United States Ninth Circuit

In a case alleging violations of the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) and the National Forest Management Act (NFMA) by a proposed resource management project, summary judgment for defendant is affirmed where defendant did prepare and consider alternatives to the adopted plan, and defendant's decisions were not arbitrary and capricious.

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/14/2005
• Decided 11/07/2005
• Published 11/07/2005

Judges

• 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 plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Elizabeth Ann Peterson, Attorney, Environmental & Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the defendants-appellees.