Opinion ID: 167827
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Heading: Affidavit of Don Wood

Text: 24 MSLF claims that it has established the specific facts necessary to show individual standing through an MSLF member — specifically, Don Wood. It points to the affidavit of Mr. Wood, which states that he is a member of MSLF and that his business, Southwest Stone, mined alabaster from mines on what is now Monument land for nearly 20 years. Approximately sixty to seventy percent of Southwest Stone's alabaster sales came from three such mines. In 1998, the Bureau of Land Management voided Southwest Stone's three mining claims for failure to comply with annual filing requirements. Because the Monument had been established in the area two years earlier, Southwest Stone was unable to refile its mining claims, the loss of which put Southwest Stone out of business in 1999. Mr. Wood maintains in his affidavit that [b]ut for the creation of the Monument, he and his business partner would simply have refiled the claims and preserved our business. MSLF argues that this inability to refile the mining claims by Mr. Wood is the injury-in-fact and that Mr. Wood owes the loss of his entire business and livelihood to the designation of the Monument. 5 25