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Legal VictoriesUsing a barrage of well-aimed appeals and lawsuits against the Flathead, Swan View, Friends of the Wild Swan and other grassroots groups have brought its wishful 75 miles-per-year new road construction program down to essentially zero and replaced it with a 10-year program to instead obliterate some 650 miles of its forest roads. In turn, our lawsuits have helped lower its official 100 million board foot-per-year timber sale target to 54. Meanwhile, the miles of road closed to motor vehicles have come to outnumber the miles left open by nearly 2:1 and road engineering staff on the Flathead has shrunk from 130 to 34. See also What We Have Accomplished on the Flathead National Forest .
A lawsuit filed against the Flathead Forest Plan's proposed "management" (a.k.a. "logging") of old-growth has resulted in the withdrawl of plans to log the largest continuous old-growth forest outside of wilderness via the Lost Silver Timber Sale, and the withdrawl of plans to log significant areas of old-growth forest via the Middle Fork Timber Sale and Bent Flat Timber Sale.
A lawsuit filed in 1990 ended the permitted hunting of grizzly bear, which was causing half of the known human-caused mortality to grizzly bears in the Glacier-Bob Marshall Ecosystem.
A lawsuit filed against the revised Grizzly Bear Recovery Plan has delayed for years federal efforts to remove Endangered Species Act protections from the grizzly bear and established clear public involvement procedures that must be carried out before delisting can be attempted.
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