Therese U. Donnelly, Personal Representative of the Estate of Joseph F. Donnelly, Deceased v. United States of America Secretary of the Interior Director, Bureau of Land Management and Eklutna, Inc., James W. Lee v. United States of America Secretary of the Interior Director, Bureau of Land Management Eklutna, Inc. Cook Inlet Region, Inc.

841 F.2d 968 Therese U. DONNELLY, Personal Representative of the Estate of Joseph F. Donnelly, deceased, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America; Secretary of the Interior; Director, Bureau of Land Management and Eklutna, Inc., Defendants-Appellees. James W. LEE, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America; Secretary of the Interior; Director, Bureau of Land Management; Eklutna, Inc.; Cook Inlet Region, Inc., Defendants-Appellees. Nos. 86-4428, 87-3834. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Feb. 4, 1988. Decided March 10, 1988. Steven P. Oliver, Anchorage, Alaska, for plaintiffs-appellants. Vicki L. Plaut, Land & Natural Resources Div., Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C.; David P. Wolf, Copeland, Landye, Bennett and Wolf, Anchorage, Alaska, for defendants-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Alaska. Before ANDERSON and FLETCHER, Circuit Judges, and CARROLL, * District Judge. FLETCHER, Circuit Judge: 1 This action arises from a land dispute between the United States and several homesteaders in the Eagle River Valley area in Alaska. Some of these claims have already been decided adversely to the…