Federal judge quizzes lawyers in Flathead National Forest plan lawsuit
Work on grizzly bear research continues in the NCDE.
When should a road count as a road?
Grizzly bears avoid roads — even ones that aren’t used by motor vehicles. So the Flathead National Forest is supposed to limit road density on forest land for that threatened species – and bull trout benefit, too.
But a forest plan’s descriptions of roads — as “decommissioned” or “closed” or “impassable” — were one subject of arguments made this week in U.S. District Court in Missoula before Judge Kathleen DeSoto.
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