A map of the Peabody West Integrated Resource Project, one of two commercial logging projects the environmental group Standing Trees filed suit in U.S. District Court to stop. A federal judge this month rule in the U.S. Forest Service's favor, allowing the logging project to go forward. (COURTESY PHOTO)
A map of the Peabody West Integrated Resource Project, one of two commercial logging projects the environmental group Standing Trees filed suit in U.S. District Court to stop. A federal judge this month rule in the U.S. Forest Service's favor, allowing the logging project to go forward. (COURTESY PHOTO)
GORHAM — A federal court has ruled against a lawsuit that sought to stop two commercial logging projects on the White Mountain National Forest, including the Peabody West Integrated Resource Project in Gorham.
U.S. District Court for New Hampshire Judge Joseph N. LaPlante ruled for the U.S. Forest Service in a lawsuit filed by the environmental group, Standing Trees, challenging the Forest Service’s decision to approve the Peabody West Integrated Resource Project and the Tarleton Integrated Resource Project.
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