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Congress Challenges Public Land Plans | Salt Lake City News
Congress just unleashed the Congressional Review Act — a rarely used legal weapon — to dismantle decades-old land-use plans managing everything from logging to grazing on public lands. In a move legal experts are calling the “nuclear option,” lawmakers are now facing a major legal showdown as conservation groups like Cascadia Wildlands sue to invalidate timber projects like the Aloha Trout Forest Management Plan, arguing these plans don’t meet CRA standards. If successful, this lawsuit could unravel thousands of existing land-use plans, reshaping public land management nationwide. Officials…
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