The U.S. Forest Service and environmental advocates successfully defended the Clinton administration's Roadless Area Conservation Rule, winning a decision Oct. 21 by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit requiring a district court to vacate its nationwide injunction against the rule (Wyoming v. USDA, 10th Cir., No. 09-8075, 10/21/11). The state of Wyoming, with support from the Colorado Mining Association, had won a decision in the U.S. District Court for the District of Wyoming on claims that the 2001 roadless rule violated the Wilderness Act and the National Environmental Policy Act by creating de facto wilderness areas and by doing so without following NEPA procedural requirements.
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