Blue Mountains Biodiversity Project v. Blackwood

ELR Citation: ELR 20424
No(s). 98-35783 (9th Cir. Dec 2, 1998)

The court holds that the U.S. Forest Service must prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) for several timber salvage sales on fire-damaged land in the Umatilla National Forest in Oregon. The court first holds that the Forest Service did not take the requisite hard look at the environmental i...