Federal judge halts logging project near White Sulphur Springs
A federal court judge in Montana has halted a logging project near White Sulphur Springs in the Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest after he said the U.S. Forest Service failed to take into account a decline in nesting goshawks, which violated federal law.
The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council successfully argued before federal magistrate Kathleen L. DeSoto that both the U.S. Forest Service and the United States Fish and Wildlife Service hadn’t properly considered the species, which are considered an essential indicator of old-growth forests.
The defendants in the case, the federal agencies as well as the American Forest Research Council, a group aligned with the logging industry, had objected to DeSoto’s findings, which were later affirmed by Judge Dana L. Christensen, who issued the final order.
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