PIT RIVER TRIBE v. BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT

No. CIV-S-02-1314 DFL/JFM.

306 F.Supp.2d 929 (2004)

PIT RIVER TRIBE; Native Coalition for Medicine Lake Highlands; and Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center, Plaintiffs, v. BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT; United States Department of the Interior; U.S. Forest Service; Advisory Council on Historic Preservation; and Calpine Corporation, Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. California.

February 13, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deborah Ann Sivas, Esq., Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund, Owen House, Stanford, CA, for Plaintiffs.

Edmund F. Brennan, Assistant U.S. Attorney, Sacramento, CA, for Defendant U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management.

Jeffery Donald Harris, Esq., Ellison, Schneider and Harris, Esq., Sacramento, CA, Richard Oehler, Esq., Perkins Coie, LLP, Seattle, WA, Robert A. Maynard, Esq., Perkins Coie, LLP, Boise, ID, for Defendant Advisory Council on Historic Preservation and Calpine Corp.


MEMORANDUM OF OPINION AND ORDER

LEVI, Chief Judge.

The Pit River Tribe, joined by two other groups, challenges the decision-making process followed by the Bureau of Land Management ("BLM") and the United States Forest Service in connection with a geothermal lease to Calpine Corporation on BLM lands near Medicine Lake, California. Calpine proposes to build a geothermal power plant on the lease lands, at a location known as Fourmile Hill. Plaintiffs...

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