Environmental

Court Throws Out Industry Challenge to 2012 Forestry Rules

USFS Will Continue to Use Science and Conservation Biology in Forest Plans

WASHINGTON —(ENEWSPF)—April 30, 2015. In March 2015, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the D.C. District Court issued an order rejecting an extractive industry challenge to the Obama Administration’s National Forest Management Act 2012 Forest Planning Rule. The challenge alleged that the rule inappropriately requires the U.S. Forest Service to use science and conservation biology when creating new forest plans, which guide management on…

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