Article: Jules Bars Forest Service from Logging Scorched Wood on New Mexico Land.

By Adam Rankin, Albuquerque Journal, N.M. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Feb. 6--SANTA FE, N.M. -- Concern over federally protected Mexican spotted owl habitat has derailed a logging project in the Jemez Mountains aimed at salvaging about 950 acres of burned national forest.

Late Wednesday, U.S. District Judge M. Christina Armijo ruled the U.S. Forest Service illegally allowed logging on a patch of forest protected as owl habitat.

The project, known as the Lakes and BMG timber salvage, was designed "to recover the timber value of fire-killed trees" and contribute to the regional economy, according to Forest Service documents, by ...

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