logging

Contractors recently completed a 29-acre fuels reduction project in Virgil Phillips Farm Park, near Moscow.

Idaho is planning to work with the U.S. Forest Service to significantly boost logging and timber sales from National Forest trees in the Gem State.

Three organizations are suing to stop the Forest Service from logging in a remote region of the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest that serves as important habitat for threatened wildlife.

The coalition accused a logging company of exploiting its contract with the U.S. Forest Service to stifle competition.

The complaint says the project will further harm threatened bull trout because of the haul roads planned along some of the few streams where bull trout live and spawn.

Conservation groups are suing to stop a logging project west of Kalispell and Whitefish, saying it interferes with grizzly bear connectivity and would further eliminate old-growth forest.

Environmental groups say the large-scale logging project, much of it located in Flathead National Forest, puts threatened grizzly bears at risk.

Missoula federal district judge Dana L. Christensen heard arguments on whether five conservation organizations were likely to win their lawsuit against the Missoula BLM Office regarding a series of logging projects on BLM land in the Garnet Mountains.

Michael Garrity writes, "The illegal Greenhorn logging project would have allowed wildlife habitat destruction in the form of industrial logging, road-building, and burning activities across thousands of acres of public lands."

One of the country’s largest forest management plans is facing controversial changes that strongly recommend logging in response to increased wildfires.