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A friend has sent you a link to an article found on FlatheadBeacon.com. To read the full text of this article online, click here: /articles/article/serial_litigators_still_at_work16601/ ARTICLE EXCERPT: There is within the United States government an entity called the Government Accountability Office (GAO) with the charge of examining, upon request of Congress, various functions within federal agencies. A request was made by U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., and Rep. Nick Rahall, D-W.V., asking the GAO to review appeals and litigation filed against U.S. Forest Service projects for fiscal years 2006 to 2008. Stated in the report, which can be found on the GAO Web site, nationwide in the nine regions of the Forest Service covering 108 national forests 18 percent of proposed projects were appealed while 2 percent continued on to litigation. If those numbers applied to Region 1, where Montana’s national forests are located, the subject would probably be moot. The reality is that nationwide numbers do not apply to Region 1, and, in fact, the numbers here greatly skew the totals.