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SIERRA CLUB v. LYNG

Civ. A. No. 85-2226.

663 F.Supp. 556 (1987)

SIERRA CLUB and The Wilderness Society, Plaintiffs, v. Richard E. LYNG, et al., Defendants.

United States District Court, District of Columbia.

June 16, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Douglas L. Honnold, Denver, Colo., Eric P. Jorgensen, Washington, D.C., for plaintiffs.

Charles W. Brooks, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendants.

Fred A. Slimp, III, Robin L. Rivett, Sacramento, Cal., Robert A. Kirshner, Washington, D.C., for Louisiana Forestry Assn. (amicus).

MEMORANDUM

GESELL, District Judge.

By their complaint filed July 12, 1985, Sierra Club and The Wilderness Society challenged the legality of a program initiated by the United States Forest Service under the direction of the Secretary of Agriculture to control infestations of the Southern Pine Beetle in federally designated Wilderness Areas located in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi.1 They claimed that the program was being...

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