9th Circuit Upholds Denial Of Injunction For Salvage Logging In Burned Forest

Mealey's (December 8, 2016, 10:59 AM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A federal court properly denied an injunction to halt salvage logging in a large burned area of the Klamath National Forest in California because an Indian tribe and others challenging the project are not likely to succeed on their claims that the project violates federal environmental laws and threatens the northern spotted owl and coho salmon, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held Dec. 5 (Karuk Tribe, et al. v. William Stelle, et al., No. 16-15818, 9th Cir.; 2016 U.S. App. LEXIS 21637)....