CASCADIA WILDLANDS v. BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS

No. 14-35553.

801 F.3d 1105 (2015)

CASCADIA WILDLANDS, an Oregon non-profit corporation; Oregon Wild, an Oregon non-profit corporation; Umpqua Watersheds, Inc., an Oregon non-profit corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS, an agency of the United States Department of the Interior, Defendant-Appellee, and Coquille Indian Tribe, a federally recognized Indian tribe, Intervenor-Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed September 11, 2015.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nicholas S. Cady (argued), Cascadia Wildlands, Eugene OR; Sean T. Malone ; Daniel R. Kruse , Eugene, OR, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Sam Hirsch , Acting Assistant Attorney General, Stuart Gillespie , Brian C. Toth and Ellen J. Durkee (argued), Environmental & Natural Resources Division, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Mary Anne Kenworthy , Office of the Regional Solicitor, Department of the Interior, Portland, OR, for Defendant-Appellee.

Edmund C. Goodman (argued), Hobbs, Straus, Dean & Walker, LLP, Portland, OR; Brett V. Kenney , North Bend, OR, for Intervenor-Defendant-Appellee.

Before: RAYMOND C. FISHER, CARLOS T. BEA and MARY H. MURGUIA, Circuit Judges.


OPINION

Cascadia Wildlands, Oregon Wild and Umpqua Watersheds (collectively, Cascadia) challenge the Bureau of Indian Affairs' (BIA) approval of the Middle Forks Kokwel timber sale (the Kokwel Project), a plan by the Coquille Indian Tribe (the Tribe) to harvest 268 acres of timber in the Coquille Forest in southwest...

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