Judge overturns Bush-era logging rule

msnbc.com ^ | July 1, 2009 | AP story

[smokingfrog]

GRANTS PASS, Ore. - A federal judge has struck down the Bush administration's change to a rule designed to protect the northern spotted owl from logging in national forests.

U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken ruled from Oakland, Calif., on Tuesday that the U.S. Forest Service failed to take a hard look at the environmental impacts of changing the rule to make it easier to cut down forest habitat of species such as the spotted owl and salmon on 193 million acres of national forests.

"I am hopeful that this is the last nail in the coffin to (President George W.) Bush's assault on our public forests," said Pete Frost, an attorney for the Western Environmental Law Center in Eugene, which represented plaintiffs in one of two cases challenging the rule.

[smokingfrog]

       Those damn lumberjack owls.

[JerseyJohn61]

I hope it makes these activists happy the next time an over
mature forest goes up in flames, taking thousands of acres,
all the wildlife and possibly some locals and smoke-eaters
with it.

JJ61

[rfp1234]

...U.S. Forest Service failed to take a hard look at the environmental impacts of changing the rule to make it easier to cut down forest habitat of species such as the spotted owl and salmon...

"If you do not appease us, you will be forced to cut down the mightiest tree in the forest...with a herring salmon!"

[smokingfrog]

[truthguy]

I hope it makes these activists happy the next time an over mature forest goes up in flames,

Yes you are absolutely right about this. This is another one of the untold scandals, how the so called environmentalists have burned down millions of acres and killed millions of animals. The Sierra Club is one of the great frauds of all time. They have been taken over by scum of the earth trial lawyers who have worked out an elaborate scam with their equally contemptible judges to profit off of the environmental movement.

They profess to be for the environment but they are really out for themselves.

Someone needs to write a book about this to make the public aware of what's going on in this area. I do my best to inform everyone I know about what a disaster these organizations are but I'm not a trained journalist.

[blueplum]

and plywood goes up to $25/sheet

[JerseyJohn61]

Agree totally my friend.

Even the Native Americans practiced forms of forest
management with Slash and Burn agriculture and other
forms of denuding woodlands. Each practice renewed and
regenerated the forest and created various bio systems
beneficial to all who dwell in the forest.

JJ61

[VeniVidiVici]

Oregon has the 2d highest unemployment rate in the US.

I wonder why?

[Islander7]

Wilken, Claudia Ann

Born 1949 in Minneapolis, MN

Federal Judicial Service:
Judge, U. S. District Court, Northern District of California

Nominated by William J. Clinton on October 7, 1993, to a new seat created by 104 Stat. 5089;
Confirmed by the Senate on November 20, 1993, and received commission on November 22, 1993.

U.S. Magistrate, U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, 1983-1993

Education:
Stanford University, B.A., 1971

University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, J.D., 1975

Professional Career:
Staff attorney, Federal Public Defender's Office, Northern District of California, 1975-1978
Private practice, Berkeley, California, 1978-1984
Adjunct professor, University of California, Boalt Hall School of Law, 1978-1984
Professor, New College School of Law, 1980-1985

Race or Ethnicity: White

Gender: Female

[lbama]

We’ve plenty of trees here in Alabama. They cut them every day and replant. But, they just shut down a plywood mill. Prices should stagnate because there is little demand.

[Sender]

Only in Berkeley do they teach that salmon live in trees.

[smokingfrog]

Too bad she’s white. Sounds like SCOTUS material. /sarc

[the_devils_advocate_666]

193 million acres

So logging on a few million acres will endanger the poor owls because they'll only have maybe, oh, 180 million acres to live on?

[Superiorryan]

ya, i was wondering if they where still fishes.