<p>Environmental groups hailed a Humboldt County Superior Court judge's unexpected ruling ordering a temporary halt to logging by Pacific Lumber Co.</p>
<p>Judge John Golden ordered the halt after state agencies that oversee timber harvests delayed three years before submitting a formal administrative record. The judge said that record purportedly encompasses "about 75,000 pages of material contained within 47 cardboard 'bankers boxes."'</p>