CRONIN v. U.S. DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE

No. 90-2744.

919 F.2d 439 (1990)

William CRONIN, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE, et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided November 28, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barry Levenstam, Thomas C. Buchele, Chicago, Ill., Joseph Glisson, Pomona, Ill., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Stephen B. Clark, Asst. U.S. Atty., Office of the U.S. Atty., East St. Louis, Ill., Leslie Auriemmo, Dept. of Agriculture, Milwaukee, Wis., Thomas F. Crosby, Winters, Brewster, Murphy, Crosby & Patchett, Marion, Ill., for defendants-appellees.

Before POSNER and FLAUM, Circuit Judges, and FAIRCHILD, Senior Circuit Judge.


POSNER, Circuit Judge.

Recreational frequenters of the Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois have appealed from the denial of their request for a preliminary injunction. The Forest Service authorized a sale of timber, to be harvested by the method of logging known as "group selection," from a 661-acre tract, called "Fairview," of the 260,000-acre national forest. The suit charges that the sale violates federal law, in particular the National Environmental Policy...

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