League of Wilderness Defenders/Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project v. United States Forest Service

AMENDED OPINION AND ORDER

MICHAEL H. SIMON, District Judge.

The League of Wilderness Defenders/Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project (“LOWD” or “Plaintiff’) challenges the decision of the U.S. Forest Service and its Regional Forester for the Pacific Northwest Region (collectively, “Forest Service” or “Defendant”) to increase the use of herbicides in controlling invasive plant species in the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest.1 The Wallowa-Whitman National Forest comprises 2.3 million acres in the northeast corner of Oregon and the western edge of Idaho — an area larger than the states of Delaware…