Citizens For Better Forestry v. U.S. Department Of Agriculture

341 F.3d 961 CITIZENS FOR BETTER FORESTRY; The Ecology Center; Gifford Pinchot Task Force; Kettle Range Conservation Group; Idaho Sporting Congress, Inc.; Friends Of The Clearwater; Utah Environmental Congress; Cascadia Wildlands Project; Klamath Siskiyou Wildlands Center; Southern Appalachian Biodiversity Project; Headwaters; The Lands Council, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE; United States Forest Service, Defendants-Appellees. No. 02-16009. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted March 10, 2003 — San Francisco, California. Filed August 28, 2003. COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED Michael Axline and Marc D. Fink, Western Environmental Law Center, Eugene, Oregon, and Roger Beers, Oakland, California for the plaintiffs-appellants. Thomas L. Sansonetti, Assistant Attorney General, David C. Shilton and Sylvia Quast, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. for the defendants-appellees. Appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of California; Martin J. Jenkins, District Judge, Presiding. D.C. No. CV-01-00728-MJJ. Before: John T. Noonan, A. Wallace Tashima, and Kim…