Lawsuit: Forest Service ignoring more than 1 million acres of lynx habitat to OK logging, burning

By: Darrell Ehrlick

Outlets: Daily Montanan

Published: February 26, 2026

Words: 763

Last Updated: 1 week, 6 days ago

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A new lawsuit filed by four conservation groups alleges that the United States Forest Service approved a large logging project in southern Montana by ignoring habitat critical to Canada lynx and grizzly bears, disregarding scientific input and either disregarding or shortening public input.

The suit, filed in federal court in Missoula, alleges that the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest decided to disregard more than 1.1 million acres of mapped lynx habitat in order to green-light a commercial …

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