ESA Cases
08/17/2005
Mountain caribou are found in the US only in the Selkirk Mountains of northern Idaho and Washington, and are among the most critically endangered mammals in the lower 48 states. The caribou feed on lichen in old growth forests to survive the winter, and are easily startled by motorized...
07/12/2005
Challenge to BLM’s 2006 grazing regulations as violating the National Environmental Policy Act, Endangered Species Act, and other federal laws. BLM adopted the 2006 regulations to give the livestock industry more ownership and control over public lands resources, while excluding the public...
11/10/2002
The 330,00-acre Soldier Meadows allotment lies adjacent to the Black Rock Desert in northern Nevada; and includes parts of the recently-designated Black Rock wilderness and other new wilderness areas.
Soldier Meadows also has numerous springs and streams occupied by endangered fish...
07/31/2001
The US Forest Service and BLM each authorize dozens of irrigation diversions on public lands in the Upper Salmon basin of Idaho, which is critical habitat for threatened salmon, steelhead and bull trout. These public lands diversions often are crude devices, lacking fish screens; and...
12/10/2000
Endangered Species Act citizen suit against Verl and Tuddie Jones for unlawful "take" of threatened bull trout through operation of their unscreened diversion on Otter Creek, located on Salmon Challis National Forest public lands.
We won an injunction prohibiting further...
12/10/2000
Endangered Species Act citizen suit against Jim Bennetts for unlawful "take" of threatened salmon, steelhead, and bull trout associated with his unscreened public lands diversions on Herd Creek and Lake Creek (East Fork Salmon River watershed), and because of livestock damage to...