The Western Watersheds Project (and some others) filed an appeal concerning the local USFS’s ranger’s ruling concerning the Franklin Basin allotment. On December 9, 2009, the USDA, through the Forest Supervisor, Brian Ferebee, sided with WWP.
Court orders cattle grazing to temporarily stop in Oregon’s eastern Malheur National Forest. The measure is to help protect native trout species (including steelhead).