Legal Opinion
Sierra Club v. Davies
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided February 5, 1992No. Nos. 90-2639, 90-2696PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MAGILL, Circuit Judge.. This appeal concerns whether preliminary testing in a state park aimed at determining the feasibility of commercial diamond mining constitutes a conversion under the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965. The district court concluded that the initial testing was inextricably intertwined with mining and therefore constituted a nonrecreational use under the Act. Since we believe preliminary testing is distinct from the issue of whether commercial mining would constitute a conversion, we reverse in part. We affirm that portion of the district court decision…
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