Friends of the Columbia Gorge have appealed decisions by the U.S. Forest Service and the Washington Department of Natural Resources to allow Synergy Resources to conduct a logging project near Major Creek in Klickitat County.  The site is within a Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area Special Management Area.  In their appeals, Friends of the Gorge claims the activity is a commercial forest practice, which is prohibited in Special Management Area Open Space-designated lands, and that the logging operation would disturb sensitive wildlife habitat.  Friends of the Gorge have appealed the Forest Service decision in federal court and the DNR decision to the Washington Pollution Control Hearings Board.