Northern Alaska Environmental Center v. Lujan

872 F.2d 901 19 Envtl. L. Rep. 20 ,865 NORTHERN ALASKA ENVIRONMENTAL CENTER; Sierra Club; Denali Citizens Council, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Manuel LUJAN, Jr. * , et al., Defendant-Appellee, and Alaska Miners Association; Resource Development Council for Alaska, Inc., Defendant-Intervenors. No. 88-3819. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted March 7, 1989. Decided April 14, 1989. Eric P. Jorgensen, Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, Inc., Juneau, Alaska, for plaintiffs-appellants. Martin W. Matzen, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, D.C., for defendant-appellee. James S. Burling, Pacific Legal Foundation, Anchorage, Alaska, for defendant-intervenors-appellee. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Alaska. Before WRIGHT and ALARCON, Circuit Judges, and RAFEEDIE, ** District Judge. ALARCON, Circuit Judge: 1 The Northern Alaska Environmental Center, the Sierra Club, Alaska Chapter, and Denali Citizens Council (Appellants) appeal from the order granting summary judgment in favor of the Secretary of the Interior and the National Park Service (NPS) on this claim for declaratory and injunctive relief regarding the practice of the NPS of…