Greater Sage Grouse Cases
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...
04/07/2010
The Green Mountain Common allotment is located in central Wyoming and encompasses over 500,000 acres. It is one of the largest unfenced areas in the lower 48 states and provides valuable habitat for the greater sage-grouse.
In 1999, BLM determined that livestock grazing practices violated...
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,...
09/28/2009
The Burnt Creek allotment is located in the Upper Pahsimeroi watershed, which is occupied by bull trout and sage grouse; and extends over much of the Burnt Creek Wilderness Study Area.
Our prior litigation in 2002-03 forced BLM to close the allotment to grazing for 4 years, although...
01/26/2009
Opening summary judgment brief filed June 25, 2010 in the Sawtooth--North Sheep case alleges that the Forest Service failed to take a "hard look" at sheep grazing impacts on several Sawtooth National Forest allotments, particularly on sensitive wildlife including fish and sage grouse....
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...