Judge halts Tongass timber sale By The Associated Press ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A federal judge in Anchorage has halted a timber sale in a roadless area of the Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska. District Court Judge John Sedwick issued an injunction Monday and ordered the U.S. Forest Service to halt the Orion North timber sale. The environmental group Earthjustice says the project was devised more than a decade ago. Since then, Earthjustice says, the costs of the timber sale have skyrocketed while the bottom has fallen out of Tongass timber markets. The group says the project near Ketchikan would have cost taxpayers $1.6 million to build roads in the national forest, while generating only $140,635 from the trees. © Copyright 2009, The Anchorage Daily News, a subsidiary of The McClatchy Company ____________________________________________________________ Hotel Hotel pics, info and virtual tours. Click here to book a hotel online. http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/c?cp=TdAowSHu4RmmQc4PRMEAogAAJ1CqhysHoqKPmxy1AMlPj2phAAYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAADNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATRAAAAAA= - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - To unsubscribe from the IOWA-TOPICS list, send any message to: [log in to unmask] Check out our Listserv Lists support site for more information: http://www.sierraclub.org/lists/faq.asp Sign up to receive Sierra Club Insider, the flagship e-newsletter. Sent out twice a month, it features the Club's latest news and activities. Subscribe and view recent editions at http://www.sierraclub.org/insider/