Yet another environmental rule change made by the Bush administration has been struck down by federal courts.
A U.S. District judge ruled that the U.S. Forest Service did not adequately examine the environmental impacts that would result from changing a rule designed to protect the Northern spotted owl from logging.
The ruling marked the third time federal courts have turned back attempts to change the 1984 version of what is known as the viability rule within the National Forest Management Act.
"I am hopeful that this is the last nail in the coffin to (President George W.) Bush’s assault on our public forests," said Pete Frost, an attorney for the Western Environmental Law Center in Eugene, which represented plaintiffs in one of two cases challenging the rule.
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