Michael Garrity

Once again, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies caught the Forest Service breaking the law, took the agency to court, and won. This time a Washington federal court has thrown out the Forest Service's decision for the Sxwutn-Kaniksu Connections “Trail” Project.

The massive 20-year project authorized logging, burning and bulldozing in roads across 141 square miles of Pend-Oreille County, impacting more than 90% of the Colville National Forest in eastern Washington on the Idaho border.

Having lost so many times in court, the Forest Service tried a new tactic for this project. Namely, simply refuse to tell the public where it's going to clearcut, log and bulldoze new roads.

It didn't work. The court ruled the Forest Service violated the National Environmental Policy Act, whic

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