Fish Cases

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...
12/10/2000
Endangered Species Act citizen suit against Judd Whitworth and Sulphur Creek Livestock for unlawful "take" of threatened bull trout through operation of unscreened public lands diversion on Mahogany Creek, tributary to upper Pahsimeroi River. Our experts showed that the Mahogany Creek...
11/15/1999
We represent a coalition of national and state groups -- including Wild Earth Guardians, National Audubon Society, Sierra Club, and New Mexico Audubon -- in this long-standing litigation over the impacts of the federal Middle Rio Grande water project on the endangered Rio Grande silvery minnow...
05/01/1997
Representing a broad coalition of national, state and local conservation groups, we brought this case in 1997 to stop Forest Service plans to log old growth forests in the Clearwater region of central Idaho -- including the headwaters of the Lochsa and North Fork Clearwater rivers.   The...