Blm

FOR PUBLICATION

UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS

FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

KLAMATH SISKIYOU WILDLANDS 

CENTER; CASCADIA WILDLANDS

PROJECT; UMPQUA WATERSHEDS, No. 08-35463 Plaintiffs-Appellees, v.  D.C. No. 1:05-CV-03094-CL

UNITED STATES BUREAUOF LAND OPINION

MANAGEMENT,

Defendant-Appellant. 

Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Oregon Owen M. Panner, District Judge, Presiding

Argued and Submitted June 1, 2009—Portland, Oregon

Filed December 15, 2009

Before: Diarmuid F. O’Scannlain, Ferdinand F. Fernandez, and Raymond C. Fisher, Circuit Judges.

16545 16548 KLAMATH SISKIYOU WILDLANDS CENTER v. BLM

COUNSEL

Robert Lundman, United States Department of Justice, Wash- ington, D.C., argued the cause for appellant and submitted briefs. Brian Perron, Office of the Solicitor, Department of the Interior, Washington, D.C.; and Ronald J. Tenpas, Assistant Attorney General, Beverly F. Li, and Andrews C. Mergen, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., were also on the briefs.

Erin Madden, Cascadia Law P.C., Portland, Oregon, argued the cause for appellees and filed a…