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· 1/12/2006

Silverton Snowmobile Club v. United States Forest Service

Citations

  • 433 F.3d 772
  • 36 Envtl. L. Rep. (Envtl. Law Inst.) 20014
  • 2006 U.S. App. LEXIS 688
  • 2006 WL 62849

How courts have described this case

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

  • finding that the agency “satisfied NEPA’s ‘hard look’ requirement” where it considered “that human activity in the area was expected to increase dramatically in the next decade” in determining the proper restrictions on recreation activities adjacent to a protected species’ habitat
  • disagreeing with Plaintiffs’ argument that an assumption that a particular species was present in the habitat at issue violated NEPA’s “hard look” requirement
  • affirming Forest Service and BLM’s reliance on FWS findings in biological assessments in conducting NEPA analysis
  • describing how \[t]he regulations which implement the NFMA have been frequently amended\
  • rejecting argument that findings of user conflict based on comments “are not objectively quantifiable”
  • describing how “[t]he regulations which implement the NFMA have been frequently amended”

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Judges: Henry, Anderson, O'Brien

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