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073689P.pdf 03/06/2009 Wilderness Watch v. Abigail Kimbell
U.S. Court of Appeals Case No: 07-3689
and No: 07-3696
and No: 08-1167
U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - Minneapolis
[PUBLISHED] [Smith, Author, with Loken, Chief Judge, and Bye, Circuit Judges]
Civil case - Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness Act. Plaintiff's
claim that the Forest Service violated the Boundary Waters Canoe Area
Wilderness Act by permitting snowmobiles on South Fowl Lake and by
failing to implement motorboat quotas on North and South Fowl Lakes in
violation of Section 4(f) of the Act are time-barred by the applicable six-
year statute of limitations, as the claims accrued no later than April, 1980,
when the Forest Service published in the Federal Register the legal
description of the areas covered by the Act, which clearly showed the
lakes were outside the protected area; court lacked jurisdiction over the
Intervenors' appeal of the district court' order remanding the case to the
Forest Service to prepare an EIS assessing the sound impact of the
proposed snowmobile trail; court declines to review the district court's
injunction suspending work on the trial pending completion of the EIS.