by Oliver Stiefel | Mar 15, 2016 | Features, News, Public Lands News
The Alaska Regional Forester has put a major logging project in the Tongass National Forest on hold, in response to administrative objections filed by Crag’s clients. The Saddle Lakes Timber Sale, located near Ketchikan on Revillagigedo Island, called for about...
by Oliver Stiefel | Nov 18, 2015 | News, Public Lands News
Forest Service Backs Down, Cancels Controversial Tongass Old-growth Timber Sale PETERSBURG, Alaska— The U.S. Forest Service has formally withdrawn its March authorization of the Mitkof Island Project — a large, 35-million-board-foot timber sale — through documents...
by Courtney Johnson | Nov 7, 2014 | Coastal Law Project News, Features, Fighting Fossil Fuels News, News
Today, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) released its long-awaited Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Jordan Cove-Pacific Connector LNG export terminal and pipeline. Crag is working with a coalition of conservation groups and individual...
by Courtney Johnson | Sep 29, 2014 | Features, News, Wildlife News
The U.S. District Court in Anchorage issued a decision Friday on the Islands Wolf lawsuit centered in Southeast Alaska. The decision has now, for the second time, stopped four Tongass National Forest logging projects. Crag has represented Greenpeace and Cascadia...
by Oliver Stiefel | Sep 2, 2014 | Blog
Last week, reports surfaced that an eastern Oregon wolf pack is “one strike” away from a potential kill order. GPS collars revealed that two wolves from the Umatilla River pack were nearby where a sheep was killed on August 20th. Because this is the pack’s third...