United States Ninth Circuit

The U.S. Forest Service failed to consider the cumulative impacts of some aspects of a timber sale to satisfy the National Environmental Policy Act, and failed to comply with the Endangered Species Act.

Appellate Information

• Argued 04/01/2002
• Decided 09/16/2002
• Published 09/16/2002

Judges

• D.W. NELSON, Circuit Judge., Before:  D.W. NELSON, THOMPSON and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jory C. Ruggiero,Beck, Richardson & Amsden, Bozeman, MT, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas L. Sasonetti, Attorney General's Office, and David C. Shilton, Katherine J. Barton, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the defendants-appellees.