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So many of the "green" groups (Sierra Club, etc.), file a lawsuit whenever a logging project is going to start. The logging could be by a private company that owns the land privately, or gov. logging. They hold it up in court forever.

The Kalmiopsis Wilderness Area in Oregon (the "biscuit" fire from last summer) was a prized area by all the greenies. It was their claim to fame because they had managed, over the last 20 years or so, to prevent any roads (dirt) to go in, or any brush clearing to be done let alone any logging (silly notion). Couldn't even manage existing roads. Completely hands off. When the fire started there was no way to stop it. There were no roads for fire crews to even get in there. It was a total loss of an incredibly beautiful places. All from their lawsuits.

There is more to that mess...USFS fire fighters got going the wrong way and went 180 degrees away from a fire in Oregon last summer. Finally they got turned around and got to the area of the fire.
In the meantime, the local ranchers were doing everything they could to help the endangered buildings on ranches. When the USFS arrived, the ranchers were hosing down the roof on a ranch house with the ranchers water. The ff had a hissy fit that such actions were being taken WITHOUT their permission and the ranchers told them this was the house of a widowed 80 year old woman. They apparently told the ff what they could do with their belated input. This attitude of the employees of the USFS, IMO, comes from the enviros infiltrating into these jobs, and making their own decisions regardless of common sense and what needs to be done to save the house of an 80 y/o woman.