Forest Guardians v. United States Forest Service

329 F.3d 1089 FOREST GUARDIANS, a nonprofit corporation; White Mountain Conservation League, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES FOREST SERVICE; Ann M. Veneman, in her capacity as Secretary of Agriculture of the United States, * Defendants-Appellees. No. 01-15066. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted February 14, 2002. Filed May 27, 2003. COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED James S. Angell and Marie A. Kirk, Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund, Denver, Colorado, for the plaintiffs-appellants. Katherine W. Hazard, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the defendants-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of Arizona; Owen M. Panner, Senior Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-99-01145-OMP. Before: WALLACE, KOZINSKI and PAEZ, Circuit Judges. Opinion by Judge WALLACE. Opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part by Judge PAEZ. OPINION WALLACE, Senior Circuit Judge: 1 Forest Guardians and the White Mountain Conservation League (collectively, Forest Guardians) appeal from a summary judgment in favor of the United States Forest Service (Service) regarding the Service's adoption of certain measures…