Soda Mountain Wilderness Council v. United States Bureau of Land Management

ORDER

PANNER, District Judge.

Plaintiffs claim that the U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Federal Land and Policy Management Act (FLPMA) by approving the Sampson Grove Forest Management Project, a timber sale that would allow commercial logging on 500 acres of BLM land near Ashland, Oregon.

The parties filed cross-motions for summary judgment. Magistrate Judge Mark D. Clarke has issued a Report and Recommendation (R & R), recommending that defendant’s motion be granted except as to plaintiffs’ claim that defendant’s Environmental…