Epi

The Environmental Protection Information Center (“EPIC”) appeals from the district court’s summary judgment in favor of the United States Forest Service (“USFS”). EPIC challenges USFS’s failure to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (“EIS”) in connection with the proposed Knob Timber Sale in the Kla-math National Forest and further argues that the Environmental Assessment (“EA”) USFS did prepare was inadequate. EPIC also contends that the project violates the National Forest Management Act (“NFMA”). We affirm.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

The Knob Timber Sale (the “Project”) is a vegetation management project affecting the Salmon River Ranger District of the Klamath National Forest. The Project provides for harvesting timber from approximately 578 acres, scattered among twenty-seven units throughout the forest. The stated purpose of the Project “is to maintain stand health by leading stands into a resilient condition where they can provide a sustained yield of wood products and reduce their risk to potential catastrophic fire.”

USFS issued an EA for the Project in October 2002. In preparing the EA, USFS relied on a number of documents, reports and studies, including…