Legal Opinion
Craig Rhodes, Charlene Brown, Mark Donham v. James Johnson, District Ranger, Vienna District, Shawnee National Forest
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided August 27, 1998No. 97-3687PublishedCited by 38 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MANION, Circuit Judge.
The defendant is the U.S. Forest Service’s District Ranger for the Vienna District of the Shawnee National Forest in southern Illinois. The plaintiffs are five neighbors of the Burke Branch Research Natural Area — part of the Shawnee National Forest — who use Burke Branch for such activities as hiking and nature photography. They seek declaratory and injunctive relief against the defendant, challenging his authority to burn one area of Burke Branch and remove shrubs from another without conducting an “environmental assessment,” which the plaintiffs argue is required by…
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