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FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

SOUTH FORK BAND COUNCIL OF 

WESTERN SHOSHONE OF NEVADA;

TE- MOAK TRIBE OF WESTERN

SHOSHONE INDIANS OF NEVADA;

TIMBISHA SHOSHONE TRIBE;

WESTERN SHOSHONE DEFENSE

PROJECT; GREAT BASIN RESOURCE

WATCH,

Plaintiffs-Appellants, No. 09-15230 v. D.C. No. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE  3:08-cv-00616-

LRH-RAM

INTERIOR; UNITED STATES

BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT; OPINION

GERALD M. SMITH, District Manager, Battle Mountain Field Office, Defendants-Appellees, and

BARRICK CORTEZ, INC.,

Defendant-intervenor-Appellee.  Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Nevada Larry R. Hicks, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted June 10, 2009—San Francisco, California

Filed December 3, 2009

Before: Mary M. Schroeder, A. Wallace Tashima and Marsha S. Berzon, Circuit Judges.

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COUNSEL

Roger Flynn, Lyons, Colorado, for the plaintiffs-appellants.

Francis M. Wikstrom, Salt Lake City, Utah, for defendant- appellee Barrick…