Friday, January 15, 2010
Environmental Groups Sue Over Tongass Timber Sale
Three environmental groups are going to court to try and stop a particularly contentious timber sale of old-growth trees in the country's largest national forest. Greenpeace, Cascadia Wildlands and the Tongass Conservation Society filed the lawsuit Monday in U.S. District Court in Anchorage. It alleges that the U.S. Forest Service failed to comply with federal environmental laws in approving the Logjam timber sale last year in the Tongass National Forest. The lawsuit alleges that the Forest Service failed to consider the Logjam timber sale's impact on wolves, deer and salmon in that part of the Tongass. It asks the court to force the Forest Sercice and its contractors to stop work on the project on 3,422 acres and send it back to the agency to make it comply with federal laws. Attorneys for the agency in Juneau were evaluating the lawsuit and it was too soon to comment, said Ray Massey, Forest Service spokesman for the Alaska region...read more
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Take heed to this story all those who care about closing of the west. The enviros are closing down most of Alaska to development; at least the parts they have not locked up in national parks and preserves, fish and wildlife refuges, and so on. It is part of a two pronged strategy. Lock up lands where you can and where you can't, file lawsuit after lawsuit to stop development of resources on which the state depends.
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