The State - News from May 20, 1988

A federal appeals court in San Francisco has ordered the Bureau of Land Management to refrain from letting new contracts to cut old-growth timber in western Oregon pending further hearings on a lawsuit aimed at protecting the northern spotted owl. Victor Sher, an attorney with the Sierra Club’s Legal Defense Fund, said the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments July 19 on the appeal of a district court’s dismissal of the case. Environmentalists claim new information reveals an imminent threat to the northern spotted owl, which lives in older forests.