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Judge halts Beaverhead Deerlodge timber project

August 03, 2016 by Laura Lundquist

A federal judge halted a timber project Friday because the Forest Service might have overstepped its bounds in bypassing the public process.

On Friday, Missoula federal District Judge Donald Molloy put a hold on the Moosehorn Ditch Salvage Timber Sale in time to halt logging scheduled to begin on Aug. 1. In so doing, he gave attorneys for the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystem Council time to press their lawsuit that the Beaverhead Deerlodge National Forest approved a timber sale without going through a public process as required by law.

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August 03, 2016 /Laura Lundquist
logging, Forest Service, lawsuit, AWR

Lawsuit would increase protection for Cabinet-Yaak grizzly bears

February 10, 2016 by Laura Lundquist

In refusing to increase protection and designate critical habitat in the Cabinet-Yaak region, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has probably hampered grizzly-bear recovery, according to a new lawsuit.

On Monday, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for the third time in almost two years for not giving more protection to grizzly bears in the Cabinet-Yaak region of northwest Montana.

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February 10, 2016 /Laura Lundquist
grizzly bear, AWR, lawsuit

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