Public Lands for the People, Inc. v. United States Department of Agriculture

OPINION

McKEOWN, Circuit Judge:

The Wild West has long conjured up images of prospectors with pack mules and pickaxes foraging for gold. The oft-romanticized ways of the Wild West eventually modernized and gave way to prospecting with the aid of motor vehicles and heavy machinery. The United States Forest Service (the “Forest Service”), an arm of the Department of Agriculture, recently limited the use of motor vehicles to certain roads in the century-old El Dorado National Forest (“ENF”). Concerned about the impact of the limitation on their activities, a group of miners and prospectors…