OREGON NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL v. LOWE

Civ. No. 92-1121-AS.

836 F.Supp. 727 (1993)

OREGON NATURAL RESOURCES COUNCIL; Forest Conservation Council; Concerned Friends of the Winema; National Wildlife Federation; Portland Audubon Society; The Wilderness Society; and Natural Resources Defense Council, Plaintiffs, v. John LOWE, Regional Forester, U.S. Forest Service, Bob Castaneda, Forest Supervisor Winema National Forest; United States Forest Service; and United States Department of Agriculture, Defendants, Thomas Lumber Company, an Oregon corporation; Modoc Lumber Company; an Oregon corporation; Columbia Plywood Inc., an Oregon corporation; Northwest Forestry Association, an Oregon nonprofit corporation; and Northwest Forest Resource Council, an Oregon non-profit corporation, and Kenneth W. Dunn, Defendant-Intervenors.

United States District Court, D. Oregon.

September 24, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David B. Edelson, Nathaniel S.W. Lawrence, Natural Resources Defense Council, San Francisco, CA, Gary K. Kahn, Reeves, Kahn & Eder, Portland, OR, for plaintiffs.

Jack C. Wong, U.S. Atty., D. Oregon Thomas C. Lee, Asst. U.S. Atty., Larry A. Brown, Sp. Asst. U.S. Atty., Val J. McLam Black, Sp. Asst. U.S. Atty., Portland, OR, for defendants.

Michael E. Haglund, Scott W. Horngren, Haglund & Kirtley, Portland, OR, for defendants-intervenors.


OPINION

ASHMANSKAS, United States Magistrate Judge:

Plaintiffs, defendants and defendant-intervenors have each moved for summary judgment in plaintiffs' lawsuit challenging the Forest Service's management of old growth forests on the Winema National Forest, located on the eastside of the Cascade Mountains in south-central Oregon. For the following reasons, defendants' summary judgment motion is granted and this case is dismissed.

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