Judge halts Kootenai logging project over impacts on grizzlies
A grizzly bear in Yellowstone National Park. (Jeremy Weber/Daily Inter Lake)
A federal judge has halted a logging project in the Kootenai National Forest, saying the federal government failed to correctly analyze the impacts to grizzly bears.
The Knotty Pine Project, a 10-year project that would have authorized 7,465 acres of prescribed burning and 2,593 acres of commercial harvest in the Cabinet-Yaak Mountains, has been in litigation since 2022.
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