More Colt Summit Legal Fun

Just when you thought there was no more fun to be had with Colt Summit, our colleague Eric Anderson has written a law review article that will be published this spring in the “Crit” — an alternative law review at the U of Idaho. Basically, it’s an in depth overview of the 9th circuit’s position … Read more

Colt Summit “Friends of the Court” Brief

This Dec. 21 editorial in the Missoulian, “Make collaboration work for MT,” mentions a friend of the court brief filed last week in the Ninth Circuit by a group including The Wilderness Society, plus “two former Forest Service chiefs, three Montana counties, conservation organizations, the hunting and angling communities, timber industry officials, wildlife biologists, and … Read more

Colt Summit: Judge dings Forest Service for failure to “prepare a supplemental environmental assessment”

The Colt Summit timber sale – and subsequent lawsuit – on the Lolo National Forest in Montana has been the source of much previous debate on this site, even though this is the first timber sale lawsuit on the Lolo NF in over 6 years.  Well, just today the next step in the legal process … Read more

Colt Summit: Researcher on Seeley Lake’s lynx and forest management

We’ve obviously had a number of in-depth discussions and debates about the Lolo National Forests’s Colt Summit timber sale in the Seeley-Swan Valley of western Montana. However, something just arrived in my in-box this morning, which I thought would be good to highlight here for further discussion. It’s a 2009 letter from John R. Squires
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