The Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest completed their most recent Forest Plan in 2009 (the Flathead Forest is in the early stages of their own). They got sued because the plan included an area of recommended wilderness which would be closed to mechanical recreation. The judge rejected the suit . . .
A federal judge on Monday rejected a challenge to a U.S. Forest Service plan to bar motorized and mechanized vehicles in 322,000 acres of recommended wilderness areas in the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest.
Twenty-two plaintiffs sued the Forest Service over its 2009 plan to ban the use of snowmobiles, off-road vehicles and mountain bikes in certain parts of the southwestern Montana forest until Congress decides whether they should become permanent wilderness areas.