Advocates for the West is working with concerned individuals and conservation groups to oppose plans by Exxon-Mobil, ConocoPhillips, and other Big Oil companies to turn the Lochsa River into a "heavy haul" route for massive equipment t...
This case was initially brought for Wolf Recovery Foundation and Western Watershed Project to protect Central Idaho wolves from adverse effects of livestock grazing in the Sawtooth National Recreation Area, where the Forest Service is suppo...
Greater sage-grouse are an "umbrella" species for the sagebrush ecosystem, that once covered 155 million acres of western US and Canada. Sage-grouse populations have declined steeply as sagebrush has been destroyed and fragmented by agricu...
Endangered Species Act citizen suit against Verl and Tuddie Jones for unlawful "take" of threatened bull trout through operation of their unscreened diversion on Otter Creek, located on Salmon Challis National Forest public lands.
We won an injunction prohibiting further...
Endangered Species Act citizen suit against Jim Bennetts for unlawful "take" of threatened salmon, steelhead, and bull trout associated with his unscreened public lands diversions on Herd Creek and Lake Creek (East Fork Salmon River watershed), and because of livestock damage to...
Endangered Species Act citizen suit against Judd Whitworth and Sulphur Creek Livestock for unlawful "take" of threatened bull trout through operation of unscreened public lands diversion on Mahogany Creek, tributary to upper Pahsimeroi River.
Our experts showed that the Mahogany Creek...
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...
Representing a broad coalition of national, state and local conservation groups, we brought this case in 1997 to stop Forest Service plans to log old growth forests in the Clearwater region of central Idaho -- including the headwaters of the Lochsa and North Fork Clearwater rivers. The...