An environmental group is challenging a second Forest Service plan for logging in New Hampshire’s White Mountains.
Vermont Law and Graduate School’s Environmental Advocacy Clinic filed suit Monday on behalf of Standing Trees, arguing that the Forest Service violated federal law by failing to consider various environmental factors when it approved a commercial logging project near a popular hiking area.
Filed in U.S. District Court for the District of New Hampshire, the complaint asks the court to stop the Sandwich Vegetation Management Project in the Sandwich Range until a full environmental review is completed.
The project authorizes 638 acres of commercial timber harvest across 1,325 acres of what the group says is predominantly mature and old forest. It also calls for prescribed burns on 306 acres and more than 16 miles of road construction and reconstruction.
