California Cases
11/29/2011
On behalf of Winter Wildlands Alliance, Advocates for the West has brought a case against the U.S. Forest Service for not managing and regulating snowmobiles as it does other off-road vehicles. In 2005, the Forest Service issued a new rule that requires every National Forest to designate what...
11/03/2011
Advocates for the West is representing Snowlands Network, Winter Wildlands Alliance and Center for Biological Diversity in a case regarding better management of snowmobile use on National Forest land in California. Snowmobiles create air pollution through emissions that far surpass...
10/25/2010
The Mono Basin sage-grouse isn't like other sage-grouse. He struts on leks the same way sage-grouse across the West have been doing for millenia, but the Mono Basin sage-grouse has unique genetic material that makes him uniquely important to the preservation of the species...
12/17/2008
One of the largest environmental cases ever filed, this litigation challenges 18 land use plans -- called Resource Management Plans (RMPs) -- issued in the last years of the Bush Administration, which will determine BLM's long-term management of more than 34 million acres of public lands across the...
03/05/2008
We are teaming with heavy-weight San Francisco law firm Keker & Van Nest in this litigation challenging hundreds of Forest Service grazing permit renewals on dozens of National Forests across the West. These permit renewals were done without any NEPA analysis, instead using "categorical...
12/11/2007
This case challenges the Bush Administration's August 2007 adoption of new policies allowing BLM to use Categorical Exclusions (CEs) to avoid doing environmental reviews under NEPA of grazing permit renewals and vegetation treatments across the West. BLM would use the CEs to avoid telling the...
