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1 Feb, 2008 10:23 am
... held in contempt because of circumstances beyond its control, is duplicitous at best. A straight reading of the record here indicates that the Forest Service had no intention to comply with the Court's orders, or, at the very least - considering its
lackluster participation ... Undersecretary of Agriculture Mark Rey in a correctional facility, or placing him under house arrest, until the United States Forest Service has
met its legal and regulatory obligations and complied with the Court's Orders. ...
26 Mar 10:25 am
... dedicated to protecting the environment, did not have standing to challenge certain United States
Forest Service ("Service") regulations respecting salvage
timber sales. In reversing the Ninth Circuit, the ... Service consider categorically excluded from the requirement to file an environmental
impact assessment or environmental assessment. In this case, the Service determined that the salvage timber sale was categorically excluded
from the requirement to file an environmental impact assessment or ...
26 Mar 10:25 am
... dedicated to protecting the environment, did not have standing to challenge certain United States
Forest Service ("Service") regulations respecting salvage
timber sales. In reversing the Ninth Circuit, the ... Service consider categorically excluded from the requirement to file an environmental
impact assessment or environmental assessment. In this case, the Service determined that the salvage timber sale was categorically excluded
from the requirement to file an environmental impact assessment or ...
26 Mar 10:25 am
... dedicated to protecting the environment, did not have standing to challenge certain United States
Forest Service ("Service") regulations respecting salvage
timber sales. In reversing the Ninth Circuit, the ... Service consider categorically excluded from the requirement to file an environmental
impact assessment or environmental assessment. In this case, the Service determined that the salvage timber sale was categorically excluded
from the requirement to file an environmental impact assessment or ...
28 Jul 10:01 am
... , a large underground coal mine lying beneath the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre, and Gunnison National Forests in Colorado. After the United States Forest Service
approved plans for venting methane gas from the mine, WildEarth Guardians brought suit against the Forest ... rely on the defendants to
represent its interests." Access the complete opinion (click here). Waste Information & Management Services, Inc. (WIMS) Publishers of Michigan Waste Report, REGTrak, WIMS
Daily & eNewsUSA E-Mail: info@ ...
12 Mar, 2007 11:00 am
... for the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. Today's opinion begins: The San Francisco Peaks in the Coconino National Forest in northern
Arizona have long-standing religious significance to numerous Indian tribes of the American Southwest. ... the highest and most religiously significant of the San Francisco Peaks. After
preparing an Environmental Impact Statement, the United States Forest Service approved a proposed expansion of the Snowbowl's facilities. One component of the expansion would
enable ...
3 Mar 9:21 am
... group social group, or political opinion." Neguise eventually escaped the prison and made his way to the United States, where he applied for asylum. An immigration judge and the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) both denied Neguise' ... a procedural right without some
concrete interest that is affected by the deprivation" does not provide the groups the "standing" to challenge the Forest Service in court. The justices yesterday declined to review a federal appeals court decision that barred a high ...
27 Aug, 2007 11:54 pm
In The Access Fund v. United States Department of Agriculture, (9th Cir., Aug. 27, 2007), the U.S.
9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a decision by the U.S. Forest Service to ban recreational rock
climbing on Cave ... Washoe Indian tribe, and the Washoes consider rock climbing to be a desecration of the site. Plaintiff, a climbing advocacy group, argued that the Forest Service's decision violated the Establishment Clause. The court, however, disagreed, finding that the
Forest Service had a secular ...
16 Sep, 2008 10:24 pm
... intiolerance and cultural marginalization in the homeland, played a critical role in the evolution of the protection of religious liberty in the United States. It is the story of religion, migration, race, culture, assimilation. It is a story tinged with irony.
It ... ñigos. They are the devotees of voodooistic worship who celebrate their orgiastic rites in remote huts or in forest retreats. The appeal
of this cult is, of course, to the lowest type of intellect and the basest passions. Practically ...
6 Aug 9:23 am
... No. 07-15613 & 07-15695. As explained by the Appeals Court, this case involves procedural challenges to a United States Forest Service Rule known as the "State Petitions Rule." The
plaintiffs, several states and various environmentalist ... of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced the signing of an interim directive regarding
inventoried roadless areas within the National Forests and Grasslands. At the time Vilsack said, "This interim directive will provide consistency and clarity that will help ...
