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111661P.pdf   11/16/2011  Friends of the Norbeck  v.  United States Forest Service
   U.S. Court of Appeals Case No:  11-1661
   U.S. District Court for the District of South Dakota - Rapid City   
   [PUBLISHED] [Murphy, Author, with Bye and Smith, Circuit Judges]
   Civil case - Environmental law. Plaintiffs did not exhaust their
   administrative remedies for their NEPA claim; the Record of Decision and
   the final EIS make clear that the Forest Service considered the habitat
   needs of various game animals and birds, as well as the effect of logging
   and burning activities, and the management plan it developed to limit the
   spread of mountain pine beetle while balancing the habitat needs of the
   animals and birds in the preserve was neither arbitrary nor capricious.