Native Ecosystems Council v. U.S. Forest Service, an agency of U.S. Dept. of Agriculture

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that a court does not defer to an agency interpretation of forest plan where the action is inconsistent with that plan
• recommending that instead of discounting the requirements of the applicable forest plan, the agency should go through the proper process to amend it
• finding NFMA violation where “we can- not reasonably determine that the Forest Service has complied with the [Forest] Plan”
• holding a Helena National Forest project in violation of NFMA where the forest 31 plan required that elk hiding cover be calculated using a “drainage or elk herd unit” denominator and the agency improper excluded private and non-Helena National Forest lands from the baseline
• “It is well-settled that the Forest Service’s failure to comply with the provisions of a Forest Plan is a violation of NFMA.”
• “It is well-settled that the Forest Service’s failure to comply with the provisions of a Forest Plan is a violation of NFMA.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).