BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ALLIANCE v. JIRON

No. 13-1352.

762 F.3d 1036 (2014)

BIODIVERSITY CONSERVATION ALLIANCE, f/k/a Biodiversity Associates; Brian Brademeyer, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Daniel J. JIRON, Regional Forester for the Rocky Mountain Region of the United States Forest Service; Tom Tidwell, Chief of the United States Forest Service; Craig Bobizen, Supervisor for the Black Hills National Forest, Defendants-Appellees, Lucas Lentsch, Secretary of the South Dakota Department of Agriculture; Black Hills Forest Resource Association; Black Hills Multiple Use Coalition; Lawrence County; Meade County; Pennington County, Intervenors Defendants-Appellees, Biodiversity Conservation Alliance; Western Watersheds Project; Native Ecosystems Council; Prairie Hills Audubon Society, Petitioners-Appellants, v. United States Forest Service, Respondent-Appellee, and State of Wyoming; State of South Dakota; Black Hills Forest Resource Association, Intervenors Respondents-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

August 5, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John Persell , Biodiversity Conservation Alliance, Laramie, WY, appearing for Appellants.

Robert H. Oakley , Attorney ( Robert G. Dreher , Acting Assistant Attorney General, Andrew C. Mergen , Attorney, and Alison D. Garner , Attorney, with him on the brief), United States Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Washington, D.C., appearing for Defendants-Appellees and Respondent-Appellee.

Michael J. McGrady , Senior Assistant Attorney General, Wyoming Attorney General's Office, Cheyenne, WY ( James C. Kaste , Senior Assistant Attorney General, Wyoming Attorney General's Office, Cheyenne, WY; Diane P. Best , South Dakota Attorney General's Office, Sioux Falls, SD; Bruce L. Outka , Lawrence County State Attorney, Deadwood, SD; and Kent H. Holsinger and Alyson Meyer Gould , Holsinger Law, Denver, CO, with him on the brief), appearing for Intervenors Defendants-Appellees and Intervenors Respondents-Appellees.

Before TYMKOVICH, McKAY, and MATHESON, Circuit Judges.


MATHESON, Circuit Judge.

                                     TABLE OF CONTENTS

  I.  BACKGROUND ................................................................... 1049

      A.  Relevant Statutes and Regulations ........................................ 1049
          1.  National Forest Management Act ...................................... 1049
              a.  The 1982 Rule ......

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