G-O Road Blocked

G-O Road Blocked

Judge Stanley Weigel ruled in a forty-three page decision that the completion of the Gasquet Orleans Road would violate the First Amendment Rights of the Karuk, Tolowa, and Yurok tribes.

Judge Weigel stopped timber harvesting and other related activities in the Blue Creek area which is sacred land known as the High Country.

Andrew Alm

Humboldt State Special Collections

Times Standard

05/26/1983

English

2 Page

Humboldt County Pamphlet Collection
Six Rivers National Forest: Gasquet-Orleans Folder

Judge Weigel also ruled that the construction of the road would violate the National Environmental Policy Act, the Wilderness Act, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as well as Indian Water and Fishing Rights.

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