091639P.pdf   10/18/2010  Sierra Club  v.  Abigail Kimbell
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  09-1639
   U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota - Minneapolis   
   [PUBLISHED] [Colloton, Author, with Loken, Chief Judge, and
   Gruender, Circuit Judge]
   Civil case - Environmental law. In suit claiming the U.S. Forest Service
   had failed to consider the impact its Land and Resource Management
   Plan for the Superior National Forest would have the Boundary Waters
   Canoe Area Wilderness, the district court did not err in finding that the
   Service's assessment of the plan's environmental impacts did not violate
   the National Environmental Policy Act; Sierra Club had standing to
   challenge the plan as the Forest Service's selection of a particular plan
   had immediate, concrete consequences for the recreation interests of
   specific visitors to the Superior National Forest; considered together, the
   agency's clear intention to act with neutrality towards the Boundary
   Waters Canoe Area Wilderness, the evaluation of specific impacts to the
   area, including certain "edge effects," and the inclusion of the Boundary
   Waters area within broader environmental analyses show that the Forest
   Service took the "hard look" required by the National Environmental
   Policy Act.