WEST VIRGINIA DIV. OF IZAAK WALTON LEAGUE, INC. v. BUTZ

Civ. A. No. C-73-68-E.

367 F.Supp. 422 (1973)

WEST VIRGINIA DIVISION OF the IZAAK WALTON LEAGUE OF AMERICA, INC., et al,. Plaintiffs, v. Earl L. BUTZ, Secretary of Agriculture of the United States, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, N. D. West Virginia.

November 6, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James C. West, Jr., Jones, Williams, West & Jones, Clarksburg, W. Va., Bruce J. Terris, Helen C. Needham, Washington, D. C., James W. Moorman, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, San Francisco, Cal., Toby Sherwood, Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., Palo Alto, Cal., for plaintiffs.

Mark Wine, 2137 Land and Natural Resources Division, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D. C., James F. Companion, U. S. Atty., Wheeling, W. Va., for defendants.


MAXWELL, Chief Judge.

Three proposals to sell timber from the Monongahela National Forest have activated judicial review of the management and harvesting policies and practices of the United States Forest Service. While the timber harvesting practices under attack in this civil action are referred to as clearcutting, and variations thereof, the issues before the Court are much broader.

Plaintiffs ground their civil action upon the provisions of the Organic...

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