Some good northern California environmental news. A Bush judicial appointee actually ruled against the administration and invalidated a timber sale that would have slashed into "one of the two largest, unfragmented groves of old-growth forest in the Tahoe National Forest." The area, Duncan Canyon in Tahoe, would be protected under a bill introduced last year by Senator Boxer (the California Wild Heritage Act, S.1555), but the bill - surprise, surprise - doesn't appear to be moving.