SIERRA CLUB v. BLOCK

No. L-85-69-CA.

614 F.Supp. 134 (1985)

SIERRA CLUB, a non-profit corporation; the Wilderness Society, a non-profit corporation, Texas Committee on Natural Resources, a non-profit trust v. John R. BLOCK, in his official capacity as Secretary of Agriculture, et al.

United States District Court, E.D. Texas, Lufkin Division.

June 4, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry Daves, Daves & Hahn, Tyler, Tex., Douglas L. Honnold, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, Inc., Denver, Colo., for plaintiffs.

Robert Wortham, U.S. Atty., Ruth L. Harris, Asst. U.S. Atty., Tyler, Tex., for defendants.


ORDER

STEGER, District Judge.

I. BACKGROUND

On May 24, 1985, the Court heard the plaintiff's Motion for a Preliminary Injunction together with the government's responses to the plaintiff's Motion. The focus of this dispute concerns the effectiveness of cutting pine trees to control the spread of Southern Pine beetles in Texas Wilderness Areas.1 Plaintiffs contend that the Forest Service's present control techniques...

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