United States Ninth Circuit

A challenge to the U.S. Forest Service's approval of a timber sale on national forest land is not moot merely because any violation already occurred, where harm to old growth species may yet be remedied by any number of mitigation strategies.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/02/2002
• Decided 09/05/2002
• Published 09/05/2002

Judges

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas J. Woodbury, Boise, ID, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• John C. Cruden, Attorney General's Office, and Pamela S. West, Ellen J. Durkee, Tamara N. Rountree, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the defendants-appellees., Bruce M. Smith, Moore Smith Buxton & Turcke, Chtd., and William R. VanHole, Boise Cascade Corp., Boise, ID, for the defendant-intervenor-appellee.