From The Associated Press, 8/22/06:
http://www.examiner.com/a-236015~Judge_rejects_Bush_plan_to_log_in_Sequoia_National_Monument.html#
U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer sided with state Attorney
General Bill Lockyer and environmental groups that sued the U.S.

From The Associated Press, 8/22/06:
http://www.examiner.com/a-236015~Judge_rejects_Bush_plan_to_log_in_Sequoia_National_Monument.html#

Judge rejects Bush plan to log in Sequoia National Monument

By TERENCE CHEA, The Associated Press

SAN FRANCISCO -

A federal judge on Tuesday blocked a Bush administration plan to allow
commercial logging in Giant Sequoia National Monument, home to
two-thirds of the world's largest trees.

U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer sided with state Attorney
General Bill Lockyer and environmental groups that sued the U.S.
Forest Service over plans to log about 3,200 acres of the 328,000-acre
preserve, home to 38 Sequoia groves in Central California.

"The Forest Service's interest in harvesting timber has trampled the
applicable environmental laws," Breyer wrote, calling the agency's
forest management plan "incomprehensible."

In lawsuits filed last year, Lockyer and conservation groups said the
agency's plan, issued in January 2004, violated the proclamation
signed by President Clinton in 2000 that established the national
monument to protect Sequoias, which can grow up to 270 feet tall and
30 feet in diameter.

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