ELR Citation: ELR 20187
No(s). s. 05-35063, -35062 (9th Cir. Jul 24, 2007)

The Ninth Circuit upheld a lower court order invalidating the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM's) plan to log nearly 1,000 acres of protected land in Southwest Oregon after a major forest fire. BLM misinterpreted the relevant land use plan to allow the logging. Specifically, it relied on an erroneou...