Pine Grosbeaks. Photo by Neil Hannan, Courtesy NPS.

A few years ago, The Wilderness Society and the Sierra Club filed a lawsuit to stop logging in an inventoried roadless area in the White Mountain National Forest. The legal action caused quite a stir in New Hampshire conservation circles. A number of organizations even filed a friend-of-the-court brief supporting the Forest Service plan to log in the Wild River roadless area. I was a bit surprised that “conservation” groups would go out of their way to support logging. Read more