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Conservation organization to appear as amicus curiae

PRESS RELEASE

451 McCormick Road

Coraopolis, PA 15108

(412) 262-4044
www.ruffedgrousesociety.org

November 30, 2006

For Immediate Release

Coraopolis, PA — In what can be viewed as the first step in the struggle to provide better ruffed grouse and woodcock habitat in the Superior National Forest, the United States District Court for the District of Minnesota, recently granted the Ruffed Grouse Society’s (RGS) request to appear as amicus curiae in support of the US Forest Service and US Department of Agriculture to defend against litigation against the Forest Service’s “Forest Plan”.