Ninth Circuit rules in favor of Forest Service
by PERRY BACKUS - Ravalli Republic
The 2½-year long legal saga of Montana’s first Healthy Forest Restoration Act fuel reduction project may be over.
A three-judge Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel affirmed Thursday a Missoula district court’s ruling that rejected a long list of legal claims challenging the Middle East Fork Hazardous Fuel Reduction Project on the Bitterroot National Forest from two environmental organizations.
Wildwest Institute and Friends of the Bitterroot sued the Forest Service in April 2006 to stop the project that proposed to thin trees on about 5,000 acres of national forest lands about two miles east of Sula. The project was designed to reduce wildland fire threats to the Middle East Fork community and treat areas impacted by a Douglas fir bark beetle epidemic.
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The 2½-year long legal saga of Montana’s first Healthy Forest Restoration Act fuel reduction project may be over.
A three-judge Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals panel affirmed Thursday a Missoula district court’s ruling that rejected a long list of legal claims challenging the Middle East Fork Hazardous Fuel Reduction Project on the Bitterroot National Forest from two environmental organizations.
Wildwest Institute and Friends of the Bitterroot sued the Forest Service in April 2006 to stop the project that proposed to thin trees on about 5,000 acres of national forest lands about two miles east of Sula. The project was designed to reduce wildland fire threats to the Middle East Fork community and treat areas impacted by a Douglas fir bark beetle epidemic.
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11/06/2008 10:16:00 PM
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