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OUACHITA WATCH LEAGUE v. U.S. FOREST SERVICE

No. 16-1952.

858 F.3d 539 (2017)

OUACHITA WATCH LEAGUE; Newton County Wildlife Association; Shawn Porter; G. Thomas McKinney; David Reagan; Susan Gateley; Robert B. Leflar; Sarah May Leflar; Kimberly Ison; John Ison; Billy Lindsey; Carol Lindsey; James Mitchell; Ruth Mitchell; John Lawrence Poff, Plaintiffs Ozark Society, Plaintiff-Appellant v. UNITED STATES FOREST SERVICE; Judith L. Henry, Forest Supervisor, Ozark-St. Francis National Forests; Department of Agriculture; Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management; Department of Defense, United States Army Corps of Engineers, Little Rock District; United States Department of the Army; Bureau of Land Management; Dr. John Lyon, in his official capacity of Eastern States Director, Bureau of Land Management; Bruce Dawson, in his official capacity as Eastern States Field Manager, Bureau of Land Management, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Eighth Circuit.

Filed: May 30, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Counsel who presented argument on behalf of the appellant was Ross Allen Noland , of Little Rock, AR.

Counsel who presented argument on behalf of the appellees was Avi Kupfer , of Washington, DC. The following attorney(s) appeared on the appellee brief; Ruth Ann Storey , Jennifer Scheller Neumann , Romney S. Philpott , and Lane N. McFadden of Washington, DC.

Before SMITH and KELLY, Circuit Judges, and SIPPEL, District Judge.

The United States Forest Service ("Forest Service") developed a management plan for the Ozark-St. Francis National Forests and analyzed the plan's environmental effects in 2005. At that time, the Forest Service anticipated 10-20 new natural-gas wells within ten years. That expectation...

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