New Mexico 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...
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...
07/12/2005
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...
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...