Friday, July 03, 2009

Judge rejects Bush-era rules for national forests

A federal judge has thrown out rules the Bush administration adopted for managing national forests and grasslands because they "failed to analyze the effects from removing requirements guaranteeing viable wildlife populations," Noelle Straub reports for The New York Times' Greenwire blog. "The decision "marks the third time a court has rejected revisions of the regulations over the past decade."

"Conservation groups hope the Forest Service will reinstate the 1982 rule while coming up with new regulations," according to Marc Fink, attorney for the Center for Biological Diversity and one of the attorneys representing the plaintiffs in the case. "Forest Service spokesman Joe Walsh said the decision is under review," Straub reports.

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