National Wildlife Federation v. Mike Espy

45 F.3d 1337 40 ERC 1129 , 31 Fed.R.Serv.3d 1075 , 25 Envtl. L. Rep. 20 ,864 NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION; Idaho Wildlife Federation, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Mike ESPY, * Secretary of the U.S. Department of Agriculture; La Verne Ausman, Administrator of Farmers Home Administration; Tracy L. Baxter, and Sharon L. Baxter, Defendants-Appellees, and Farm Credit Bank of Spokane, Defendant. No. 92-35568. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted Dec. 14, 1993. Submission Vacated Feb. 4, 1994. Resubmitted Oct. 11, 1994. Decided Jan. 20, 1995. Thomas M. France, Nat. Wildlife Federation, Missoula, MT and Marion Yoder, Nat. Wildlife Federation, Bismark, ND, for plaintiffs-appellants. Andrea Nervi Ward, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Washington, DC, for defendants-appellees. Stephen C. Hardesty, Hawley, Troxell, Ennis & Hawley, Boise, ID, for defendants-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Idaho. Before: BROWNING, NORRIS, and O'SCANNLAIN, Circuit Judges. JAMES R. BROWNING, Circuit Judge: 1 Farmers Home Administration ("FmHA") took title to the Lazy C-H Ranch in Bear Lake County, Idaho, from a delinquent borrower, subject to a…