On July 13, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit decided the case of United States v. Sierra Pacific Industries, et al. This is referred to as the “Moonlight Fire” case. The Ninth Circuit ...

WASHINGTON – When the country’s second-largest lumber producer tries to take the U.S. Justice Department to the Supreme Court over a forest fire that started under the distracted gaze of a watchtower ...

Haze hangs over firefighters battling the Moonlight fire in 2007. Anne Chadwick Williams Sacramento Bee A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected efforts by Sierra Pacific Industries to back out of ...

SACRAMENTO (AP) - A Plumas County Superior Court judge has dismissed a state lawsuit against California's largest timber company for a 2007 wildfire that destroyed more than 100 square miles of forest ...

SACRAMENTO, July 17 (UPI) -- The United States has settled a suit against a logging company for $122.5 million in money and land over California's Moonlight Fire. The forest fire was among the most ...

A California wildfire that sparked allegations of corruption and evidence-tampering among federal agencies has caught the attention of the Senate Judiciary Committee. Sens. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, ...

SAN FRANCISCO – The Ninth Circuit ruled Thursday that timber giant Sierra Pacific and others can’t duck a settlement with the feds over the 2007 Moonlight Fire, finding the company didn’t prove that ...

When the country’s second-largest lumber producer tries to take the U.S. Justice Department to the Supreme Court over a forest fire that started under the distracted gaze of a watchtower forester – ...

A canopy of burned pine trees in June 2008 shows the damage caused by the Moonlight fire in Plumas County, where two fires the year before burned a huge chunk of the heavily forested county. Randy ...

Smoke, and even ash, from the Moonlight Fire in the Plumas National Forest continued to plague the north valley this morning. Overnight the fire functionally exploded, expanding from about 15,000 ...

First there’s the spark, then the conflagration, followed by the litigation and then, surely, the movie. Call it “Moonlight Fire,” and prepare to suspend disbelief. The story is a doozy — a tale of ...