A recent federal court ruling tossing out a streamlined environmental review for three Oregon timber projects will point the way for conservation groups to challenge the Trump administration’s nationwide logging agenda, natural resources attorneys say. Judge Michael McShane of the US District Court for the District of Oregon in his Jan. 13 ruling set aside a categorical exclusion under the National Environmental Policy Act called “CE-6.” The 1992 exclusion allowed for quick approval of logging projects designed to thin forests to reduce wildfire hazards. Fast-tracking an expansion of logging on federal land is among President Donald Trump’s top priorities in order to cut lumber imports and grow domestic timber industry jobs. The administration is loosening public notice and environmental review requirements for logging and other projects under NEPA, and it’s rolling back protections for roadless areas in national forests in order to open them to possible logging projects.