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NORTHERN ALASKA ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER v. KEMPTHORNE

No. 05-35085.

457 F.3d 969 (2006)

NORTHERN ALASKA ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER; National Audubon Society; The Wilderness Society; Natural Resources Defense Council; Sierra Club; Alaska Wilderness League; Center for Biological Diversity, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Dirk KEMPTHORNE; Henry Bisson; United States Bureau of Land Management; Fish and Wildlife Service; United States Department of the Interior, Defendants-Appellees, Arctic Slope Regional Corporation; Conocophillips Alaska, Inc.; Anadarko Petroleum Corporation; State of Alaska, Defendants-Intervenors-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed July 26, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deirdre McDonnell, Earthjustice, Juneau, AK, for the plaintiffs-appellants.

John A. Bryson, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the defendant-appellees.

Jeffrey W. Leppo, Seattle, Washington, for the defendants-intervenors-appellees.

Before MARY M. SCHROEDER, Chief Judge, ARTHUR L. ALARCÓN and ANDREW J. KLEINFELD, Circuit Judges.

SCHROEDER, Chief Judge.

Since the administration of President Warren G. Harding, the United States has looked to the petroleum and natural gas resources underlying the wilderness of Northern Alaska, but development has come slowly. The frigid region is far reaching and so is the range of wildlife that inhabits it.

The government now proposes to lease vast reaches of the northernmost part of the state, known as the...

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