Southern Environmental Law Center: Decision to Log Forest Ignores Public Input and Science, Threatens Trout Streams
May 27, 2020
May 27, 2020
ASHEVILLE, North Carolina, May 27 -- The Southern Environmental Law Center issued the following news release:
In a decision announced Friday, the Forest Service committed to charging ahead with irresponsible plans to log in the headwaters of the Nantahala River and Buck Creek in steep, backcountry areas of the Nantahala National Forest. Known as the "Buck project," the decision would log nearly 800 acres--the biggest logging project in the Nantahala National Forest in a ge . . .
In a decision announced Friday, the Forest Service committed to charging ahead with irresponsible plans to log in the headwaters of the Nantahala River and Buck Creek in steep, backcountry areas of the Nantahala National Forest. Known as the "Buck project," the decision would log nearly 800 acres--the biggest logging project in the Nantahala National Forest in a ge . . .