United States Ninth Circuit

A phased-in reduction scheme included in ten-year cattle grazing permits is a proper limit on the number of livestock a permitee can graze on his allotment, and did not violate a Forest Plan. Allocating available forage to livestock and monitoring use of land was consistent with the Plan.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/14/2002
• Decided 05/27/2003
• Published 05/27/2003

Judges

• Before:  WALLACE, KOZINSKI and PAEZ, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• James S. Angell and Marie A. Kirk, Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund, Denver, Colorado, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Katherine W. Hazard, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the defendants-appellees.