ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION v. U.S. FOREST SERVICE

No. 04-15931.

451 F.3d 1005 (2006)

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION INFORMATION CENTER, a California nonprofit corporation; Klamath Forest Alliance, a California nonprofit corporation; Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center, an Oregon nonprofit corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES FOREST SERVICE, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed June 23, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marianne Dugan (argued), Facaros & Dugan, Eugene, OR, for the appellants.

Lisa Jones (argued) and M. Alice Thurston, United States Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Washington, D.C., for the appellee.

Andrew T. Lloyd, Pacific Legal Foundation, Sacramento, CA, for Amici Curiae Rural Resources Alliance, Klamath Alliance for Resources and Environment, and Pacific Legal Foundation.

Before: J. CLIFFORD WALLACE, HAWKINS, and SIDNEY R. THOMAS, Circuit Judges.


MICHAEL DALY HAWKINS, Circuit Judge.

The Environmental Protection Information Center ("EPIC") appeals from the district court's summary judgment in favor of the United States Forest Service ("USFS"). EPIC challenges USFS's failure to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement ("EIS") in connection with the proposed Knob Timber Sale in the Klamath National Forest and further argues that the Environmental Assessment ("EA") USFS did prepare was inadequate. EPIC also contends...

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