Big Thorne Project
ELR Citation: 45 ELR 20056 No(s). 1:14-cv-0013-RRB (D. Alaska Mar 20, 2015) (Beistline, J.)
A district court upheld the U.S. Forest Service's approval of the Big Thorne Project in the Tongass National Forest, thereby allowing the logging of approximately 6,186 acres of old growth forest and construction of 46.1 miles of new Forest Service roads to begin on April 1, 2015. Environmental grou...