Appeals court upholds timber project in Crazy Mountains
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday ruled in the Gallatin National Forest’s favor in a lawsuit intended to stop a 180-acre tree-thinning project in the Crazy Mountains, forest officials announced Thursday.
The Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council filed suit against the proposed Big Timber Canyon Vegetation Treatment Project in 2008, two years after it was first proposed, according to Andi Falsetto, public affairs specialist for the Custer and Gallatin national forests
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