United States Ninth Circuit

In an action under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) challenging an Environmental Analysis conducted in connection with a logging project in Oregon, summary judgment in favor of the Bureau of Land Management on mootness grounds is reversed where the case was not moot, and an environmental assessment (EA) was inadequate as it: 1) failed to disclose and consider quantified and detailed information regarding the cumulative impact of the logging project combined with past, present, and reasonably foreseeable logging projects; and 2) it was tiered to other documents that did not contain the requisite site-specific information about cumulative effects.

Appellate Information

• Argued 07/28/2006
• Decided 12/04/2006
• Published 12/04/2006

Judges

• GOODWIN, Circuit Judge:, Before: GOODWIN, TASHIMA, and GRABER, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Ninth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Ralph O. Bloemers, Cascade Resources Advocacy Group, Portland, OR, for the plaintiffs-appellants.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael Gray, U.S. Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Washington, D.C., for Federal defendants-appellees.