Johanns

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

FOREST GUARDIANS, 

Plaintiff-Appellant, No. 04-16179 v. MIKE JOHANNS, Secretary of  D.C. No.

CV-01-00138-DCB

Agriculture; UNITED STATES FOREST

OPINION

SERVICE,

Defendants-Appellees.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona David C. Bury, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted February 15, 2006—San Francisco, California

Filed June 13, 2006

Before: Stephen Reinhardt, Richard A. Paez, and Richard C. Tallman, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Reinhardt

6547 6550 FOREST GUARDIANS v. JOHANNS

COUNSEL

Robert B. Wiygul, Waltzer & Associates, Biloxi, Mississippi, for the plaintiff-appellant.

Thomas L. Sansonetti, Assistant Attorney General, Lisa Rus- sell, M. Alice Thurston and David C. Shilton, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; and Mary Ann Joca, United States Department of Agriculture, Albuquerque, New Mexico, for the defendants-appellees. FOREST GUARDIANS v. JOHANNS 6551

OPINION

REINHARDT, Circuit Judge:

Forest Guardians appeals the district court’s determination that the…