NATURAL RESOURCES v. U.S. FOREST SERVICE

No. 04-35868.

421 F.3d 797 (2005)

NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL; Southeast Alaska Conservation Council; Sierra Club; National Audubon Society; The Wilderness Society; Center for Biological Diversity, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES FOREST SERVICE; U.S. Department of Agriculture; Mark Rey; Dennis E. Bschor; Forrest Cole, Defendants-Appellees, State of Alaska; Alaska Forest Association, Defendants-Intervenors-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed August 5, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas S. Waldo and Eric P. Jorgensen, Earthjustice, Juneau, AK, and Nathaniel S.W. Lawrence, Natural Resources Defense Council, Olympia, WA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.

Thomas L. Sansonetti, Assistant Attorney General, Andrew C. Mergen, Bruce M. Landon, David C. Shilton, and Elizabeth Ann Peterson, Environment & Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the defendants-appellees.

Steve Silver and Ruth Hamilton Heese, Robertson, Monagle & Eastaugh, Juneau, Alaska, and Gregg Renkes, Attorney General for State of Alaska, and Zachary Falcon, Assistant Attorney General for State of Alaska, for the defendants-intervenors.

Before: B. FLETCHER, McKEOWN, and GOULD, Circuit Judges.


GOULD, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs-Appellants Natural Resources Defense Council, Southeast Alaska Conservation Council, Sierra Club, National Audubon Society, The Wilderness Society, and Center for Biological Diversity (collectively "NRDC") appeal the district court's final judgment in favor of Defendants-Appellees United States Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture, and certain government employees acting in their official capacity,

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