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Colorado Mining Association v. Dept. of Agriculture

Linked with Wyoming v. Dept. of Agriculture (11-1378)
Certiorari Denied

Petition for certiorari denied on October 1, 2012.

Docket No.11-1384
Op. Below10th Cir.

Issue

Whether the Tenth Circuit erred in failing to determine that the Secretary of Agriculture"s designation of 58.5 million acres of land as Roadless was a de facto wilderness designation, which impermissibly intrudes into Congress"s exclusive authority under the Wilderness Act to permanently designate National Forest System lands as wilderness.

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