The Alliance for the Wild Rockies, Council on Wildlife and Fish, and Native Ecosystems Council filed a lawsuit in federal district court against the Custer Gallatin National Forest to stop them from sacrificing habitat for lynx, grizzly bear, elk and whitebark pine trees near the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and just north of Yellowstone National Park to subsidize the timber industry. …The groups first sued to stop the Greater Red Lodge logging project west of Red Lodge, Montana in July 2015 and again 2021. In both cases, the court ruled that the Forest Service violated the Endangered Species Act because the logging would have harmed lynx critical habitat. …They are effectively a single, landscape-scale logging project that the Forest Service illegally split into two. …To get around the requirements to protect lynx habitat and actually analyze the effects of logging on wildlife, the Forest Service authorized the logging projects under the Healthy Forest Restoration Act.