Oregon Cases
04/05/2012
On behalf of the Oregon Natural Desert Association and the Audubon Society of Portland, Advocates for the West has challenged the BLM's approval of a lengthy transmission line across southeastern Oregon's Steens Mountain, one of the jewels of the West. The North Steens transmission line would...
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...
10/04/2010
This case challenges the Forest Service's authorization of grazing on the Antelope Cattle and Horse allotment of Oregon's Fremont-Winema National Forests thereby violating the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”) and the National Forest Management Act (“NFMA”).
A...
07/15/2010
The Ruby pipeline is a project of El Paso Pipeline Corp., the country's largest pipeline company, which will cover 650 miles from southwestern Wyoming to southern Oregon. The Ruby pipeline will carry 1.5 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day, providing a coal substitute for utilities on...
05/13/2008
This case challenges BLM's recent decision to continue allowing excessive livestock grazing on 237,000 acres of public lands in the North Fork Malheur watershed of eastern Oregon.
BLM admits that grazing has harmed sage grouse, fish, and native plants; but rather than address the cause...
