MONTANA WILDERNESS ASS'N v. FRY

No. CV 00-39-GF-DWM.

310 F.Supp.2d 1127 (2004)

MONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION a non-profit corporation, and, Curley Youpee, an enrolled member of the Fort Peck Tribes, individually, Plaintiff, v. Tom FRY, Acting Director, U.S. Bureau of Land Management; Mat Millenbach, Director, Montana-Dakotas State Office, U.S. Bureau, of Land Management; Jamie Rappaport Clark, Director, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service; U.S. Bureau of Land Management; U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service; and Macum Energy, Inc., a Montana corporation, Defendants.

United States District Court, D. Montana, Great Falls Division.

March 31, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cathy J. Lewis, Ugrin Alexander Zadick & Higgins, Great Falls, MT, for plaintiff.

George F. Darragh, Jr., Office of the U.S. Attorney, Great Falls, MT, Alan L. Joscelyn, Gough Shanahan Johnson & Waterman, Helena, MT, William P. Pendley, Michael P. Adams, D. Andrew Wight, Mountain States Legal Foundation, Lakewood, CO, Gary G. Broeder, Broeder Law Office, Billings, MT, for defendants.


ORDER

MOLLOY, Chief Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

This case arises from Defendant Bureau of Land Management's sale of three oil and gas leases to Defendant Macum Energy, Inc. on September 28, 1999, and from BLM's decision granting an unrelated pipeline right-of-way to Macum Energy on November 4, 1999. The leases and pipeline are in Blaine County, north central Montana, in an area of the Upper Missouri Breaks commonly known as the Bullwacker, named after...

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