Forests Cases
08/17/2005
Mountain caribou are found in the US only in the Selkirk Mountains of northern Idaho and Washington, and are among the most critically endangered mammals in the lower 48 states. The caribou feed on lichen in old growth forests to survive the winter, and are easily startled by motorized...
05/10/2004
We won an injunction in 2004 preventing the Clearwater National Forest from proceeding with two adjoining timber sales in the Lolo Creek watershed of central Idaho, to protect habitat of imperilled fish -- including salmon, steelhead, and bull trout.
Even though the Forest Service...
04/10/2002
This case challenged BLM's proposal to clearcut and mulch some 50 square miles of old growth pinyon-juniper forest around the Mt. Wilson area of central Nevada.
BLM claimed that the logging was needed to reduce wildfire risks in the "urban/wildland interface," even though there...
05/01/1997
Representing a broad coalition of national, state and local conservation groups, we brought this case in 1997 to stop Forest Service plans to log old growth forests in the Clearwater region of central Idaho -- including the headwaters of the Lochsa and North Fork Clearwater rivers. The...