United States Tenth Circuit

Judgment for agency defendant on plaintiffs-conservation groups' action under the Administrative Procedure Act is affirmed in a challenge to a regulation promulgated by defendant allowing salvage of dead and/or dying trees on certain land without preparation of an environmental impact statement or an environmental assessment under the National Environmental Policy Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 01/19/2006
• Published 01/19/2006

Judges

• KELLY, Circuit Judge., Before KELLY, PORFILIO, and TYMKOVICH, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Matthew G. Kenna, Western Environmental Law Center, Durango, CO, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Barclay T. Samford (and Kelly A. Johnson, Acting Assistant Attorney General, on the brief), United States Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Denver, CO, for Defendant-Appellee., Scott W. Horngren, Haglund, Kelley, Horngren, Jones and Wilder, L.L.P., Portland, OR, for Defendant-Intervenor-Appellee.