Sierra Club v. Lyng

MEMORANDUM

GESELL, District Judge.

By a complaint filed July 12, 1985, Sierra Club and the Wilderness Society have challenged the legality of a program initiated by the United States Forest Service under direction of the Secretary of Agriculture to control infestations of the Southern Pine Beetle in federally designated Wilderness Areas located in Arkansas, Louisiana and Mississippi. They claimed that the program was being conducted without first developing an environmental impact statement (“EIS”), in violation of the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”), 42 U.S.C. §§ 4321-4347 (1982);…