United States Ninth Circuit

The US Forest Service's error in determining the projected market demand for Tongass timber rendered the Plan for the Tongass National Forest arbitrary and capricious, in violation of the Administrative Procedure Act.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/15/2005
• Decided 08/05/2005
• Published 08/05/2005

Judges

• GOULD, Circuit Judge:, Before: B. FLETCHER, McKEOWN, and GOULD, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas S. Waldo and Eric P. Jorgensen, Earthjustice, Juneau, AK, and Nathaniel S.W. Lawrence, Natural Resources Defense Council, Olympia, WA, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas L. Sansonetti, Assistant Attorney General, Andrew C. Mergen, Bruce M. Landon, David C. Shilton, and Elizabeth Ann Peterson, Environment & Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the defendants-appellees., Steve Silver and Ruth Hamilton Heese, Robertson, Monagle & Eastaugh, Juneau, Alaska, and Gregg Renkes, Attorney General for State of Alaska, and Zachary Falcon, Assistant Attorney General for State of Alaska, for the defendants-intervenors.