Legal Opinion
Lands Council v. Martin
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided June 25, 2008No. 07-35804PublishedCited by 25 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GRABER, Circuit Judge:
A forest fire burned thousands of acres of national forest in southeastern Washington, the United States Forest Service initiated a salvage logging operation, and we are called upon to determine whether the Forest Service took the requisite “hard look” under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (“NEPA”), 42 U.S.C. §§ 4321-4370, and whether it complied with the National Forest Management Act of 1976 (“NFMA”), 16 U.S.C. §§ 1600-1614.
Plaintiffs The Lands Council, Oregon Wild, Hells Canyon Preservation Council, and Sierra Club, which are environmental organizations,…
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3Cited by25 opinions
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