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OUACHITA WATCH LEAGUE v. JACOBS

Nos. 05-14461, 05-14462.

463 F.3d 1163 (2006)

OUACHITA WATCH LEAGUE, Jerry Williams, Forest Conservation Council, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Robert JACOBS, in his official capacity as Regional Forester of the Southern Region of the U.S. Forest Service, Dale Bosworth, in his official capacity as Chief of the U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Forest Service, an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Ann M. Veneman, in her official capacity as Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Defendants-Appellees. The Chattooga Conservancy, Biodiversity Legal Foundation, Florida Biodiversity Project, Forest Conservation Council, Georgia Forestwatch, Ouachita Watch League, Sierra Club, Southern Appalachian Biodiversity Project, Wild Alabama, Wild South, Wilderness Society, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Robert Jacobs, as Regional Forester of the Southern Region of the U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Forest Service, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

September 5, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eric E. Huber, Sierra Club, Boulder, CO, Jonathan Lee Schwartz, Jon L. Schwartz, P.C., Atlanta, GA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Lisa E. Jones, Michael T. Gray, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Appellate Sect./Environ. & Nat. Res., Washington, DC, Robert David Powell, Atlanta, GA, for Defendants-Appellees.

Before ANDERSON, BARKETT and CUDAHY, Circuit Judges.

CUDAHY, Circuit Judge:

The basic substantive issue in this consolidated appeal is whether a coalition of environmental groups (collectively, Ouachita) is correct that the U.S. Forest Service's (Forest Service's) changes to certain forest plans1 in the Southern Region2 of the United States failed to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the National Forest Management Act (NFMA). The district...

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