Legal Opinion
Ohio Forestry Assn., Inc. v. Sierra Club
Supreme Court of the United States
Decided May 26, 1998No. 97-16PublishedCited by 740 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Breyer
The Sierra Club challenges the lawfulness of a federal land and resource management plan adopted by the United States Forest Service for Ohio’s Wayne National Forest on the ground that the plan permits too much logging and too much elearcutting. We conclude that the controversy is not yet ripe for judicial review.
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The National Forest Management Act of 1976 (NFMA) requires the Secretary of Agriculture to “develop, maintain, and, as appropriate, revise land and resource management plans for units of the National Forest System.” 90 Stat. 2949, as renumbered and amended, 16 U. S. C. § 1604(a).…
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