AMERICAN WILD HORSE PRESERVATION v. PERDUE

No. 15-5332.

865 F.3d 691 (2017)

AMERICAN WILD HORSE PRESERVATION CAMPAIGN, et al., Appellants v. Sonny PERDUE, Secretary, U.S. Department of Agriculture, et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided August 4, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Zaft argued the cause for appellants. With him on the briefs was William S. Eubanks II.   Katherine A. Meyer entered an appearance.

Mark R. Haag , Attorney, U.S. Department of Justice, argued the cause for appellees. With him on the brief were John C. Cruden , Assistant Attorney General at the time the brief was filed, Meredith L. Flax and Stuart Gillespie , Attorneys, U.S. Department of Justice, and Steven F. Hirsch , Attorney-Advisor, U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Caroline Lobdell was on the brief for defendants-intervenors-appellees.

Before: Tatel, Millett, and Wilkins, Circuit Judges.


Since 1975, the United States Forest Service has protected and managed wild horses in the Devil's Garden section of the Modoc National Forest in Northern California. That wild horse territory originally consisted of two separate tracts of land of roughly 236,000 acres. But at some point in the 1980s, a Forest Service map...

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