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NAT'L PARKS v. U.S. DEPT. OF INTERIOR

No. 14-15326, No. 15-11599.

835 F.3d 1377 (2016)

NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION, John Adornato, III, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Defendants-Appellees, Safari Club International, Florida Wildlife Federation, Intervenor-Defendants-Appellees. Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, Sierra Club, South Florida Wildlands Association, Wilderness Watch, Brian Scherf, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior, Jonathan B. Jarvis, Director, National Park Service, Daniel M. Ashe, Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.

Date Filed: August 31, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert D. Rosenbaum , Ron A. Ghatan , Arnold & Porter, LLP, Washington, DC, Marcy I. LaHart , Marcy I. LaHart, PA, Gainesville, FL, for Plaintiffs-Appellants (Case No. 14-15326).

John Emad Arbab , Mark A. Brown , Sara Porsia , U.S. Department of Justice, Appellate Section, Environment and Natural Resources Div., Douglas Scott Burdin , Anna M. Seidman , Safari Club International, Washington, DC, Kyle Scott Cohen , U.S. Attorney's Office, Fort Myers, FL, Eric Mathew Sodhi , Richman Greer, PA, Miami, FL, Thomas W. Reese , Attorney at Law, St. Petersburg, FL, for Defendants-Appellees (Case No. 14-15326).

William Stewart Eubanks, II , Meyer Glitzenstein & Eubanks LLP, Fort Collins, CO, Paula N. Dinerstein , Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, Eric Robert Glitzenstein , Meyer Glitzenstein & Eubanks LLP, Washington, DC, Matthew P. Farmer , Farmer & Fitzgerald, PA, Tampa, FL, for Plaintiff-Appellants (Case No. 15-11599).

John Emad Arbab , Mark A. Brown , Sara Porsia , U.S. Department of Justice Appellate Section, Environment and Natural Resources Div., Douglas Scott Burdin , Safari Club International, Washington, DC, Arthur Lee Bentley, III , U.S. Attorney's Office, Tampa, FL, Thomas W. Reese , Attorney at Law, St. Petersburg, FL, for Defendants-Appellees (Case No. 15-11599).

Tyler Joseph Sniff , Donald DJ Stack , Stack & Associates, PC, Atlanta, GA, Donald C. Baur , Perkins Coie, LLP, Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Coalition to Protect America's National Parks, Inc.

Paula N. Dinerstein , Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, Eric Robert Glitzenstein , Meyer Glitzenstein & Eubanks LLP, Washington, DC, William Stewart Eubanks, II , Meyer Glitzenstein & Eubanks LLP, Fort Collins, CO, Matthew P. Farmer , Farmer & Fitzgerald, PA, Tampa, FL, for Amicus Curiae Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.

Thomas Neal McAliley , Leon Cosgrove, LLC, Coral Gables, FL, for Amici Curiae Collier Enterprises, Inc., Barron Collier Company, Ltd., Collier Resources Company LLP.

Mark A. Brown , Sara Porsia , U.S. Department of Justice, Appellate Section, Environment and Natural Resources Div., Washington, DC, for Amicus Curiae Secretary, US Department of Interior.

Before WILSON and JULIE CARNES, Circuit Judges, and MOORE, District Judge.

This case involves the addition of approximately 112,400 acres of land ("Addition Lands") to the Big Cypress National Preserve in the State of Florida ("Original Preserve"). The Original Preserve was established by the Big Cypress National Preserve Act, 16 U.S.C. § 698f(a), and consists of over 574,000 acres. In 1988...

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