KETTLE RANGE CONSERVATION v. U.S. FOREST SERVICE

No. 96-36100.

147 F.3d 1155 (1998)

KETTLE RANGE CONSERVATION GROUP, a non-profit corporation; Inland Empire Public Lands Council, a non-profit corporation; Northwest Ecosystem Alliance, a non-profit corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. U.S. FOREST SERVICE, an agency of the United States, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided July 6, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Todd True (argued), Yuki Ishizuka (briefed), Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, Seattle, Washington, for the plaintiffs-appellants.

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

Before: REAVLEY, BOOCHEVER and KLEINFELD, Circuit Judges.


KLEINFELD, Circuit Judge:

The issue in this case is whether the Forest Service abused its discretion regarding the scope of a supplement to an environmental impact statement.

Facts

In 1990, the Forest Service began studying the feasibility of conducting timber sales in 29,600 acres of the Colville National Forest in northeastern Washington. In 1992, after nearly two years of study and public meetings, the...

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