VOYAGEURS REGION NAT. PARK ASS'N v. LUJAN

No. 91-2023.

966 F.2d 424 (1992)

VOYAGEURS REGION NATIONAL PARK ASSOCIATION; the National Parks and Conservation Association; the Wilderness Society; Sierra Club; the Humane Society of the United States; the Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness; Friends of Animals and their Environment, Appellants, v. Manual LUJAN, Jr., Secretary, Department of the Interior; James M. Ridenour, Director, National Park Service, Appellees. Citizens Council on Voyageurs National Park, Koochiching County, St. Louis County, City of International Falls, City of Island View and City of Ranier; Minnesota United Snowmobilers Association, Amici Curiae.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided June 10, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard Duncan, Minneapolis, Minn., argued (Brian O'Neill and Michael Ponto, on brief), for appellants.

Dirk D. Snel, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., argued (Barry Kenneth Saffold, Asst. U.S. Atty., St. Paul, Minn., and Robert Klarquist, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., on brief), for appellees.

Before JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge, FRIEDMAN, Senior Circuit Judge, and MAGILL, Circuit Judge.


JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.

Voyageurs Region National Park Association and a group of six other organizations1 appeal from the district court's refusal to enjoin snowmobile use on the Kabetogama Peninsula within Voyageurs National Park in Minnesota, pending study of the area for wilderness designation pursuant to the Wilderness Act, 16 U.S.C. §§ 1131-1136 (1988). Voyageurs argues that the Park Service's decision to permit...

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