Legal Opinion
Pacific Rivers Council v. United States Forest Service
District Court, E.D. California
Decided April 29, 2013No. 2:05-cv-00953-MCE-ACPublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
memorandum: and order
MORRISON C. ENGLAND, JR., Chief Judge.
Presently before this Court is the question of the appropriate remedy for a legal deficiency in the Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (“SEIS”) the Forest Service prepared pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”) for the 2004 Sierra Nevada Forest Plan Amendment (also referred to as the “2004 Framework” or the “SNFPA”).
On appeal of this Court’s merits ruling, the Ninth Circuit concluded that the Forest Service failed to take a hard look at the environmental consequences of the 2004 Framework on fish and…
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