Island Range Chapter of the Montana Wilderness v. United States Forest Service

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER

HATFIELD, District Judge.

The above-entitled action has its genesis in the United States Forest Service’s decision to proceed with a timber sale in the Smokey-Corridor area of the Little Belt Mountains in the Lewis and Clark National Forest. Plaintiffs, Island Range Chapter of the Montana Wilderness Association, American Wildlands, Russell County Sportsmen, John Ressler and Stuart Lew-in, instituted the above-entitled action for declaratory and injunctive relief, alleging the Forest Service’s decision to proceed with the sale is violative of the National Forest Management…