Friends of the Wild Swan v. Department of Natural Resources & Conservation

¶ 1 The Plaintiff, Friends of the Wild Swan, brought this action in the District Court for the First Judicial District in Lewis and Clark County to challenge the sufficiency of the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) prepared by the Defendant, Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation (DNRC), for the Middle Soup Creek Project pursuant to the Montana Environmental Policy Act (MEPA) §§ 75-1-201, et seq., MCA. The District Court held that the EIS prepared by the DNRC inadequately addressed the cumulative impacts of the project and also held that the DNRC should have prepared a…