Court halts watershed logging

By Emma Maple
Peninsula Daily News
May 9, 2025
Category: Forestry
Region: United States, US West

PORT ANGELES — A Clallam County Superior Court judge has issued a temporary restraining order to halt all logging activity in two Elwha River watershed forest parcels for 14 days. As double assurance the forests are not logged, activists have placed debris in the middle of a road, blocking logging access to Units 3, 4 and 6 of a timber sale called Parched. …Together, these actions have temporarily halted logging-related activity for about 300 acres in the state Department of Natural Resources (DNR) parcels named Parched and Tree Well. The parcels are currently being litigated on two fronts. …Judge Elizabeth Stanley’s order, issued Wednesday, stated that the LFDC demonstrated that “immediate and irreparable harm, including construction of roads, environmental damage and loss of forest resources within the boundaries of the Parched and Tree Well sales, will occur absent immediate injunctive relief.”

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