NORTHWEST ECOSYSTEM ALLIANCE v. FOREST PRACTICES BOARD

No. 70874-6.

66 P.3d 614 (2003)

149 Wash.2d 67

NORTHWEST ECOSYSTEM ALLIANCE, The Mountaineers, Alpine Lakes Protection Society, Pilchuck Audubon Society, Whidbey Environmental Action Network, and Kettle Range Conservation Group, Respondents, v. WASHINGTON FOREST PRACTICES BOARD, Washington Department of Ecology, and Washington Department of Natural Resources, Petitioners, and Washington Forest Protection Association, Intervenor.

Supreme Court of Washington, En Banc.

Decided April 10, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christine Gregoire, Attorney General, Patricia O'Brien, Kathryn Gerla, Assts., Olympia, Graham & Dunn, Elaine Spencer, Seattle, for Respondents.

Washington Forest Law Center, Peter Goldman, Earthjustice Legal Defense, Todd True, Seattle, for Petitioners.


ALEXANDER, C.J.

Three agencies of the State of Washington obtained review of a decision by the Court of Appeals, Division Two, in which that court reversed the superior court's dismissal of a claim by six conservation organizations that the agencies failed to promulgate rules that adequately protected certain natural resources as required by statute. The Court of Appeals also reversed the superior court's dismissal of the conservation organizations' challenge to the...

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