League of Wilderness Defenders v. United States Forest Service

ELR Citation: 42 ELR 20145
No(s). 3:10-CV-01397 (D. Or. Jun 29, 2012) (Simon, J.)

A district court held that the U.S. Forest Service violated NEPA, but not the NFMA, in approving the use of herbicides to control invasive plant species in the Wallowa-Whitman National Forest. The Wallowa-Whitman National Forest comprises 2.3 million acres in the northeast corner of Oregon and the w...