WYOMING TIMBER INDUSTRY ASS'N v. U.S. FOREST SERV.

No. 99-CV-1016-B.

80 F.Supp.2d 1245 (2000)

WYOMING TIMBER INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION, a Wyoming non-profit trade association; Frontiers of Freedom-Wyoming, a Wyoming, a Wyoming non-profit organization, Petitioners, v. UNITED STATES FOREST SERVICE; Daniel R. Glickman, in his official capacity as Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture; Michael P. Dombeck, in his official capacity as Chief Forester of the United States Forest Service; Lyle Laverty, in his official capacity as Regional Forester, Region II, United States Forest Service; Jack A. Blackwell, in his official capacity as Regional Forester, Region IV, United States Forest Service, Respondents, Wyoming Outdoor Council, Bighorn Forest Users Coalition, Sierra Club, Wilderness Society, Greater Yellow-stone Coalition, Northwest Wyoming Resource Council, Biodiversity Associates, Wyoming Wilderness Association, Wyoming Wildlife Association, American Wildlands, American Lands Alliance, Pacific Rivers Council, Oregon Natural Resources Council, U.S. Public Interest Research Group, Intervenor Respondents, and Northwest Forestry Association, Independent Forest Products Association, Intermountain Forestry Association, California Forestry Association, Amici Curiae.

United States District Court, D. Wyoming.

January 5, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John D. Ward, Sheridan, WY, for petitioners.

Carol A. Statkus, AUSA, U.S. Attorney's Office, Cheyenne, WY, John W. Watts, Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for federal defendants.

James S. Angell, Stephen D. Mashuda, Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund, Bozeman, MT, Caroline Byrd, Lander, WY, for intervenor respondents.

Scott W. Horngren, Portland, OR, John A. Coppede, Cheyenne, WY, for Amici Curiae.


ORDER

BRIMMER, District Judge.

This matter comes before the Court on Petitioners' petition for review of the United States Forest Service's final interim rule, codified as 36 C.F.R. § 212.13, requiring an eighteen month suspension of road construction decision making in certain unroaded areas within the National Forest System (the "Rule").1 After hearing oral arguments, reading the briefs, and being fully advised...

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