Groups sue Forest Service over timber project

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By The Associated Press

Story Published: Jul 2, 2008 at 5:17 PM MST

Story Updated: Jul 2, 2008 at 5:17 PM MST

MISSOULA - A spokesman for the U.S. Forest Service says logging planned in the Gallatin National Forest, north of Livingston, is a good project that would reduce fire fuels in the wildland-urban interface. A lawsuit by two groups challenges the project.

Steve Kratville, of the Forest Service, says it went through a process for public review. Plaintiffs in the lawsuit, filed this week, are the Alliance for the Wild Rockies and Native Ecosystems Council. At issue is logging planned for 692 acres in the Crazy Mountains.

The lawsuit says it would violate the Gallatin National Forest's overarching plan, and its provisions for Yellowstone cutthroat trout, big game, old-growth trees and dead trees.

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