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Nature of Suit Code: 893
Nature of Suit: Environmental Matters
Cause of Action: 42:4321 Review of Agency Action-Environment

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Joint Stip. Resetting Status Conf. & Continuing Stay of Litigation, C 07-CV-1654 AWI GSA

RONALD J. TENPAS

Assistant Attorney General 

Environment & Natural Resources Division

CYNTHIA HUBER

Assistant Section Chief

United States Department of Justice 

Environment & Natural Resources Division

P.O. Box 663

Washington, DC 20044-0663

BARCLAY SAMFORD

Trial Attorney

Natural Resources Section

Environment & Natural Resources Division

U.S. Department of Justice

1961 Stout Street - 8th Floor

Denver, CO 80294

Telephone: (303) 844-1475

Facsimile: (303) 844-1350

Attorneys for Defendants

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

FOR THE EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

SIERRA FOREST LEGACY, SIERRA

CLUB, EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE,

and CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANT

SOCIETY, non-profit organizations,

 Plaintiffs,

v. 

BERNARD WEINGARDT, in his official

capacity as Regional Forester, Region 5,

United States Forest Service, EDWARD

COLE, in his official capacity as Forest

Supervisor, Sierra National Forest

United States Forest Service, ABIGAIL

R. KIMBELL, in her official capacity as

Chief of the United States Forest Service,

and UNITED STATES FOREST

SERVICE, an agency of the United States

Department of Agriculture,

 Defendants.

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CASE NO: C 07-CV-1654 AWI GSA

JOINT STIPULATION AND

ORDER RESETTING SCHEDULING

CONFERENCE AND 

CONTINUING STAY

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Joint Stip. Resetting Status Conf. & Continuing Stay of Litigation, C 07-CV-1654 AWI GSA - 1 -

Plaintiffs and Defendants, by their undersigned attorneys, have conferred and hereby

stipulate as follows:

1. On May 18, 2007, Plaintiffs filed the above captioned action challenging the Kings

River Project on the Sierra National Forest.

2. On October 17, 2007, the District Court for the Northern District granted

Defendants’ motion to transfer the case to the Eastern District. 

3. On November 26, 2007, this Court granted the parties’ motion to stay the litigation

for 90 days to discuss settlement. That stay is scheduled to expire on February 25, 2008.

4. The parties are scheduled to file a Joint Scheduling Report on February 12, 2008

and to appear telephonically for a scheduling conference on February 19, 2008

5. On February 11, 2008, the Forest Service withdrew the Record of Decision

authorizing the Kings River Project. 

6. The parties and their counsel need additional time to confer and determine the

impact of the withdrawal of the Kings River Project on this litigation. 

7. The parties therefore propose that the Scheduling Conference be reset for March 4,

2008. 

8. No later than February 26, 2008, the parties will file a status report advising the

Court of how the parties view the impact of the project withdrawal on this litigation.

9. The parties propose the current stay of the litigation be continued until March 4,

2008.

Respectfully submitted this 11 day of February, 2008, th

RONALD J. TENPAS

Assistant Attorney General 

Environment & Natural Resources Division

/s/ Barclay Samford 

BARCLAY SAMFORD

Trial Attorney

Natural Resources Section

Environment & Natural Resources Division

U.S. Department of Justice

1961 Stout Street - 8th Floor

Denver, CO 80294

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Joint Stip. Resetting Status Conf. & Continuing Stay of Litigation, C 07-CV-1654 AWI GSA - 2 -

On behalf of Defendants

 /s/ Michael R. Sherwood 

Michael R. Sherwood, State Bar No. 63702

Earthjustice

426 17 Street, 5 Floor th th

Oakland, CA 94612

On behalf of Plaintiffs Sierra Forest Legacy, Sierra Club and

California Native Plan Society

 /s/ Rachel M. Fazio 

John Muir Project

PO Box 697

Cedar Ridge, CA 95924

On behalf of Plaintiff Earth Island Institute

PURSUANT TO STIPULATION, it is ORDERED that:

1. The Scheduling Conference set for February 19, 2008 is VACATED and reset for

March 4, 2008 at 9:30 am in Courtroom 10 before the Honorable Gary S. Austin. 

The parties may appear telephonically. 

2. No later than February 26, 2008, the parties will file a status report advising the

Court of how the parties view the impact of the project withdrawal on the

litigation.

3. This litigation will remain STAYED until March 4, 2008. The motion to intervene

filed by the proposed defendant intervenors on November 26, 2007, and the

briefing schedule for that motion is also STAYED until March 4, 2008. A status

conference regarding the Motion to Intervene will be held in conjunction with the

scheduling conference.

IT IS SO ORDERED. 

Dated: February 15, 2008 /s/ Gary S. Austin 

60kij8 UNITED STATES MAGISTRATE JUDGE

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