Sensitive Species Cases
09/28/2009
This case challenges BLM decisions allowing grazing and construction of numerous livestock watering troughs and fences in the Grouse Creek, Meadow Creek, Trail Creek, and Rock Creek allotments, located in the Pahsimeroi watershed of central Idaho.
This area is prime sage grouse habitat,...
01/23/2009
This large case challenges several hundred grazing permits, oil and gas leases, and other land management decisions approved by BLM during the last years of the Bush Administration, which individually and together harm the Great Basin core population of greater sage-grouse in Idaho and Nevada...
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...
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...
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...
03/30/2007
We brought this case in March 2007 to prevent the Forest Service from authorizing domestic sheep grazing in allotments on Payette and Nez Perce National Forests that pose a "high risk" of spreading diseases that kill Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep, which are native to the Hells Canyon and...