Legal Opinion
League of Wilderness Defenders-Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project v. United States Forest Service
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided July 30, 2012No. 11-35451PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
W. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge:
This case involves an Experimental Forest Thinning, Fuels Reduction, and Research Project (“the Project”) in the Deschutes National Forest in the eastern Cascades of central Oregon. The Project allows logging and controlled burning on roughly 2,500 acres of the Pringle Falls Experimental Forest. The purpose of the Project is two-fold: to reduce the risk of wildfire and beetle infestation, and to conduct research on ponderosa pine forest management.
The League of Wilderness Defenders-Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project (“the League”) filed suit against the U.S.…
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