Sierra Nevada Forest Protection Campaign v. Rey

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• noting that the amount of old forest habitat used by owl, fisher and marten is projected to increase in the region under the 2004 Framework
• finding impacts of the Framework to old-growth habitat used by the old-forest species will be “minimal”
• noting the 2004 Framework' decreases acres of habitat lost to wildfire more than 2001 Framework
• noting that under the 2004 Framework, no treatments are expected in 86 percent of Old Forest Emphasis Areas (“OFEAs”), and only minimal amounts of the most important owl habitat areas, such as Protected Activity Centers (“PACs”) and Home Range Core Areas (“HCRAs”), will be impacted
• “[T]he amount of old forest is projected to increase across the bioregion” under the 2004 Framework.
• “[R]eeent fire seasons illustrate the risks from inaction as the number and severity of acres burned in wildfires continues to increase, with tragic, losses to communities, their people and resources, as well as to wildland firefighters.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).