FRIENDS OF COLUMBIA GORGE v. STATE FOREST

No. 31856-3-II.

118 P.3d 354 (2005)

FRIENDS OF the COLUMBIA GORGE, INC., Respondent, v. WASHINGTON STATE FOREST PRACTICES APPEALS BOARD and WASHINGTON STATE DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ROY OSTROSKI; ROY and JOAN LEIPNIK; and VIRGINIA BROWNE, Appellants.

Court of Appeals of Washington, Division 2.

August 9, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nathan J. Baker, Staff Attorney for Friends, Attorney at Law, Gary Keith Kahn, Peggy Hennessy, Reeves Kahn & Hennessy, Portland, OR, for Respondent.

Neil Lynn Wise, Attorney at Law, Bruce L. Turcott, Office of the Atty. General, Olympia, WA, Ross Alan Day, Oregonians in Action, Tigard, OR, for Appellants.


HUNT, J.

¶ 1 Roy Ostroski and the Washington State Department of Natural Resources (DNR) appeal the superior court's reversal of the Forest Practices Appeals Board's affirmance of a DNR—approved permit.1 This DNR permit would have allowed Ostroski to convert forest land within a Special Management Area of the Columbia River Gorge National Scenic Area to a new agricultural use. Ostroski and DNR argue that state forest practice...

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