United States Eighth Circuit

Summary judgment in favor of defendant, regarding a challenge to the decision to approve harvesting timber in Mark Twain National Forest, is affirmed where defendant's decision that the project did not have a significant impact on the Indiana bat was not arbitrary or capricious and thus not a violation of National Environmental Policy Act.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/25/2004
• Published 08/25/2004

Judges

• MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, Circuit Judge., Before MORRIS SHEPPARD ARNOLD, BEAM, and MELLOY, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Matt Kenna, Kenna & Hickcox, Durango, CO, Kathleen Green Henry, Great Rivers Environmental Law Center, St. Louis, MO, for Plaintiffs/Appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Ellen J. Durkee, Susan L. Pacholski, Myesha K. Braden, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Div., Washington, DC, Michael A. Price, U.S. Attys. Office, Cape Girardeau, MO, Susan M. Henderson, Eileen Sobeck, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Wildlife and Marine Resources Section, Washington, DC, for Defendants/Appellees., Searcy W. Harrell, Jr., Harrell & Lindsey, Camden, AR, Thomas Richard Lundquist, Joseph Michael Klise, Crowell & Moring, Washington, DC, for Intervenor Defendants/Appellees.