July 17, 2026
The Ninth Circuit revived a conservation group's suit against the U.S. Forest Service over an environmental review of an Idaho logging project, ruling that the group should have been allowed to raise an argument it had not raised during an earlier administrative process.
January 12, 2024
An Idaho federal judge said Wednesday a conservation group waived its challenge of the U.S. Forest Service's decision to categorically exclude a logging and prescribed burning project in the Idaho Panhandle National Forest from environmental review under a Healthy Forest Restoration Act provision.