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December 9, 2011

Group sues to keep trees along Idaho levee

  • The Kootenai Environmental Alliance claims the Army Corps didn't do an environmental analysis on the levee before ordering the city of Coeur d'Alene to remove the trees.

    • COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho (AP) — An environmental group has filed a federal lawsuit against the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in a bid to protect hundreds of old trees lining an earthen levee and popular public trail in Coeur d'Alene.

    The Kootenai Environmental Alliance filed its lawsuit Wednesday in U.S. District Court in Spokane in response to the corps' order earlier this year to have the city remove the trees.


     
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