ELR Citation: ELR 20197
No(s). s. C05-03508, -04038 (N.D. Cal. Sep 20, 2006)

A district court holds that the U.S. Forest Service violated the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Endangered Species Act (ESA) when it repealed the nationally uniform "roadless area conservation rule" and replaced it with a less protective "state petitions rule." The roadless rule pr...