SIERRA CLUB v. MARITA

Civ. A. No. 90-C-0989.

845 F.Supp. 1317 (1994)

SIERRA CLUB; Wisconsin Forest Conservation Task Force; and Wisconsin Audubon Council, Inc., Plaintiffs, v. Floyd J. MARITA, as Regional Forester of the Eastern Region of the Forest Services, United States Department of Agriculture; F. Dale Robertson as Chief of the Forest Services; and Jack A. Blackwell as Forest Supervisor of the Chequamegon National Forest, Defendants.

United States District Court, E.D. Wisconsin.

March 7, 1994.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Walter Kuhlmann, Boardman, Suhr, Curry & Field, Madison, WI, for plaintiffs.

Wells D. Burgess and Louise Milkman, U.S. Dept. of Justice — Environment & Natural Resources Div. — Gen. Litigation Section, Washington, DC, and Mel S. Johnson, Asst. U.S. Atty., Milwaukee, WI, for defendants.


DECISION AND ORDER

REYNOLDS, District Judge.

In this action, the plaintiffs, three conservation groups, claim that the United States Forest Service ("the Service") violated various environmental statutes and regulations by failing to consider basic principles of ecology in developing a management plan for the Chequamegon National Forest. Both sides have filed motions for summary judgment. For reasons set forth below, plaintiffs' motion will be denied and...

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