Forest wants to analyze thinning

by PERRY BACKUS - Ravalli Republic

DARBY - There are thousands of acres of national forest overstocked with planted trees that the Bitterroot National Forest is hoping to start thinning someday soon.

The agency is near to wrapping up a 30-day scoping and comment period on a proposal to initiate an environmental analysis for a forest-wide non-commercial thinning project on 7,550 acres of overstocked young conifer plantations.

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Supreme Court limits challenges to logging in federal forests

By Michael Doyle | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — A closely divided Supreme Court on Tuesday limited environmentalists' ability to challenge Forest Service rules in a case that arose from a controversial Sequoia National Forest salvage logging project.

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