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Environmental groups sued the U.S. Forest Service and others over a thinning and logging project planned in the Bitterroot National Forest they say would affect threatened bull trout, whitebark pine.
A consortium of conservation groups have again filed a lawsuit over a forest thinning and prescribed burn project planned in the Bitterroot National Forest
The lawsuit, filed Thursday in federal court in Missoula, challenges the Mud Creek Vegetation Management Project, which involves logging, thinning, and burning 48,486 acres within the Bitterroot National Forest.