Bulldog Project – update January 2025
KRCG settled its lawsuit challenging the Bulldog Restoration Project in the Kettle River Mountains of northeast Washington. The legal agreement with the U.S. Forest Service, reached on Jan. 23, 2025, protects important lynx habitat in the Colville National Forest generally, and modifies the Bulldog Project to protect lynx habitat and other important ecological value in the area. The group was represented by Western Environmental Law Center.
The Bulldog project will impact three Kettle River Range roadless areas including logging on 5,980 acres, 8,106 acres of thinning, and 13,944 acres of surface fuels treatments. The project would have had a significant impact on threatened Canada lynx. The legal agreement includes reestablishing Lynx Analysis Unit (LAU) boundaries established prior to 2020 until such time as a full evaluation of environmental impact of redrawing LAUs and public input to proposed change is conducted.
