The U.S. National Park Service is being blocked by environmentalists from taking out dead or excess trees in Yosemite National Park to prevent fires. They claim that this would harm conservation and be against federal law.
It Los Angeles TimesThis was reported last week
A U.S. district judge on Tuesday was expected to hear a request by the nonprofit Earth Island Institute for a preliminary injunction to halt the National Park Service’s ongoing “biomass removal project”The park covers nearly 2000 acres. Environmentalists claimed that the construction violated federal environmental regulations in a suit that they filed just a few days earlier.
Crews are authorized to take down thousands of trees that have fallen and to plant healthy ponderosa pines. White firs and incense cledars will be removed to lessen the danger to Yosemite Valley.
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However, it has led to a battle with Earth Island Institute. The institute filed Monday’s lawsuit against Yosemite National Park. Cicely Muldoon from the National Park Service and Interior Department are seeking to stop this project until they complete an environmental assessment and public review as required by the National Environmental Policy Act or NEPA.
California is in the midst of a potentially devastating season. The National Forests were once used to suppress and remove fires, but environmentalists are resisting logging.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) promised to clear excess fuel and dead trees from the state’s forests. Breitbart News reported in April that Gavin Newsom (D) had promised to clear excess fuel and dead trees from the state’s forests. Capital Public Radio also noted this, but his administration hadn’t completed a “single project”In the woods.
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