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accessfund
Dec 5, 2005, 8:43 PM
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In mid-August the Access Fund filed its latest legal brief in its on-going attempt to keep climbing open at Cave Rock, NV. Last January at the district court level in Reno we lost the first round of our Cave Rock lawsuit, but this past spring the AF Board voted to pursue an appeal to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The US Forest Service (USFS) declined to pursue mediation despite the AF's hope that the conflict may be resolved out of the courtroom.
In the meantime the Access Fund succeeded (partially) on our Motion for Stay asking the judge to prevent the USFS from banning climbing and pulling the bolts at Cave Rock pending our appeal. The district judge in Reno granted the portion of our motion asking that the USFS be prevented from removing any bolts at Cave Rock; however, the climbing ban remains in place pending the lawsuit. Briefing at the 9th Circuit will be completed sometime this fall/winter after which that court will determine when oral arguments will be scheduled.
Rumor has it that climbers have recently been climbing at Cave Rock, perhaps because there's no sign posting the climbing closure (although the sign notifying climbers of the bolting ban is still in place). It's critical that climbers continue to respect the climbing closure at Cave Rock while we work our way through the courts -- it's currently illegal to climb there and doing so will only give the government attorneys ammunition to label climbers as irreverent fun hogs.
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daveschuller
Dec 12, 2005, 10:45 PM
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