Court rejects timber industry attack on threatened seabird.
Court rejects timber industry attack on threatened seabird.
WASHINGTON DC—On February 5 the courts thwarted the timber industry’s latest attack on the marbled murrelet. In response to a Center lawsuit, the court rejected the industry’s plea to remove the bird from the endangered species list. Had the timber industry’s lawsuit been successful, much of the murrelet’s old-growth forest habitat would have been open for logging.
The marbled murrelet is a small seabird that nests in old-growth forests along the Pacific Coast of North America. In 1992, the Fish and Wildlife Service listed murrelet populations in Washington, Oregon, and California as threatened due to logging of their habitat. Despite undisputed scientific evidence that murrelets are disappearing from the Pacific Coast, the timber industry continues to set its sights on the small seabird to increase logging of trees over 100 years old.
via Center for Biological Diversity
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