Publication Date: 2017-05-17
Practice Area: Environmental Law
Industry: Non–Profit
Date Filed: 2017-05-17
Court: 9th Cir.
Judge: Dana L. Christensen, Chief Judge, Presiding Before: William A. Fletcher, Raymond C. Fisher, and N. Randy Smith, Circuit Judges.
Attorneys: For plaintiff: Timothy M. Bechtold (argued), Bechtold Law Firm, Missoula, Montana, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
for defendant: Thekla Hansen-Young (argued), John P. Tustin, Robert P. Stockman, and Andrew C. Mergen, Environment & Natural Resources Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.; Dana Jacobsen, Office of the Regional Solicitor, United States Department of the Interior, Denver, Colorado; Alan Campbell, Office of the General Counsel, United States Department of Agriculture, Missoula, Montana; for Defendants-Appellees.
Case Number: No. 14-35786
Closure of roads by berms or barriers sufficed to prevent them from counting towards linear miles of total roads permitted under forest plan (Fletcher, J.)