Montana 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...
10/03/2011
Advocates for the West recently sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over its refusal to protect the pygmy rabbit as an threatened or endangered species under the Endangered Species Act. The pygmy rabbit is a native rabbit once found throughout the Great Basin, in recent years rabbit populations...
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...
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...
07/14/2006
Greater sage-grouse are an "umbrella" species for the sagebrush ecosystem, that once covered 155 million acres of western US and Canada. Sage-grouse populations have declined steeply as sagebrush has been destroyed and fragmented by agricultural conversions, livestock grazing, energy...
03/09/2006
ESA listing case, challenging US Fish and Wildlife Service's "90-day finding" rejecting WWP's listing petition for pygmy rabbit -- the word's tiniest bunny.
Pygmy rabbits dig burrows under sagebrush; climb up in sagebrush to scout and feed; and otherwise depend...
