These same groups were behind the closure of over 90 OHV trails throughout the county last year:
http://www.mtdemocrat.com/news/county-takes-formal-stand-against-usfs-road-closures/

Guess what, they sued the USFS, the roads were closed, and then we paid the legal fees accrued by the groups who filed the suits, as well as the legal fees for the USFS.
These groups & their Lawyers are laughing all the way to the bank.
My friends & I practice “Tread Lightly” principals. We volunteer 100s of hours a year working in the forrest, helping to maintain the trails & the environment. I wonder how much time the 6 people I mention above do that? (All of which make more money than I do…. One of which is a Secretary, while I’m a teacher).

Nine national environmental activist groups alone have filed more than 3,300 suits, every single one seeking attorney fees. The groups have also charged as much as $650 per hour (a federal statutory cap usually limits attorney fees to $125 per hour).

In well over half of the cases, there was no court judgment in the environmental groups’ favor. In all cases, whether there was any possible environmental benefit from the litigation is highly questionable. Most cases were simply based upon an alleged failure to comply with a deadline or to follow a procedure.

Examining court records in 19 states and in the District of Columbia, the total amount paid to less than a dozen environmental groups exceeded $37 million.

n 2009, the Earthjustice Legal Foundation represented the Defenders of Wildlife, the Sierra Club, the Wilderness Society, and the Vermont Natural Resources Council in a case dealing with the process used by the Forest Service to adopt some regulations. The Earthjustice Legal Foundation filed for attorney fees for that single case that took only one year and three months to complete.

The same suit was filed by the Western Environmental Law Center on behalf of other environmental groups. The seven total attorneys who worked on the case billed the federal government $479,242. They charged between $300 to $650 per hour, far above the statuary federal cap of $125. The case was resolved at the district court level and the federal government did not appeal.

The Center for Biological Diversity (CBD) also files a significant amount of litigation and receives lucrative attorney fees. In Washington State Federal District Court alone, CBD received attorney fees totaling $941,000 for only six cases. In the District of Columbia, it received more than $1 million in fees.