AVOYELLES SPORTSMEN'S LEAGUE, INC. v. ALEXANDER

Civ. A. No. 78-1428.

511 F.Supp. 278 (1981)

The AVOYELLES SPORTSMEN'S LEAGUE, INC., et al. v. Clifford L. ALEXANDER et al.

United States District Court, W. D. Louisiana, Alexandria Division.

March 12, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald R. Wilson, Gaharan, Richey & Wilson, Jena, La., for all plaintiffs.

James B. Tripp, New York City, for Environmental Defense Fund.

Michael Osborne, Smith & Osborne, New Orleans, La., for Environmental Defense Fund and National Wildlife Fed.

F. Walter Conrad, Houston, Tex., for intervenors Ophelia Lake & Bayou Lafourche, and for defendants, Lambright & Prevot.

William D. Brown, Monroe, La., David B. Beers and Nancy C. Shea, Richard S. Wasserstrom, Nat'l Forest Products Assn., Washington, D. C., for amicus curiae — American Paper Institute, the National Forest Products Assn., and the Louisiana Forestry Assn.

Frances O. Allen, Shreveport, La., for all government defendants.

Charles K. Reasonover, Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, New Orleans, La., for defendant Elder Realty Co.

Louis D. Curet, D'Amico & Curet, Baton Rouge, La., for amicus curiae — Louisiana Farm Bureau Federation, Inc.

Dan E. Melichar, Gravel, Robertson & Brady, Alexandria, La., for defendant H. P. Lambright.

Edwin R. Woodman, Baton Rouge, La., for intervenor Department of Natural Resources.

Joseph E. LeBlanc, Jr., Milling, Benson, Woodward, Hillyer, Pierson & Miller, New Orleans, La., for intervenors Louisiana Landowners Assn.

Fred R. Disheroon and Nancy L. Long, Dept. of Justice, Catherine A. Winer, U. S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D. C., for all federal defendants.


OPINION

NAUMAN S. SCOTT, Chief Judge.

Plaintiffs1 brought this declaratory and injunctive action alleging that land-clearing operations being carried on by the private defendants2 have and will: alter and modify the course, condition and capacity of the navigable waters of the United States in violation of § 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899, 33 U.S.C.A. § 403; result in the discharge...

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