Seven long years ago the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, with the support of local residents, took the Forest Service to federal court to halt the Hanna Flats logging, road-building, and burning project on the Idaho Panhandle National Forest in northern Idaho. Through a long and winding legal saga the good news — for grizzly bears, old-growth forests, and the local populace which strongly opposed the deforestation — is that a federal appeals court just ruled for the Alliance.

Seven long years ago the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, with the support of local residents, took the U.S. Forest Service to federal court to halt the Hanna Flats logging, road-building, and burning project on the Idaho Panhandle National Forests in northern Idaho.  Through a long and winding legal saga the good news — for grizzly […]

Clearcuts on land owned by a State of Alaska corporation, adjacent to the Tongass National Forest. - Photo credit: David Herasimtschuk for Ear…