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A federal judge last week ruled in support of a Bureau of Land Management effort to restrict bureaucratic delays to timber harvests and fuel reduction projects on BLM lands.

U.S. District Judge Michael J. McShane on March 27 granted summary judgment in favor of the BLM’s 2020 Final Rule eliminating the agency’s protest process which, the agency argued, had resulted in unnecessary bureaucratic delays to timber harvests and fuel reduction projects on BLM-managed lands, including more than 2 million acres of OandC lands in Western Oregon that must be managed on a sustained-yield basis....