SAVANNAH, Ga. AP – A federal ruling that the Army Corps of Engineers wrongly waived a permit for logging on a private lake has clarified an exemption in pollution laws and could lead to better wetland protection, an environmental group said Monday.
The Southern Environmental Law Center sued in 2006 over the Corps’ decision that owners of Cypress Lake didn’t need a logging permit to cut down cypress, swamp blackgum and water tupelo trees growing on 60 acres of the manmade lake near Statesboro.