Native Village Of Quinhagak v. United States

35 F.3d 388 25 Envtl. L. Rep. 20 ,291 NATIVE VILLAGE OF QUINHAGAK; Native Village of Goodnews Bay; the Association of Village Council Presidents; Louie Smith; Annie Cleveland, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES of America; Manuel Lujan, Jr., in his official capacity as Secretary of the United States Dept. of the Interior; State of Alaska; Carl Rosier, in his official capacity as the Commissioner of the Alaska Dept. of Fish & Game, Defendants-Appellees. No. 93-35496. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Aug. 4, 1994. Decided Sept. 1, 1994. John Starkey (argued) Ass'n of Village Council Presidents, Bethel, AK; Joseph D. Johnson (on the briefs) Alaska Legal Services Corp., Anchorage, AK, for the plaintiffs-appellants. Elizabeth Ann Peterson, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, for the federal defendants-appellees; Joanne M. Grace, Asst. Atty. Gen., Anchorage, AK, for the state defendants-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Alaska. Before: PREGERSON, CANBY, and BOOCHEVER, Circuit Judges. PREGERSON, Circuit Judge: 1 The Native Villages of Quinhagak and Goodnews Bay and others appeal the district court's…