PACIFIC RIVERS COUNCIL v. THOMAS

Nos. 93-36162, 94-35042.

30 F.3d 1050 (1994)

PACIFIC RIVERS COUNCIL; Oregon Natural Resources Council; Hells Canyon Preservation Council; The Wilderness Society; Oregon Natural Desert Association, Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross-Appellees, v. Jack Ward THOMAS, in his official capacity as Chief of the U.S. Forest Service; United States Forest Service, Defendants-Appellees-Cross-Appellants, and Northwest Forest Resource Council, et al., Defendants-Intervenors/Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided July 7, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Victor M. Sher, Todd D. True, Adam J. Berger, Kristen L. Boyles, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, for plaintiffs/cross-appellees.

Lois J. Schiffer, Acting Asst. Atty. Gen., Jack C. Wong, U.S. Atty., Thomas C. Lee, Asst. U.S. Atty., Peter R. Steenland, Jr., Albert M. Ferlo, Jr., Elinor Colborn, J. Carol Williams, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Environmental & Natural Resources Div., for appellees/cross appellants.

Mark C. Rutznick, Douglas C. Blomgren, Preston Thorgrimson Shidler Gates & Ellis, for defendants-intervenors/appellees.

Before: WRIGHT, TANG and REINHARDT, Circuit Judges.


REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:

OVERVIEW

Plaintiffs-appellants Pacific Rivers Council, et al. (PRC) appeal the district court's grant of a partial injunction. This injunction bars the United States Forest Service (Forest Service) from announcing, awarding or conducting any additional timber sales, range activities, or road building projects in the Wallowa-Whitman and Umatilla National Forests until it commences consultation procedures as required...

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