United States Ninth Circuit

In a dispute involving the environmental impact of cattle grazing on certain national forest land, a judgment for the U.S. Forest Service is reversed where the Forest Service's failure to re-initiate informal consultation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on the land at issue violated the Endangered Species Act (ESA).

Appellate Information

• Argued 02/15/2006
• Decided 06/13/2006
• Published 06/13/2006

Judges

• REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:, Before: REINHARDT, PAEZ, and TALLMAN, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert B. Wiygul, Waltzer & Associates, Biloxi, MS, for the plaintiff-appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas L. Sansonetti, Assistant Attorney General, Lisa Russell, M. Alice Thurston and David C. Shilton, United States Department of Justice, Washington, DC;  and Mary Ann Joca, United States Department of Agriculture, Albuquerque, NM, for the defendants-appellees.