Released January 27, 2012
SAN FRANCISCO - The National Park Service did not properly study how horses and mules affect California's Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, a federal judge ruled.
The environmental group High Sierra Hikers Association challenged the agency's management plan for the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks in a 2009 federal lawsuit, saying the plan did not make detailed findings about the environmental impacts of stock animals.
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