Loper Bright opens scrutiny of Forest Service's war on wildfires

Environmentalists say USFS abuses discretion to favor logging. Loper Bright offers new avenues to challenge project studies

The US Forest Service is fighting to keep in place a plan to raze the equivalent of 500 Central Parks in California’s forests as wildfires ravaging the southern part of the state put a spotlight on the agency’s management of these natural disasters.