Environmental

Groups Join Legal Battle to Protect Rare Seabird from Timber Industry Attack

Marbled murrelet faces extinction without protection
Seattle, WA–(ENEWSPF)–April 10, 2012.  Seven conservation groups today moved to participate in a federal lawsuit brought by the timber industry to gut protections for the marbled murrelet and its critical nesting habitat in Washington, Oregon, and California. The suit D.C. district court, is the timber industry’s third such attempt in the last decade.
Despite undisputed scientific evidence that murrelets are disappearing from the Pacific Coast, the timber industry has set its sights, once again, on the small seabird in order to increase logging of forests over 100 years old. (NPS)
Despite undisputed scientific evidence that murrelets are disappearing from the Pacific Coast, the timber industry has…

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