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Lawsuit challenges Bush plan to boost logging
Source: Copyright 2008, Associated Press
Date: October 29, 2008
Byline: Jeff Barnard
Original URL: Status ONLINE
Conservation groups are trying to stop the Bush administration from rushing to judgment with a last-ditch plan to boost logging in Oregon old growth forests before their time in office runs out.
A lawsuit filed Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Portland charges that the U.S. Department of Interior and the Oregon office of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management violated federal laws by prohibiting administrative appeals of their Western Oregon Plan Revision.
That process would typically add more than a month to final approval, which is slated for late December.
"This is really aimed to undo this latest Bush administration attempt to cut the public out of the process in its haste to get their decisions out the door before its administration ends," said Kristen Boyles, an attorney for the public interest law firm Earthjustice in Seattle.
The effort to rush through approval for increased logging comes on the heels of other Bush ...
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