INLAND EMPIRE PUBLIC LANDS v. U.S. FOREST SERVICE

No. 95-35730.

88 F.3d 754 (1996)

INLAND EMPIRE PUBLIC LANDS COUNCIL, a non-profit corporation; Montana Wilderness Association, a non-profit corporation; The Ecology Center, a non-profit corporation; American Wildlands, a non-profit corporation; Cabinet Resource Group, a non-profit corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES FOREST SERVICE, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided July 3, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deborah A. Sivas, Inland Empire Public Lands Council, Palo Alto, California, and Patti A. Goldman, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, Seattle, Washington, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Lisa E. Jones, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for defendant-appellee.

Before: WRIGHT, HALL and TROTT, Circuit Judges.


CYNTHIA HOLCOMB HALL, Circuit Judge:

The United States Forest Service proposed eight timber sales in the Upper Sunday Creek Watershed region of the Kootenai National Forest in northwest Montana. The environmental impact statement it prepared in anticipation of the sales evaluated the project's impact on a number of "sensitive species" living in that region. Plaintiffs, a number of environmental groups, challenged the sale...

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