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The Kootenai National Forest finalized a contentious logging project on Tuesday after a court-ordered evaluation found that the Black Ram project won’t severely impact grizzly bears and other threatened species. But environmental groups are pushing back against that finding.
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A U.S. District Court judge put a hold on the project Wednesday on the basis that the Forest Service did not properly evaluate the project’s impact on the small threatened grizzly bear population in the bordering Cabinet-Yaak ecosystem.
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A U.S. District Court judge in Missoula has stopped a logging project on the Lolo National Forest, saying it didn’t follow the forest’s management plan.
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Gov. Greg Gianforte announced Friday that the state awarded $4.5 million to 14 forest projects meant to bolster the timber industry, restore forest health…
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service announced today that it’s proposing federal protections for whitebark pine trees.At least one environmental group…
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A federal magistrate judge in Montana has dismissed a lawsuit against the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation that alleged an irrigation project in northwest Montana harms threatened bull trout.
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Two conservation groups Friday sued the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over a proposed logging project in the Lolo National Forest…
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It’s back to the drawing board for a huge vegetation management project in the Bitterroot National Forest. Forest Supervisor Matt Anderson has withdrawn…
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Environmental groups are suing the Bitterroot National Forest over a proposed project that calls for about 5,600 acres of commercial logging. The Gold…
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The U.S. Forest Service Tuesday withdrew its appeal of a 2019 court ruling ordering it to examine ineffective closures of temporary logging roads in…