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Forest Service ignoring new info on grizzly bears in Gold Butterfly Project, complaint says

by KEILA SZPALLER Daily Montanan
| December 3, 2024 12:00 AM

New details about “recurring, verified” grizzly bears in the Sapphire Mountains are significant, and they require the U.S. Forest Service to conduct more environmental review for the Gold Butterfly Project, alleges an updated lawsuit against the federal agency.

Additional information about the presence of wolverines also requires more scrutiny at impacts the logging and road-building project on 55,147 acres of the Bitterroot National Forest will have on the animals, the lawsuit alleges.

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