Legal Opinion
Sierra Club v. United States Forest Service
District Court, N.D. Georgia
Decided March 3, 2008No. Civil Action 1:03-cv-1230-ODEPublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ORDER
TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. INTRODUCTION. 1272
II. CLAIMS I AND II .1274
A. Background.1274
B. Key Interpretive Issues.1288
C. Region Eight PETS Lists as of 2002 .1290
D. Supplementation of the Administrative Record.1291
E. Standard of Review in NEPA Cases .1291
F. Resolution of Key Interpretive Issues.1292
G. Legal Discussion.1302
1. Claim I.1302
2. Claim II.1306
III. CLAIM III .1309
IV. SUMMARY.1311
V APPENDIX 1313
2002 Regional Supplement to Forest Service Manual 1313
Digest . 1313
§ 2672.43 — Procedures for Conducting Biological Evaluations 1314
Decision Tree. 1315
Definition of Terms in Decision Tree. 1316
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3Cited by2 opinions
- Sierra Club v. United States Forest ServiceDistrict Court, N.D. Georgia · 2008
- Sierra Club v. US Forest ServiceDistrict Court, N.D. Georgia · 2008