” reported the Associated Press, 9/8. The injunction, sought by conservation groups, “covers timber sales on 6,600 acres of old growth forest reserves that were designated primarily for fish and wildlife habitat under the Northwest Forest Plan, they 1994 policy adopted to protect the Northern spotted owl and salmon from logging.” The fire burned about 500,000 acres in southwestern Oregon in 2002, the biggest wildfire in the nation that year.
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