FLPMA Cases
10/25/2010
The Mono Basin Sage-Grouse isn't like other sage-grouse. He struts on leks the same way sage-grouse accross 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...
07/21/2010
This case challenges a Bureau of Land Management (BLM) decision to roundup and remove nearly all of the wild free-roaming horses within three horse areas in northeastern Nevada. BLM claims that it needs to remove these horses because they are overgrazing the public lands, although BLM's own...
04/07/2010
The Green Mountain Common allotment is one of the largest unfenced areas of BLM land in the lower 48 states. Located in central Wyoming, the allotment encompasses over 500,000 acres, 80% of which has been designated as a Core Area for the greater sage-grouse by the State of...
01/23/2009
This large case challenges several hundred grazing permits, oil and gas leases, and other land management decisions approved by BLM during the last years of the Bush Administration, which individually and together harm the Great Basin core population of greater sage-grouse in Idaho and Nevada...
11/22/2008
The 70,000-acre Nickel Creek allotment has the most riparian habitat of any allotment in BLM's Owyhee Resource Area of southwestern Idaho. BLM's 1997 grazing permit for the Nickel Creek allotment was held unlawful in the IWP v. Hahn litigation. BLM determined in 2001 that...
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...
