Roadless rule reinstatement ruling [9th Circuit]

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Roadless rule reinstatement ruling [9th Circuit]

August 5, 2009 02:21:00 pm

People of the State of California Ex Rel. Bill Lockyer v. US Department of Agriculture, US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, August 5, 2009 [affirming the reinstatement of the Roadless Rule, which prohibited the building of roads or the use of roadless lands in National Parks for timber production].

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