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FRIENDS OF BOUNDARY WATERS WILDERNESS v. ROBERTSON

No. 91-3032.

978 F.2d 1484 (1992)

FRIENDS OF THE BOUNDARY WATERS WILDERNESS; Sierra Club; The Wilderness Society; Defenders of Wildlife; Wilderness Watch; Wilderness Inquiry; Minnesota Public Interest Research Group; Izaak Walton League of America, Inc., Appellants, v. F. Dale ROBERTSON, Chief of the United States Forest Service; Edward Madigan, Secretary of Agriculture, Appellees, City of Ely, a Minnesota corporation; Conservationist With Common Sense, Inc., a Minnesota not-for-profit corporation; F.B. Hubachek, Jr.; Wilderness Outfitters, Inc., Intervenors-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Decided November 6, 1992.

Rehearing and Rehearing Denied January 26, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Brian B. O'Neill, Minneapolis, Minn., argued (Richard Duncan and Sandi Zellmar, on the brief), for appellants.

Peter A. Appell, Dept. of Justice, Washington D.C., argued (Robert Klarquist, Dept. of Justice, Washington D.C., Robert Small, Asst. U.S. Atty., Minneapolis, Minn., on the brief), for appellees.

Before McMILLIAN, JOHN R. GIBSON, and MAGILL, Circuit Judges.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied January 26, 1993.

JOHN R. GIBSON, Circuit Judge.

Whether there should be motorized portages in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is the issue before us in this case. The district court refused to enjoin the motorized portages, and the Friends of Boundary Waters Wilderness and seven other groups1 appeal. The central issue in the appeal boils down to the interpretation of the word "feasible...

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