Oregon court OKs logging project over owl, turtle concerns

EUGENE, Ore. — An Oregon federal court declined to enjoin the Bureau of Land Management from logging and constructing roads in southern Oregon, as requested by conservation groups who said the project would impact the northern spotted owl and failed to implement conservation measures for the northwestern pond turtle. The groups could not show that the agency’s use of location-based mitigation efforts, rather than timing-based ones, was arbitrary and capricious or inadequately explained.