Group sues to save bull trout streams from logging damaged

By Laura Lundquist
Missoula Current
August 26, 2025
Category: Forestry

A nonprofit group is suing to stop the Lolo National Forest from logging areas around some of the best remaining bull trout spawning tributaries of the central Clark Fork River. On Friday, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies filed a complaint against the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in Missoula federal district court, challenging the approval of the second part of the Redd Bull logging project on the Lolo National Forest. The complaint says the project will further harm threatened bull trout because of the haul roads planned along some of the few streams where bull trout live and spawn. …Because the agencies didn’t do a full environmental study and look at the direct, indirect and cumulative effects all these projects had on bull trout in the middle Clark Fork, the Alliance for the Wild Rockies is accusing the agencies of violating the National Environmental Policy Act.

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