The Trout Slope West project would have seen the sale of 18,500 acres of trees in the Ashley National Forest according to the Utah Environmental Congress, which the group claims is home to “some of the most valuable old growth forest”.
Ashley National Forest was deemed to have been in breach of the National Forest Management Act when it agreed to the Trout Slope West project, as it failed to use best available science to assess the impact the logging would have on the area.
