Wyoming ex rel. Sullivan v. Lujan

ALDISERT, Circuit Judge.

The State of Wyoming appeals the district court’s determination that it lacked standing to challenge the Secretary of the Interior’s completed exchange of federally owned coal in the Ash Creek and Youngs Creek federal coal tracts in Sheridan County, Wyoming, for the JY Ranch conservation easement in the Grand Teton National Park.

This court is no stranger to litigation involving the Ash Creek tract. In Ash Creek Mining Co. v. Lujan, 934 F.2d 240, 243-44 (10th Cir.1991) (Ash Creek I), Ash Creek Mining Company challenged the Secretary’s decision to set aside the Ash Creek…