Judge Rules to Protect National Forests
by ERICA LIEPMANN, Causecast Editor
You might not be able to tell but this owl is celebrating…
The economic downturn has hit us all hard, and some leftover Bush-era legislation made it look like his house was the next to go. A federal judge has intervened – with a ruling that preserves national forest land for this owl and his woodland friends.
From the Associated Press:
A federal judge has struck down the Bush administration’s change to a rule designed to protect the northern spotted owl from logging in national forests.
U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken ruled from Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday that the U.S. Forest Service failed to take a hard look at the environmental impacts of changing the rule to make it easier to cut down forest habitat of species such as the spotted owl and salmon on 193 million acres of national forests.
“I am hopeful that this is the last nail in the coffin to (President George W.) Bush’s assault on our public forests,” said Pete Frost, an attorney for the Western Environmental Law Center in Eugene, which represented plaintiffs in one of two cases challenging the rule.
Final Score –
Owls: 1
Bush: 0
Tyrese: 0 (You know…because Tyrese hates owls, although how he feels about national forests is unclear.)
Photo by qmnonic, flickr.
- Posted by Causecast
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