United States Tenth Circuit

The United States Forest Service's approval of a timber-harvesting project is vacated where the Forest Service did not properly select and monitor certain Management Indicator Species populations before authorizing the project. (Amended opinion)

Appellate Information

• Decided 02/27/2006
• Published 02/27/2006

Judges

• Before EBEL and HENRY, Circuit Judges, and WHITE, District Judge.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Stephen H. Novack, (Ray Vaughan, Wildlaw, Montgomery, Alabama, with him on the briefs), Wildlaw Southern Appalachian Office, Asheville, NC, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Mark K. Haag (Thomas Sansonetti, Assistant Attorney General;  and David C. Shilton and Myesha K. Braden, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., with him on the brief), Environment & Natural Resources Division, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for Defendants-Appellees.