United States Ninth Circuit

The US Forest Service's approval of the North Elkhorns Vegetation Treatment Project violates the National Environmental Policy Act where the agency did not take a "hard look" at the project's true effect and failed to inform the public of the project's environmental impact.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/14/2005
• Decided 08/11/2005
• Published 08/11/2005

Judges

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

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Thomas J. Woodbury, Forest Defense, P.C., Missoula, MT, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Todd S. Aagaard, Michael T. Gray, Department of Justice, Washington, DC, for the defendants-appellees.