Case Name: GREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION; Jackson Hole Alliance For Responsible Planning; American Buffalo Foundation; Gallatin Wildlife Association; Defenders of Wildlife; David A. Ritchey, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Bruce BABBITT, Secretary, United States Department of Interior; Roger Kennedy, Director, National Park Service; Michael Finley, Superintendent, Yellowstone National Park; Daniel Glickman, Secretary, United States Department of Agriculture; Jack Ward Thomas, Chief, United States Forest Service; Terry Medley, Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Defendants-Appellees, and State of Montana; Marc Racicot, Governor of the State of Montana, Defendants-Intervenors-Appellees; Intertribal Bison Cooperative; Defenders of Wildlife; Greater Yellowstone Coalition; Jackson Hole Alliance for Responsible Planning; David A. Ritchey Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Bruce Babbitt, in his official capacity as Secretary of the Interior, Denis Galvin, in his official capacity as Acting Deputy Director of the National Park Service; Michael Finley, in his official capacity as Superintendent of Yellowstone National Park; Michael Dombeck, in his official capacity as Chief of the United States Forest Service; Terry Medley, in his official capacity as Governor of the state of Montana; Laurence Peterson, in his official capacity as Executive Officer of the Montana Department of Livestock; State of Montana, Department of Livestock, a state agency; Patrick J. Graham, in his official capacity as Director of Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks; State of Montana, Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, Defendants-Appellees
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 1999-05-06
Citations: 175 F.3d 1149
Docket Number: Nos. 98-36151, 98-36152
Parties: GREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION; Jackson Hole Alliance For Responsible Planning; American Buffalo Foundation; Gallatin Wildlife Association; Defenders of Wildlife; David A. Ritchey, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Bruce BABBITT, Secretary, United States Department of Interior; Roger Kennedy, Director, National Park Service; Michael Finley, Superintendent, Yellowstone National Park; Daniel Glickman, Secretary, United States Department of Agriculture; Jack Ward Thomas, Chief, United States Forest Service; Terry Medley, Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Defendants-Appellees, and State of Montana; Marc Racicot, Governor of the State of Montana, Defendants-Intervenors-Appellees. Intertribal Bison Cooperative; Defenders of Wildlife; Greater Yellowstone Coalition; Jackson Hole Alliance for Responsible Planning; David A. Ritchey Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Bruce Babbitt, in his official capacity as Secretary of the Interior, Denis Galvin, in his official capacity as Acting Deputy Director of the National Park Service; Michael Finley, in his official capacity as Superintendent of Yellowstone National Park; Michael Dombeck, in his official capacity as Chief of the United States Forest Service; Terry Medley, in his official capacity as Governor of the state of Montana; Laurence Peterson, in his official capacity as Executive Officer of the Montana Department of Livestock; State of Montana, Department of Livestock, a state agency; Patrick J. Graham, in his official capacity as Director of Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks; State of Montana, Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, Defendants-Appellees.
Judges: Before: PREGERSON and THOMPSON, Circuit Judges, and KELLEHER, Senior District Judge.
Reporter: Federal Reporter 3d Series
Volume: 175
Pages: 1149–1150

Head Matter:
GREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION; Jackson Hole Alliance For Responsible Planning; American Buffalo Foundation; Gallatin Wildlife Association; Defenders of Wildlife; David A. Ritchey, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Bruce BABBITT, Secretary, United States Department of Interior; Roger Kennedy, Director, National Park Service; Michael Finley, Superintendent, Yellowstone National Park; Daniel Glickman, Secretary, United States Department of Agriculture; Jack Ward Thomas, Chief, United States Forest Service; Terry Medley, Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, Defendants-Appellees, and State of Montana; Marc Racicot, Governor of the State of Montana, Defendants-Intervenors-Appellees. Intertribal Bison Cooperative; Defenders of Wildlife; Greater Yellowstone Coalition; Jackson Hole Alliance for Responsible Planning; David A. Ritchey Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Bruce Babbitt, in his official capacity as Secretary of the Interior, Denis Galvin, in his official capacity as Acting Deputy Director of the National Park Service; Michael Finley, in his official capacity as Superintendent of Yellowstone National Park; Michael Dombeck, in his official capacity as Chief of the United States Forest Service; Terry Medley, in his official capacity as Governor of the state of Montana; Laurence Peterson, in his official capacity as Executive Officer of the Montana Department of Livestock; State of Montana, Department of Livestock, a state agency; Patrick J. Graham, in his official capacity as Director of Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks; State of Montana, Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, Defendants-Appellees.
Nos. 98-36151, 98-36152.
United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.
Argued and Submitted April 13, 1999.
Decided May 6, 1999.
James S. Angelí, Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund, Bozeman, Montana, for the plaintiffs-appellants.
Andrew Mergen, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., for the defendants-appellees.
John E. Bloomquist, Doney, Crowley, Bloomquist & Uda, Helena, Montana, for the intervenors-appellees.
Before: PREGERSON and THOMPSON, Circuit Judges, and KELLEHER, Senior District Judge.
. The Honorable Robert J. ICelleher, Senior United States District Judge for the Central District of California, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
ORDER
We affirm for reasons set forth in the district court's well-reasoned opinion and order reported at Intertribal Bison Cooperative, et al., v. Babbitt, 25 F.Supp.2d 1135 (D. Mont.1998).
SO ORDERED.