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In 2014, a lightning strike ignited a wildfire in the Johnson Bar Campground in Idaho's Nez Perce National Forest. As a result of the fire, a substantial amount of dead and dying timber--a dangerous source of fuel for future wildfires--remains in the forest. To remove the danger and recover the value of the timber, the United States Forest Service ...

Author: Damien M. Schiff Last week, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, sitting en banc, overturned, in Wilderness Society v. United States Forest Service, the circuit's "none but the federal defendant" rule governing private-party intervention in cases brought under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).  The Ninth ...