A federal judge has refused to block logging, road building and other activities on a 25,000-acre timber sale in Oregon's Umatilla National Forest. U.S. District Judge Anna Brown in Portland has rejected claims by an environmental group that the Wildcat II project will have a significant impact on the forest. The League of Wilderness Defenders had filed a legal complaint against the U.S. Forest Service after it approved the fuels reduction and vegetation management project last year. According to the complaint, the agency violated environmental law by insufficiently studying the potential impacts of the project. The group particularly objected to disturbing two "roadless expanses" within the forest because it said these areas are ecologically significant...more
A good example of the philosophy of Wilderness advocates: Let it absolutely burn to the ground, just keep it "roadless".
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