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Not long ago, we asked our members and supporters to speak up for Eastern Oregon’s old-growth forests. As expected, Trump's Forest Service didn’t listen. Now the Biden administration is defending a grievous mistake.
Worse yet, in a recent email many of our members received, the Forest Service claimed they had strengthened protections. It’s simply not true, and we want to set the record straight.
Mike Garrity and Jason Christensen: Bidenâs Forest Service halts Trump plan to burn down Targhee National Forest
Northern Rockies Ecosystem Protection Act would protect national forests.
By Mike Garrity and Jason Christensen | Special to The Tribune
  | April 13, 2021, 4:26 p.m.
One of the Trump administrationâs worst projects, which would have burned a million acres of the Caribou-Targhee National Forest, has been halted in its tracks by Bidenâs Forest Service after the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Native Ecosystems Council and Yellowstone to Uintas submitted detailed comments opposing this insane idea.
The Targhee Prescribed Fire project was stuffed through in the closing days of the Trump administration and would undoubtedly have been ruled illegal since the agency attempted to use a categorical exclusion to avoid environmental analysis on the project, which would have burned a million acres of the Targhee portion of the Caribou-Targhee National Forest,