Description: Challenge to the U.S. Forest Service’s authorization of a roadside hazard tree project covering nine national forests in California.
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Klamath Forest Alliance v. U.S. Forest Service
Case Documents:
Filing Date Type File Action Taken Summary 07/20/2023 Complaint Download Complaint filed. NEPA Lawsuit Challenged Forest Service’s Review of Roadside Hazard Tree Project in California . Environmental groups challenged the U.S. Forest Service’s authorization of a roadside hazard tree project covering nine national forests in California. They alleged that the Forest Service failed to comply with NEPA when it approved the project, which would be “one of the largest, if not the largest, logging/vegetation management projects ever proposed in California’s history,” covering more than 400,000 acres. They alleged, among other things, that the Forest Service failed to properly analyze and disclose the project’s impacts on climate change and carbon storage.