Natural Resources Defense Council v. United States Forest Service

421 F.3d 797 NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL; Southeast Alaska Conservation Council; Sierra Club; National Audubon Society; The Wilderness Society; Center for Biological Diversity, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES FOREST SERVICE; U.S. Department of Agriculture; Mark Rey; Dennis E. Bschor; Forrest Cole, Defendants-Appellees, State of Alaska; Alaska Forest Association, Defendants-Intervenors-Appellees. No. 04-35868. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Argued and Submitted February 15, 2005. Filed August 5, 2005. COPYRIGHT MATERIAL OMITTED Thomas S. Waldo and Eric P. Jorgensen, Earthjustice, Juneau, AK, and Nathaniel S.W. Lawrence, Natural Resources Defense Council, Olympia, WA, for the plaintiffs-appellants. Thomas L. Sansonetti, Assistant Attorney General, Andrew C. Mergen, Bruce M. Landon, David C. Shilton, and Elizabeth Ann Peterson, Environment & Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the defendants-appellees. Steve Silver and Ruth Hamilton Heese, Robertson, Monagle & Eastaugh, Juneau, Alaska, and Gregg Renkes, Attorney General for State of Alaska, and Zachary Falcon, Assistant Attorney General for State…