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Groups are challenging a U.S. Forest Service logging project within the Custer-Gallatin National Forest outside Yellowstone National Park, a project they claim would imperil habitat for federally protected wildlife species.

The judge partially agreed with environmentalists that the U.S. Forest Service violated federal law when authorizing the Black Ram Project in northwest Montana.

he Bitterroot National Forest has once again decided to pursue a logging project near Hamilton, but environmental groups say the decision still doesn’t follow the Forest Plan.

Conservationists celebrated but said they'll wait to withdraw their lawsuit until FEMA makes good on its promise.

With Oregon’s wildfire season underway, a federal judge in Oregon will decide whether the U.S. Forest Service can authorize logging projects without public input or assessing environmental impacts in the name of wildfire prevention.

A federal judge has halted a logging project near Libby until the U.S. Forest Service justifies why it didn’t conduct a full environmental study and properly consider effects on Canada lynx.

A coalition of environmental groups has put the United States Forest Service on notice that its plan to clearcut more than 5,500 acres of forests just outside of Yellowstone National Park in the Custer-Gallatin National Forest will be challenged.

While the government argued it was way too early in the project to sue, Supreme Court precedent now allows people who live near or enjoy affected areas to bring actions before any trees are cut down.

The groups oppose the project because all but 1,200 acres of the project lies within core habitat of the Cabinet-Yaak Grizzly Bear Recovery Area.

George Wuerthner writes, "Contrary to logging proponents' assertions that thinning/logging will reduce wildfire spread and fire severity, there is abundant evidence that chainsaw medicine increases wildfire spread."