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Don’t blame judges or conservationists when the Forest Service breaks the law – Daily Montanan [1]

['More From Author', 'September', 'George Ochenski']

Date: 2023-09-15  

A recent column by an Oregon timber industry mouthpiece assailed two of Montana’s federal court judges claiming: “Bad juju is drifting through the halls of the U.S. Federal Courthouse in Missoula.”

Apparently he thinks it’s “bad juju” because they found the U.S. Forest Service’s planned logging projects in Northwest Montana violated federal law. Not only is he wrong on the law, apparently he doesn’t even know what “juju” means.

The definition of juju surely has nothing to do with a court of law — or the rulings by two highly competent federal judges, both of whom have seen numerous cases involving the Forest Service’s endless attempts to get around the requirements of laws specifically enacted to regulate resource extraction and prevent threatened and endangered species from extinction.

But let’s start with “juju.” According to most definitions, juju means: “Anything supernatural or mysterious, and an object of religious fear or veneration; a charm; a fetish; also, an observance of mysterious significance like the taboo: used in relation to the religious ideas of West Africans.”

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