Description: Challenge to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's review of a forest management project that allegedly authorized logging of 3,608 acres of old-growth forest.
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Cascadia Wildlands v. U.S. Bureau of Land Management
Case Documents:
Filing Date Type File Action Taken Summary 09/19/2023 Complaint Download Complaint filed. Environmental Groups Said BLM Failed to Consider Impacts of Logging Old-Growth Forest Areas. Two environmental groups filed a lawsuit in the federal district court for the District of Oregon challenging the U.S. Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM’s) review of the Big Weekly Elk Forest Management Project. The complaint described the project as authorizing logging of 3,608 acres of old-growth forest that supports wildlife protected under the Endangered Species Act. The plaintiffs contended that an environmental impact statement should have been prepared for the project and that BLM failed to take a hard look at the project’s impacts, including effects on carbon sequestration and greenhouse gas emissions. They also alleged that BLM failed to analyze the project’s cumulative impacts in connection with other forest management actions in the same area. They asserted violations of the National Environmental Policy Act, the Federal Land Policy and Management Act, and the Administrative Procedure Act.