{"id":1252,"date":"2011-10-21T22:07:20","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T22:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/?p=1252"},"modified":"2011-10-21T22:07:20","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T22:07:20","slug":"roadless-10th-cir-vacates-injunction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/roadless-10th-cir-vacates-injunction\/","title":{"rendered":"Roadless: 10th Cir. Vacates Injunction"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Roadless: \u00a0On October 21, 2011, the Tenth Circuit reversed the district court’s issuance of a permanent injunction. \u00a0The Court remanded to district court to vacate the permanent injunction. \u00a0“The district court abused its discretion in permanently enjoining the Roadless Rule on a nationwide basis…”<\/p>\n

US Forest Service issued this tweet on October 21:<\/p>\n

OFFICIAL STATEMENT For Immediate Release Contact: (202) 205-1134 Twitter: @forestservice<\/p>\n

“The US Forest Service is pleased that a federal appeals court has upheld the 2001 Roadless Rule The Obama Administration has been and remains a strong supporter of the protection of roadless areas. These areas are vital for protecting watersheds, providing recreation and hunting and fishing opportunities. We applaud this decision upholding the 2001 rule and are proud to have vigorously supported the rule in this case. The Roadless Rule prohibits road construction and timber cutting in 58.5 million acres of inventoried roadless areas, covering about 30 percent of the National Forest System.If you would rather not receive future communications from US Forest Service, let us know by clicking here.US Forest Service, 1400 Independence Avenue”<\/p>\n

Here is the statement by Mike King, Executive Director of the Colorado Department of\nNatural Resources, regarding today's ruling from the 10th Circuit:\n\n\"The Colorado Roadless Rule is based on the essential elements and\nstructure of the 2001 Roadless Rule that the 10th Circuit Court has\ntoday reaffirmed. Starting in 2005, Colorado has been engaged in an\nextensive public involvement process to develop consensus on a rule\nthat makes sense for the various needs and uses of our forests while\nalso finding ways to provide strong protection of these lands. That\nprocess has benefitted from updated backcountry inventories for true\nroadless characteristics, the identification of high-value fish and\nwildlife habitat, and developing narrowly-tailored accommodation of\nactivities critical to local economies that also includes wildfire\nprotection for mountain communities. In addition, this ruling does not\npreclude further litigation, which could continue to create\nuncertainty. As a result, we will continue working to finalize the\nColorado rule so we can provide clear and appropriate direction on the\nmanagement and protection of national forest roadless areas in\u00a0Colorado.\"\n<\/pre>\n
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October 31 — CWF, too, \u00a0read the decision and is conferring with others to figure out the impact of the decision on the Colorado Roadless Rule (CRR). \u00a0As we understand it, the 10th Circuit ruling does not preclude adoption of a state-specific rule. \u00a0Who knows how the politics will play out. \u00a0The CRR has\u00a0not been finalized yet. \u00a0See Our Stand (bottom left of the home page) for the recommendations developed by several organizations including CWF and submitted to the State on October 28. \u00a0 As of October 20, the US Forest Service, Region 2, was still reviewing the public comments submitted in July. \u00a0The next step is (or was) \u00a0for Region 2 to submit to Washington –unless the Court decision changes the process. \u00a0A final rule has been expected by year end or beginning of 2012. \u00a0CWF and others have continued to meet with Colorado Department of Natural Resources to urge incorporation of our recommendations made in our July 14 comment letter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Roadless: \u00a0On October 21, 2011, the Tenth Circuit reversed the district court’s issuance of a permanent injunction. \u00a0The Court remanded to district court to vacate the permanent injunction. \u00a0“The district court abused its discretion in permanently enjoining the Roadless Rule on a nationwide basis…” US Forest Service issued this tweet on October 21: OFFICIAL STATEMENT …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1252","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"anons"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coloradowildlife.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}