The Tribune—Monroe County commissioners and environmental organizations have filed a lawsuit seeking to block the U.S. Forest Service’s implementation of the Houston South Vegetation Management and Restoration Project in the Hoosier National Forest.
In addition to the USFS’s failure to properly examine the impacts to Lake Monroe, the lawsuit claims the Forest Service is violating NEPA by failing to complete an environmental impact statement (EIS) for the Houston South Project, which is the largest logging and burning project in the history of the HNF.