Bosworth

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

SIERRA CLUB; SIERRA NEVADA 

FOREST PROTECTION CAMPAIGN,

Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. No. 05-16989 DALE BOSWORTH, Chief of the US Forest Service; JOHN BARRY;  D.C. No.

CV-04-02114-GEB

LAURIE TIPPIN; UNITED STATES

OPINION

FOREST SERVICE; ANN M.

VENEMAN; DEPT. OF AGRICULTURE;

MIKE JOHANNS,

Defendants-Appellees.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California Garland E. Burrell, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted April 16, 2007—San Francisco, California

Filed December 5, 2007

Before: David R. Thompson, Andrew J. Kleinfeld, and Sidney R. Thomas, Circuit Judges.

Opinion by Judge Thompson; Concurrence by Judge Kleinfeld

15927 SIERRA CLUB v. BOSWORTH 15931

COUNSEL

Eric. E. Hubner, Boulder, Colorado, and Kristin Henry, San Francisco, California, for the plaintiffs-appellants.

MacGregor W. Scott, Sacramento, California, for defendants- appellees.

OPINION

THOMPSON, Senior Circuit Judge:

Appellants the Sierra Club and the Sierra Nevada Forest Protection Campaign (collectively,…