9 Jul 8:34 pm
... Civil No. 07-1871-HA. (D. Oregon, June 15, 2009). HAGGERTY, District Judge EXCERPT: Because the United States Forest Service (Forest
Service) has reinitiated formal consultation pursuant to � 7 of the Endangered Species Act, they are required to prove that the grazing
proposed for the Malheur National Forest (MNF) for 2009 will not jeopardize listed species. Washington Toxics Coalition v. Environmental
Protection Agency, 413 F.3d 1024, 1035 ...
14 Aug 9:53 am
Aug 13: In the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, Case No. 07-16892. This complicated appeal and decision concerns three United
States Forest Service (USFS) projects -- Empire, Slapjack
and Basin -- that attempt to fund fire prevention activities in the Plumas National Forest in California by awarding logging contracts to
private parties. The Appeals Court said, "We must decide whether the district court abused its discretion by denying ...
8 Jul, 2008 6:30 am
In Nenninger v. United States Forest Service, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 51212 (WD AR, July 3, 2008), an Arkansas federal district court dismissed a challenge to U.S. Forest Service regulations requiring a ... 261, Subpart A.) The regulations were challenged by a member of the
Rainbow Family, a group that regularly gathers in undeveloped sites in National Forests to pray for peace and discuss environmental and other issues. Its annual gatherings near
July 4 usually attract 20,000 ...
10 Sep, 2008 4:41 pm
... , inequality, and environmental harm. These criticisms fail to understand the land use regulatory system in the United States as a dynamic, functional, adaptive system. This paper systematically analyzes the: 1) functions; 2) location and ... .com/abstract=1089536 Abstract:
This paper uses the Tillamook State Forest as a case study to explore the potential for applying an ecosystem services model to
future management of a forested watershed with numerous interested constituencies. Part II describes ...
8 Mar, 2007 1:25 pm
... of the eloquent and analytically adept editorial page of the New York Times, the press generally is failing to see the "forest for the
trees" in this process. Taking a clue from the recent Times editorial which offered a legal "must-do" list - ... of the Compromise of 1876-77 was agreement to preclude the military from
exercising police functions within the territory of the United States with a handful of very limited
exceptions, all implemented in the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878. This included ...
30 Apr 8:47 am
... and related services." Mr. Feinerman argued that even when a school district believes a child is not entitled to services at all, and seeks to appeal the decision of a
hearing officer finding otherwise, it will create a provisional Individual Education ... Miller appeared next on behalf of the United
States as an amicus curiae supporting the respondent. He reiterated the seeming inconsistency that if Forest Grove had provided T.A. with special education services that were later determined to be ...
19 Jul 6:01 am
... of timber sale made sense is long gone. . . . Cutting these trees will not even bring in half the money the Forest Service will spend building a road to get to the trees." The sale will require building or updating eight miles of roads, which ... boost." In reporting the
Orion North sale, MongaBay.com reports: "The U.S. has the world's seventh highest rate of primary forest loss in the world. Between 2000 and
2005, the United States lost an average of 831 square miles (215,200 hectares) of "primary ...
4 Sep 2:12 am
... the Village of Forest Park in 2003. Upon her election, the Village provided Ms. Steinbach with a personal email account that was hosted by
Hostway Corporation, a third party webmail service. Ms ... section for ECPA Part I defines "person" to include "any employee, or agent of the
United States or any State or political subdivision thereof . . . ." 18 U.S.C. § 2510(6 ...
Supp.2d 264 (E.D.Pa. 2007) (SCA does not preempt state laws dealing with the same subject matter as the SCA); Ideal Aerosmith, Inc. v. ...
21 Jan 2:03 am
... Federal Claims, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in Cary v. United States, No.
2008-5022 (Jan. 16, 2009) held that the federal government ... likely, foreseeable result of a policy of fire suppression and recreational use," only that the Forest Service knew of a risk, and taking a risk is not the same as making the result ... fire was an intervening
cause which broke any perceived chain of causation between the Forest Service's policies and the
Cedar Fire. Slip op. at 9. "The landowners ...
23 Oct, 2007 1:02 pm
The National Forest Service has been forced to team up with the U.S. Border Patrol to protect
nature-loving hikers from being victimized by violent drug traffickers and alien smugglers that use the pristine areas to enter ... . Because parts of the Coronado National
Forest sit beside Mexico, drug cartels and alien smugglers are increasingly using it to enter the United States. The forest's remote makeshift roads are especially popular
with drug smugglers avoiding U.S. Border Patrol agents. In fact, ...
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