Oregon Wild v. Kent Connaughton

MEMORANDUM

The district court did not abuse its discretion in dissolving the injunction it had issued in accordance with Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund (ONRC) v. Goodman, 505 F.3d 884, 898 (9th Cir.2007). See N. Alaska Envtl. Ctr. v. Lujan, 961 F.2d 886 , 889 (9th Cir.1992).

I.

The district court did not abuse its discretion in finding that the Forest Service achieved the injunction’s objective, see Horne v. Flores, 557 U.S. 433, 450 , 129 S.Ct. 2579, 174 L.Ed.2d 406 (2009), by classifying all Landslide Hazard Zone 2 (LHZ 2) land as Riparian Reserve and subjecting the reclassified land to the scrutiny required by the Rogue River Land Resource Management Plan (LRMP), the Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP), and the National Forest Management Act (NFMA). The 2011 Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement (SFEIS) and Supplemental Record of Decision (SROD), which re-approved the MASA expansion, analyzed the project in light of the LHZ 2 reclassification, considering the degree of increase to vegetation clearing and grading within Riparian Reserves and the decrease in forested landcover. In any event, the Forest Service’s decision was not arbitrary or capricious, see League…