Hot Spots: The Lamb Brook Decision
The three-year-old controversy over a proposed harvest in the Lamb Brook area of Green Mountain National Forest reached a new stage this past December, when U.S. District Court Judge J. Garvan Murtha ordered the U.S. Forest Service to prepare a full Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) regarding the proposed cut. As this issue went to press, the Forest Service was pondering whether to conduct the required EIS, appeal the court’s decision, or simply drop the Lamb Brook project. Either the EIS or an appeal could take months and involve considerable expense; dropping the project would presumably settle this issue, but leave others unresolved.
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