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Land Use

The interdisciplinary process of evaluating, organising, and controlling the present and the future development and use of lands and their resources which seek to order and regulate land use in an efficient and ethical way in terms of their suitability on sustained yield basis. This process Includes an overall ecological evaluation in terms of specific kinds of uses, as well as evaluations of social, economic, and physical contexts to the land concerned. (Source: GEMET/UNUN/edited by MMA)

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HOME BUILDERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA; BUILDING INDUSTRY LEGAL DEFENSE FOUNDATION; CALIFORNIA BUILDING INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION; CALIFORNIA STATE GRANGE; GREENHORN GRANGE, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. UNITED STATES FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE; UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR; GALE A. NORTON, in her official capacity  CV-05-00629-WBS as Secretary of Interior; H. DALE HALL, in his official capacity as Director of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; MATTHEW J. HOGAN, in his official capacity as Acting Director of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Defendant-Appellees and BUTTE ENVIRONMENTAL COUNSEL; CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY; DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE,Defendants-Intervenors-Appellees.

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