A new lawsuit filed late last week against the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says that a logging project in western Montana should be halted because it’s just one of more than a dozen projects that have chipped away at habitat for native bull trout, which are on the federal Endangered Species list.

The lawsuit filed by the Alliance for the Wild Rockies in federal court says that the Redd Bull 2 Project, which has been sited west of St. Regis, would authorize logging on 6,408 acres of land, which would include the use of prescribed fire and commercial thinning.

Furthermore, the conservation group says that the federal agencies have acknowledged that the project will likely continue to hurt already imperiled populations of bull trout as well as adversely affect

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