MINNESOTA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH v. BUTZ

Nos. 73-1242, 73-1280, 73-1281, 73-1282 and 73-1753.

498 F.2d 1314 (1974)

MINNESOTA PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP, Appellee, v. Earl V. BUTZ, Individually, and as Secretary of Agriculture, et al., Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided June 10, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Curtis L. Roy, and Joe A. Walters, Minneapolis, Minn., for appellants.

Gerald L. Seck, Minneapolis, Minn., for appellee.

Before MEHAFFY, Chief Judge, and GIBSON, LAY, HEANEY, BRIGHT, ROSS, STEPHENSON, and WEBSTER, Circuit Judges,


GIBSON, Circuit Judge.

The plaintiff, Minnesota Public Interest Research Group (MPIRG), filed a complaint asking for declaratory and injunctive relief against further logging in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA). It also requested application of the Wilderness Preservation System Act of 1964,1 to the management policies of, and to the existing contracts for timber cutting executed by, the United States Forest Service in the BWCA.<...

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