Judge halts logging in owl habitat - AP

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Source: Associated Press

Judge halts logging in owl habitat

By Donna Gordon Blankinship, Associated Press Writer | August 1, 2007

SEATTLE --A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction
Wednesday to stop Weyerhaeuser Co. from logging in spotted
owl habitat on four parcels of private land in Washington.

U.S. District Judge Marsha J. Pechman did not grant, however,
an additional request by the Seattle Audubon Society to stop
the state of Washington from granting permits to log in spotted
owl habitat.

The injunction from logging covers spotted owl habitat within
2.7 miles of the center of four circles of land in southwestern
Washington that are owned by Weyerhaeuser.

"It really shows the Endangered Species Act still has some teeth
in it," said Kenan Block, a spokesman for the Washington Forest
Law Center.

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