Seattle Audubon Society v. Lyons

ORDER ON MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT RE 1994 FOREST PLAN

DWYER, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

The legality of a forest management plan adopted by the Secretaries of Agriculture and Interior must be decided in these consol idated cases. Among the federal lands in Washington, Oregon, and Northern California are about twenty-four million acres that are within the geographic range of the northern spotted owl. The plan to manage this large area was adopted in response to orders entered in this litigation (see Seattle Audubon Soc’y v. Moseley, 798 F.Supp. 1484 (W.D.Wa.1992), aff'd sub nom., Seattle…