The conservation group Sequoia Forestkeeper has sued to stop the U.S. Forest Service from logging 639 trees in the Giant Sequoia National Monument in the southern Sierra Nevada in Central California. The logging has been proposed by government foresters for road maintenance, which is allowed on protected public lands in certain instances. But environmentalists argue that the Hume Roadside Logging Project does not meet those qualifications and would result in the cutting down and selling of old-growth trees.