President Clinton designated the 500,000-acre Sonoran Desert National Monument in 2001 to protect its outstanding wildlife, plant and other natural resources.  The Monument proclamation ordered BLM to halt livestock grazing on part of the Monument, and to study whether grazing would be compatible with the Monument purposes on the remainder.   Yet eight years later, BLM still has not made that compatability determination -- yet it still authorizes livestock grazing that independent scientists have shown to be harming wildlife, plants and soils.

This case challenges BLM's failure to prepare the required determination, and its continued authorization of livestock grazing that is incompatable with the Sonoran Monument purposes.  

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Sonoran Monument complaint