Laura Lundquist

(Missoula Current) Three organizations are suing to stop the Forest Service from logging in a remote region of the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest that serves as important habitat for threatened wildlife.

On Monday, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Native Ecosystems Council, and Council on Wildlife and Fish sued the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest in Missoula federal court to stop the Selway-Saginaw logging project and to challenge another instance of the Forest Service’s recent reduction of what qualifies as Canada lynx habitat.

“We are deeply disappointed that the government would authorize this destructive project on our public lands considering the number of court rulings that have found similar projects illegal because such projects violate a number

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