United States Third Circuit

Plaintiff's challenge to a site-specific project in the Allegheny National Forest, claiming that the United States Forest Service improperly selected a harvesting system primarily based upon dollar return, is dismissed where the system did not violate the Administrative Procedure Act.

Appellate Information

• Argued 05/03/2005
• Decided 09/15/2005
• Published 09/15/2005

Judges

• Before MCKEE, VAN ANTWERPEN, and WEIS, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Third Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas C. Buchele, (Argued), Pittsburgh, PA, for Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas L. Sansonetti, Assistant Attorney General, Ellen J. Durkee, Mark R. Haag, (Argued), Attorneys, Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Washington, D.C., Ronald Mulach (Of counsel), Office of the General Counsel, United States Department of Agriculture, Milwaukee, WI, for Appellees United States Forest Service, Robert T. Jacobs and Kevin Elliot., Steven P. Quarles, J. Michael Klise, (Argued), Thomas R. Lundquist, Crowell & Moring LLP, Washington, D.C., for Appellees Allegheny Forest Service, Ruffed Grouse Society and American Forest and Paper Association.