The forest-thinning project, which authorities say would be aimed at removing fuel for wildfires, has been temporarily halted by a federal judge.
A controversial plan to expand logging in Yosemite National Park has been temporarily halted under a recent court order from a federal judge.across nearly 2,000 acres of Yosemite. Federal authorities say the forest-thinning project would be aimed at removing dead trees that can provide fuel for wildfires.
The court order calls for only limited rehabilitation work along Merced Grove Road and states that “no trees will be cut during this work.”The Washburn fire, burning in the area of the famed Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias, had grown to 60 to 70 acres shortly after 7 p.m. Last year, more than 200 scientists signed a letter to Congress and President Biden warning of commercial logging’s potential to increase carbon emissions and worsen the climate crisis, according to the John Muir Project. The
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