Legal Opinion
Minnesota Public Interest Research Group v. Earl v. Butz, Individually, and as Secretary of Agriculture
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided June 10, 1974No. 73-1242, 73-1280, 73-1281, 73-1282 and 73-1753PublishedCited by 140 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GIBSON, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff, Minnesota Public Interest Research Group (MPIRG), filed a complaint asking for declaratory and injunctive relief against further logging in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA). It also requested application of the Wilderness Preservation System Act of 1964,1 to the management policies of, and to the existing contracts for timber cutting executed by, the United States Forest Service in the BWCA.
The District Court, after a hearing on the merits, enjoined the defendants from logging “in those areas of the active timber sales on the BWCA which are contiguous…
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