Carlson

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA 6 ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION Case No. 19-cv-06643-EMC

INFORMATION CENTER,

8 Plaintiff, ORDER DENYING PLAINTIFF’S MOTION FOR PRELIMINARY v. INJUNCTION 10 ANN CARLSON, et al., Docket No. 11 11 Defendants. 12 13 I. INTRODUCTION The United States Forest Service approved six logging projects to mitigate the safety hazards affecting the roads in Mendocino National Forest. These projects will allow commercial logging of nearly 7,000 acres of trees that are dead, dying, and/or live trees that are rapidly deteriorating such that they pose a risk of falling onto the public roadway. The operations of two projects have already begun. Plaintiff Environmental Protection Information Center (“EPIC”) moves the Court for a preliminary injunction “to preserve the status quo pending resolution of the case, allow[] only the felling of hazard trees which are imminently likely to fall into a roadway [or] other…