ALLIANCE FOR THE WILD ROCKIES v. US FOREST SERVICE

No. 16-35829.

899 F.3d 970 (2018)

ALLIANCE FOR THE WILD ROCKIES; Idaho Sporting Congress; Native Ecosystems Council, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES FOREST SERVICE; Thomas Tidwell, Chief of the Forest Service; Keith Lannom, Forest Supervisor for Payette National Forest; Nora Rasure, Regional Forester for Region 4 for the U.S. Forest Service, Defendants-Appellees, and Adams County, a political subdivision of the State of Idaho; Payette Forest Coalition, an unincorporated Idaho association, Intervenor-Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed August 13, 2018.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Claudia M. Newman (argued) and Jacob Brooks , Bricklin & Newman LLP, Seattle, Washington, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Allen M. Brabender (argued), Sean C. Duffy , and Bridget Kennedy McNeil , Attorneys; Jeffrey H. Wood , Acting Assistant Attorney General; Environment and Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Kenneth D. Paur , Office of the General Counsel, Department of Agriculture, Golden, Colorado; for Defendants-Appellees.

Lawson E. Fite (argued), American Forest Resource Council, Portland, Oregon, for Intervenor-Defendants-Appellees.

Before: Milan D. Smith, Jr. and Mary H. Murguia, Circuit Judges, and Eduardo C. Robreno, District Judge.


OPINION

This case requires us to determine whether the Forest Service's management direction for a particular section of Idaho's Payette National Forest is consistent with the management direction that governs the forest as a whole. In September 2014, the United States...

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