United States Tenth Circuit

In a petition for review of the Forest Service's determination not to undertake an environmental analysis of certain elk feed grounds, the denial of the petition is affirmed, where the Forest Service later undertook the requested analyses and thus the action was moot.

Appellate Information

• Decided 07/10/2009
• Published 07/10/2009

Judges

• MURPHY, Circuit Judge., Before BRISCOE, HOLLOWAY, and MURPHY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Tenth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Timothy J. Preso (Abigail M. Dillen with him on the briefs), Earthjustice, Bozeman, MT, for Petitioners-Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Robert H. Oakley, United States Department of Justice, Environmental & Natural Resources Division, Washington, D.C.(Ronald J. Tenpas, Assistant Attorney General;  James C. Kilbourne and Lori Caramanian, United States Department of Justice, Environmental & Natural Resources Division, Washington, D.C., with him on the brief) for Respondents-Appellees., C. Levi Martin, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Cheyenne, WY (Jay A. Jerde, Deputy Attorney General, Cheyenne, WY, and John C. McKinley of Davis & Cannon, Cheyenne, WY, with him on the briefs) for Intervenors-Respondents-Appellees.