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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Siler finds that the district court properly entered summary judgment in favor of the U.S. Forest Service in an action challenging the Service’s approval of the "Three Creeks Project." The project sought to address issues in the Inyo National Forest which has been subject to sweeping changes due to decades of logging, fire suppression, and drought. Those issues left the forest dense with thin, immature trees which created conditions likely to cause forest fires, bark-beetle infestations and fungal infections. Environmental groups contend that the Service failed to adequately supplement its National Environmental Policy Act analysis following the 2020 bark-beetle outbreak. The environmental groups have not shown that the Service’s approval of the Three Creeks Project is arbitrary, capricious or otherwise unlawful. Affirmed.