Conservation groups have filed a lawsuit against the United States Forest Service for what they’re calling a “massive” project that encompasses more than 73,000 acres and covers 115 square miles in the Anaconda-Pintler Wilderness Area. Those groups have urged the federal district court to take immediate action because they say the logging project has already […] The post Conservation groups say ‘massive’ Pintler Wilderness logging project should be stopped appeared first on Daily Montanan.
Tribes in far northeastern California are pressing President Joe Biden to create a new national monument about 30 miles from Mount Shasta. The Pit River Tribe is asking the president to use his powers under the Antiquities Act to create the new Sáttítla National Monument on just over 205,000 acres in the Medicine Lake Highlands. Radley Davis, an advocate for the Sáttítla National Monument and a citizen of the Illmawi Band of the Pit River Tribe, said the area is a very important watershed. .