9. Six conservation organizations led a petition in Thurston County Superior Court: asking that court to hold, pursuant to a provision in the Administrative Procedures Act (AR-'31), that the Washington Forest Practices Board, the Washington Department of Ecology, and the Washington Department of Natural Resources {agencies} "iled to promulgate forest practice rules that advanced the environmental protection purposes and policies of the Forest Practices Act of lQT4-" The agencies countered by arguing that a formal petition for rule making must precede anv petition for judicial review. Must an interest group exhaust administrative remedies before suing in a state or federal court? my or why not? 4