Nell D. Autery, as Administratrix of the Estate of Roy Franklin Autery Charlotte Schreiner v. United States

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• concluding that Park Service hazardous tree elimination program involved exercise of discretion in targeting trees for removal
• holding that the Park Service’s “likely” balancing of different considerations in deciding on a method of inspecting hazardous trees involved policy considerations
• holding that an unwritten policy requiring “that employees ‘make every effort within the constraints of budget, manpower, and equipment available to recognize and report’ hazardous trees” did not create a mandatory directive
• finding that the discretionary function should apply when government officials had to consider \the extent to which the natural state of the forest should be preserved\
• observing that an unspecific statutory or regulatory guideline implies that discretion was intended
• criticizing the district court’s analysis because it ’’appealed] to [have] collapse[d] the question of whether the Park Service was negligent into the discretionary function inquiry”

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