MISSOULA, Mont. — A federal judge ruled to halt a Montana logging project in the Kootenai National Forest, citing violations of environmental laws protecting grizzly populations by the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

The Center for Biological Diversity says the proposed Knotty Pine Project is located in the Cabinet-Yaak grizzly bear recovery zone of northwest Montana, and authorized logging, burning and new road construction across more than 7,000 acres of the area.

“This decision is a critical win for the Cabinet-Yaak’s struggling grizzly bears,” said Kristine Akland, Northern Rockies director at the Center for Biological Diversity in a press release. “For decades, federal agencies have turned a blind eye while roads carved up bear country, and grizzly bears have

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