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Lawsuit refiled challenging Ore. logging increase

The Columbian
Published: April 8, 2011, 12:00am

GRANTS PASS, Ore./ (AP) — Conservation groups have refiled a lawsuit challenging the Bush administration plan to double logging on some federal lands in Western Oregon.

Earthjustice attorney Kristen Boyles says the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Portland on Friday is a precaution against the possibility that the Obama administration may decide to let stand the so-called Western Oregon Plan Revision, which was the Bush administration’s last ditch attempt to make good on a promise to the timber industry to increase logging before leaving office.

In a lawsuit brought by the timber industry, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled last week that Interior Secretary Ken Salazar violated federal law by failing to take public comments before withdrawing the plan as legally indefensible.

Salazar has yet to say what he plans to do.

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