61.   When he shut down timber sales more than three years ago, the federal judge bitterly criticized federal agencies for ignoring and circumventing environmental laws.

62.   While supposedly directed at dead trees, what it really did was direct some federal timber sales to go ahead regardless of environmental cost.

63.   Yet the Mount Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest is hard pressed to meet its annual goal for timber sales, says Chris Andersen, its chief timber officer.

64.   Pierce said the agency did not immediately know how many timber sales are affected by the injunction.

65.   A federal judge has ordered the U.S. Forest Service to halt a type of timber sale that the agency had exempted from environmental impact reviews.

66.   First a judge blocked timber sales in the Chattahoochee National Forest in the South.

67.   He did not immediately know how many timber sales are affected by the injunction.

68.   In a decision that could affect logging nationwide, a federal judge has ordered the federal government to stop certain timber sales that were exempted from environmental impact reviews.

69.   It would give the Forest Service the go-ahead to proceed with timber sales using a more limited species assessment.

70.   Some environmentalists had wanted the timber sales stopped immediately.