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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,
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Last December the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Native Ecosystems Council, and Yellowstone to Uintas Connection took the Trump administration s Forest Service to federal court over plans to massively log and burn over 40,000 acres in the very headwaters of the world-famous Henryâs Fork of the Snake River. We are exceptionally pleased to announce that due to the very serious legal challenges we brought as well as the change in administrations, the Middle Henry s Fork project has been canceled.
The clear waters of this incredible wild trout fishery wind through the mile-high caldera on the border of Yellowstone National Park. Besides being voted No. 1 out of the nation s top 100 flyfishing rivers by Trout Unlimited, the headwaters of this huge drainage contain what s left of the Caribou-Targhee National Forest s old-growth stands and provides irreplaceable habitat for grizzly bear, lynx, wolverine, gray wolf, boreal toad, Columbia spotted frog, American three-toed woodp