Idaho
Idaho Panhandle Logging Project Faces Skeptical Ninth Circuit
Oct. 20, 2022, 6:53 PM
An environmental group claiming that the Forest Service is unlawfully utilizing a categorical exemption to hurry up a logging venture within the Idaho Panhandle Nationwide Forest appeared to sway the panel of judges throughout oral arguments on the Ninth Circuit Thursday.
“The Forest Service simply appears to be saying: ‘Belief us,’” Choose Ryan D. Nelson mentioned to company counsel Joan Pepin. Alliance for the Wild Rockies sued the Forest Service in June 2021, alleging that it improperly excluded the venture from environmental assessment, regardless of the hurt the venture’s roads pose to grizzly bears and in violation of the Nationwide Environmental …