(CN) — The Department of Justice told a Ninth Circuit panel Wednesday that they should allow a wildfire prevention logging project planned in the Idaho Panhandle National Forest to move forward because it does not violate federal rules limiting road density around grizzly bear recovery zones.
Environmental group Alliance for the Wild Rockies sued the Forest Service in 2018 over Hanna Flats Good Neighbor Authority Project, a vegetation management project which permitted extensive commercial logging and prescribed burning, temporary road construction and maintenance and excavated skid trail construction next to a recovery zone for the protected Selkirk grizzly bear.
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