Staff attorney Laurie Rule has just filed an emergency motion for an injunction to stop BLM from allowing domestic sheep turnout on the Partridge Creek allotment, because of dangers posed to the last remaining native Bighorn Sheep population in the Salmon River area of central Idaho.

Our litigation previously forced the Forest Service to close several domestic sheep allotments in the surrounding Payette and Nez Perce National Forests, based on agency and independent science showing that bighorn sheep can catch fatal diseases from domestic sheep.  Yet the BLM refuses to follow the Forest Service's lead, and is allowing sheep grazing to continue on the Partridge Creek allotment.

An injunction hearing is set for 9:30 AM on October 6, 2009, in federal court in Pocatello. 

Files: 

Partridge Creek emergency injunction brief