Legal Opinion
Colorado Wild v. Vilsack
District Court, D. Colorado
Decided March 25, 2010No. Civil Action 09-cv-01272-JLKPublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER
KANE, District Judge.
Located in south-central Colorado, Handkerchief Mesa comprises nearly 92,-000 acres in the Rio Grande National Forest and contains three of the Rio Grande’s primary watersheds: Pass Creek, Park Creek, and Beaver Creek, as well as part of the South Fork of the Rio Grande River. From the late-nineteenth through the mid-twentieth century the area was managed to maximize the extractive value of resources, and as a result it was heavily logged. Massive clearcuts denuded significant portions of the area, resulting in detrimental impacts to the area’s…
2Cases cited18 opinions
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