ELR Citation: 41 ELR 20107
No(s). 1:09-cv-00023 JWS (D. Alaska Mar 4, 2011)

A district court set aside a U.S. Forest Service rule exempting the Tongass National Forest—the nation's largest—from the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. The court ruled that the exemption was arbitrary and capricious because the Forest Service failed to provide a rational basis for temporarily...