Legal Opinion
League of Wilderness Defenders/Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project v. Forsgren
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided November 4, 2002No. 01-35729PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
D.W. NELSON, Senior Circuit Judge:
Appellees Harv Forsgren and the United States Forest Service (“Forest Service”) have underway a program of annual aerial insecticide spraying over 628,000 acres of national forest lands in Washington and Oregon. The spraying is aimed at controlling a predicted outbreak of the Douglas Fir Tussock Moth (“Moth”), which kills Douglas Fir trees.
Appellants League of Wilderness and seven other environmental groups (“Environmental Groups”) filed suit in district court challenging the spraying program. They assert that the Environmental Impact Statement (“EIS”)…
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