SEATTLE AUDUBON SOC. v. LYONS

Nos. C92-479WD, C94-758WD, C94-803WD and C94-820WD.

871 F.Supp. 1291 (1994)

SEATTLE AUDUBON SOCIETY, et al., Plaintiffs, v. James LYONS, in his official capacity as Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, et al., Defendants, and Washington Contract Loggers Association, et al., Defendant-Intervenors. SAVE THE WEST, Plaintiff, v. James LYONS, et al., Defendants. NATIVE FOREST COUNCIL, Plaintiff, v. Bruce BABBITT, et al., Defendants. The SIERRA CLUB, Plaintiff, v. Michael ESPY, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, W.D. Washington, at Seattle.

December 21, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Todd D. True, Victor M. Sher, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, Seattle, WA, Peggy Hennessy, Portland, OR, for Seattle Audubon Soc.

Todd D. True, Victor M. Sher, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, Seattle, WA, for Washington Environmental Council, Pilchuck Audubon Soc., Nat. Audubon Soc., Portland Audubon Soc., The Wilderness Soc., Headwaters, Klamath Forest Alliance, Northcoast Environmental Center.

Todd D. True, Victor M. Sher, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, Seattle, WA, Michael D. Axline, Western Environmental Law Center, Eugene, OR, for Lane County Audubon Soc.

Todd D. True, Victor M. Sher, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, Seattle, WA, Gary K. Kahn, Reeves, Kahn & Eder, Portland, OR, Peggy Hennessy, Portland, OR, for Forest Conservation Council.

Gary K. Kahn, Reeves, Kahn & Eder, Portland, OR, Peggy Hennessy, Portland, OR, for Save the West.

John S. Karpinski, Vancouver, WA, Stephen M. Truitt, Washington, DC, for Native Forest Council.

Gregory Thomas Costello, Riddell, Williams, Bullitt & Walkinshaw, Seattle, WA, for The Sierra Club.

Payton Smith, Davis Wright Tremaine, Seattle, WA, for Cal. Forestry Ass'n.

Christopher Lee Pickrell, U.S. Attys. Office, Seattle, WA, Beverly Sherman Nash, Stephen J. Odell, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Div., Washington, DC, for James R. Moseley, U.S. Forest Service.

Christopher Lee Pickrell, U.S. Attys. Office, Seattle, WA, Wells D. Burgess, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Environment and Natural Resources Div., Washington, DC, for Michael Espy.

Mark C. Rutzick, Law Offices of Mark C. Rutzick, Portland, OR, for Wash. Contract Loggers Ass'n, Burgess Logging Co. Inc., Lone Rock Timber Co. Inc., Jackie Bryan Cox, Freres Lumber Co. Inc., Norman V. Persons, A. Troy Reinhart, Gregory A. Miller.

John James Leary, Jr., James R. Hennessey, Smith & Leary, Seattle, WA, Mark C. Rutzick, Law Offices of Mark C. Rutzick, Portland, OR, for Northwest Forest Resource Council.


ORDER ON MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT RE 1994 FOREST PLAN

DWYER, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

The legality of a forest management plan adopted by the Secretaries of Agriculture and Interior must be decided in these consolidated cases. Among the federal lands in Washington, Oregon, and Northern California are about twenty-four million acres that are within the geographic range of the northern spotted...

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