ForestKeeper

ORDER ON CROSS-MOTIONS FOR SUMMARY JUDGMENT; PLAINTIFF’S MOTION TO ADMIT EXTRA-RECORD EVIDENCE; DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO STRIKE PLAINTIFF’S EXTRA-RECORD EVIDENCE; AND PLAINTIFF’S MOTION TO STRIKE THE DECLARATION OF JEFFREY R. CORDES

This is a National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”) and National Forest Management Act (“NFMA”) case filed by Plaintiff Sequoia Forest Keeper (“SF Keeper” or “Plaintiff’) against the United States Forest Service (“Forest Service”) and various Forest Service employees in their official capacities (collectively, “Defendants”) to halt the Frog Timber sale Project (“Frog Project” or “Frog”). Sierra Forest Products (“SF Products”), the corporation with the contract to carry out the Frog Project, is an Intervenor-Defendant. SF Keeper has brought a civil action for declaratory and injunctive relief, which stems from Defendants’ ongoing actions related to the Frog Project, permitting commercial logging and other activities in what SF Keeper maintains is core habitat for the Pacific Fisher (“Fisher”) in the Greenhorn Mountains of the Sequoia National Forest. Fishers are a mammalian species that have been classified as a “sensitive species.”

SF Keeper maintains,…