Redband Trout Cases

11/22/2008
The 70,000-acre Nickel Creek allotment has the most riparian habitat of any allotment in BLM's Owyhee Resource Area of southwestern Idaho.  BLM's 1997 grazing permit for the Nickel Creek allotment was held unlawful in the IWP v. Hahn litigation.  BLM determined in 2001 that...
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...
03/15/2001
Over several years we have brought various administrative appeals and court cases seeking to force BLM to protect sage-grouse, redband trout and other sensitive resources from livestock grazing damage in the Bully Creek area of eastern Oregon.  BLM adopted and promised to follow an...