NEPA Cases
03/05/2008
We are teaming with heavy-weight San Francisco law firm Keker & Van Nest in this litigation challenging hundreds of Forest Service grazing permit renewals on dozens of National Forests across the West. These permit renewals were done without any NEPA analysis, instead using "categorical...
12/12/2007
The Bighorn National Forest in Wyoming has only a relic population of bighorn sheep, which die when they come into contact with domestic sheep grazing on the public lands. Yet the Forest Service continues to authorize sheep grazing in bighorn habitat, and did not evaluate grazing alternatives...
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...
11/30/2007
The Granger and Carter Lease allotments encompass 720,000 acres of prime sage grouse habitat in BLM's Kemmerer Field Office of southwestern Wyoming.
BLM previously approved oil and gas drilling on the Moxa Arch project here, which has already harmed the sage-grouse population. And BLM...
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...
10/20/2004
This administrative appeal before the Office of Hearings and Appeals in the Department of Interior challenged BLM's authorization of grazing on the Squaw Valley and Spanish Ranch allotments of northern Nevada, where Barrick Goldstrike -- a major gold mining company -- has purchased several...