Ohio Forestry Association, Inc. v. Sierra Club

The National Forest Service adopted a management plan for the Wayne National Forest permitting certain amounts of logging and clearcutting, though the plan itself did not authorize any specific tree-cutting and required further agency steps, including notice and hearing, before logging could occur. The Sierra Club (plaintiff) sued the Forest Service (defendants) challenging the plan as allowing excessive logging, and the Ohio Forestry Association (defendant), representing loggers who worked in the forest, intervened as a defendant; the Supreme Court granted certiorari on the ripeness question.