By Christophe Courchesne, Special to The Conway Daily Sun
CONCORD — Vermont Law and Graduate School’s Environmental Advocacy Clinic filed suit Monday in U.S. District Court on behalf of forest protection group Standing Trees. The suit challenges commercial logging projects OK’d by the U.S. Forest Service in the White Mountain National Forest, in Piermont and Gorham, N.H.
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