Published: December 13th, 2009 10:10 PM
Last Modified: December 13th, 2009 10:11 PM
A federal judge in Anchorage has halted a timber sale in a roadless area of the Tongass National Forest in southeastern. District Court Judge John Sedwick issued an injunction last week and ordered the U.S. Forest Service to halt the Orion North timber sale.
The environmental group Earthjustice said the project was devised more than a decade ago. Since then, Earthjustice said, the costs of the timber sale have risen while the bottom has fallen out of Tongass timber markets.
The group said the project near Ketchikan would have cost taxpayers $1.6 million to build roads in the national forest, while generating only $140,635 from the trees.
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