Children and family members gather at the Barney Pond in Forest Park for the Springfield Lodge of Elks 58th Annual Cote-Sullivan Youth Fishing Derby Saturday morning, Apr. 29, 2023.

The Alliance filed a lawsuit to stop a Forest Service plan to bulldoze, log, and burn up to 147,000 acres (230 square miles!) of Inventoried Roadless Areas in the Ashley National Forest in ...