Time to Manage our Forests and Stop Allowing Fringe Groups to Win in
Court
Last Tuesday, I chaired a forest management roundtable
with U.S. Forest Service Chief Vicki
Christiansen, Department of the Interior Assistant Secretary Susan
Combs and Wyoming County Commissioner Joel
Bousman.
We focused
on the devastating impact frivolous litigation has on forest
management projects, specifically how the Ninth Circuit
Court’s Cottonwood decision is being used by fringe environmental
groups to block forest management projects without benefit
to conservation or species
protections.
Today, there are approximately nine
active lawsuits in Montana threatening important forest management
projects. Even worse… RY Timber in Townsend just shut down
largely due to litigation.
These
radical environmentalists are killing jobs all across
Montana, and that’s why I’m fighting to bring
commonsense forest management back to Montana.
I’ll soon be introducing bipartisan forestry
legislation to address the Cottonwood decision and help us better manage
our forests from deadly wildfires.
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Steve Daines
United States Senate
