After gaining significant protections for bighorn sheep on the Payette National Forest due to Advocates for the West's prior litigation...
Update on the Fight to Protect the Mono Basin Sage-Grouse
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12/07/2011 Advocates for the West, and our clients Western Watersheds Project and WildEarth Guardians, are one step closer to improving protections for the Mono-Basin Sage-Grouse, a genetically unique population of the imperiled greater sage-grouse.
On December 7, 2011, we filed our opening brief in a lawsuit that challenges BLM's decision to reauthorize livestock grazing during the summer nesting and brood-rearing season in some of the most important breeding habitat in the Mono Basin. This opening brief will be one of several briefs that Judge Mueller of the Eastern District of California reviews before deciding the case. Judge Mueller will hear oral argument on March 14, 2012 in Sacramento.
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