Legal Opinion
Biodiversity Conservation Alliance v. United States Forest Service
Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit
Decided September 3, 2014No. 12-8071PublishedCited by 8 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judge.
Biodiversity Conservation Alliance challenges a United States Forest Service decision modifying trail use in the two-million-acre Medicine Bow National Forest in southern Wyoming. In particular, the Forest Service formally closed several hundred miles of unauthorized motorized trails, but allowed motorcycle use on an approximately five-mile trail in the Middle Fork Inventoried Roadless Area (Middle Fork IRA) and several connecting trails. The Alliance (BCA) argues the Forest Ser vice did not properly consider the impacts on wetlands and non-motorized recreation in…
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