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Appeal filed in forest access case
Today, we filed our notice of appeal in Granat v. USDA, a challenge to the Forest Service's massive route-closure initiative on the Plumas National Forest in northeastern California. In 2005, the Forest Service promulgated a Travel Management Rule. The Rule's purpose was to formalize and combine the existing network of legally authorized government ...
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Fighting to keep public lands open to all
Yesterday, we filed our final trial court briefs in Granat v. USDA, PLF's challenge to the Forest Service's mass road and trail closure on the Plumas National Forest in northeastern California. Our case focuses on the agency's decision to close to all motor vehicle access nearly 700 miles of existing, legally authorized roads and trails without an ...
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Americans to the U.S. Forest Service : don't shut us out of our national forests
In a democracy, there are few things more troublesome to the body politic (or to just plain folks) than bureaucrats who ingest large doses of self-importance while trying to expand their limited powers. If it weren't so dangerous, it'd be pitiful. That's what's happening in Northern California at the Plumas National Forest, where the denizens o ...