Laura Lundquist

(Missoula Current) The Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest said they would reconsider their decision to put a radio station in a wilderness study area, but a judge has said they can leave the equipment there in the meantime.

Last month, Missoula federal magistrate judge Kathleen DeSoto granted a request from the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, which asked that the Forest Service be allowed to voluntarily reinitiate its project-approval process instead of going further into a lawsuit where the judge might eventually order them to do it anyway. The Forest Service didn’t have to admit it had done anything wrong, and the plaintiffs were disappointed that DeSoto decided the radio equipment could remain in place during the two years she’d given the Forest Service to comp

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