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Colville Tribe Suing U.S. for Forest Failures in Large 2015 Fires
The Colville Tribes are suing the U.S. over large wildfires in 2015. The tribes claim massive fires were the result of the federal government's failure to protect forests with operations such as prescribed burning. The lawsuit says the North Star and Tunk Block fires burned more than 240,000 acres on the Colville Reservation and destroyed 800 million feet of their commercial timber ...