We've received a victory in our challenge of a BLM grazing plan for the Burnt Creek allotment, located within the Pahsimeroi Valley's Burnt Creek Wilderness Study Area! This stunning area is located in the shadow of Borah Peak in the rugged Lost River Range.
On behalf of Western Watersheds Project, Advocates challenged a BLM environmental analysis and decision to reissue a 10-year grazing permit on this allotment, arguing that BLM had failed to analyze impacts of the proposed grazing and fencing on the wilderness values of the Wilderness Study Area.
The U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho agreed, overturning the decision and explaining that the "environmental analysis fails to address whether the wilderness values of the Burnt Creek WSA . . . will be impaired by (1) the BLM's decision to allow grazing on this allotment, and (2) the cumulative effects of this decision and other grazing permitted across the entire Burnt Creek WSA." The full decision is linked below.
