Fish Cases
02/15/2008
State court lawsuit challenging Washington Dept. of Fish and Wildlife's agreement with ranchers to open state wildlife refuges to livestock grazing; plus challenges to various grazing leases given by WDFW on state wildlife refuges. These include areas vital to the last...
03/01/2007
We represent conservationist water right holders in the Snake River Basin Adjudication, who are objecting to 294 water right claims for "flood flows" (or "high flows") by irrigators in the Lemhi River watershed.
The Lemhi River and its tributaries are critical habitat for...
05/10/2004
We won an injunction in 2004 preventing the Clearwater National Forest from proceeding with two adjoining timber sales in the Lolo Creek watershed of central Idaho, to protect habitat of imperilled fish -- including salmon, steelhead, and bull trout.
Even though the Forest Service...
03/13/2003
In response to our victory in the SNRA wolves case, Forest Service prepared an EIS for new grazing management on North Sheep, Smiley Creek, and other allotments in the Sawtooth National Forest of central Idaho, which are home to wolves, bighorn sheep, and endangered salmon and other fish....
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...