Wildlife groups sue feds over California logging

By Scott Smith
Published September 4, 2014 10:38pm ET
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Wildlife groups sue feds over California logging
FILE - In this Sept. 25, 2013, file photo an excavator removes trees that were bulldozed for a firebreak in the battle against Rim Fire along Dodge Ridge in the Stanislaus National Forest, near Tuolumne City, Calif. Wildlife advocates on Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2014, plan to sue the U.S. Forest Service, attempting to block part of a recently unveiled plan for logging trees burned last year in the massive Sierra Nevada wildfire. The Center for Biological Diversity argues that federal forestry officials have ignored science showing that the California spotted owl population has soared since the Rim Fire scorched 400 square miles. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli, File) | Rich Pedroncelli

FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Environmentalists filed a lawsuit Thursday against a federal agency, saying it aims to protect the California spotted owl living in the burned forests marked for logging after the third-largest wildfire in state history.

The Center for Biological Diversity and two other groups seek an injunction against the U.S. Forest Service, which unveiled a plan last week to allow logging on 52 square miles of forest killed in the massive central California blaze. The Rim Fire started Aug. 17, 2013, and scorched 400 square miles of the Stanislaus National Forest, Yosemite National Park’s backcountry and private timber land.

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