Potlatch Corp. v. United States

ON REHEARING

SCHROEDER, Justice.

This is an appeal from a Snake River Basin Adjudication (SRBA) district court decision granting the United States federal reserved water rights to all unappropriated flows in the Frank Church River of No Return, Gospel-Hump, and Selway-Bitterroot Wilderness Areas, and the Hells Canyon National Recreation Area (HCNRA).

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BACKGROUND AND PRIOR PROCEEDINGS

The United States Congress passed the Wilderness Act, Pub.L. No. 88-577, 78 Stat. 890 (codified at 16 U.S.C. §§ 1131-1136), in 1964, establishing the National Wilderness Preservation System to be composed of…