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Complaint
New groups come on board to challenge Sage Grouse precluded listing!
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06/28/2010 
The Center for Biological Diversity and WildEarth Guardians have joined Western Watershed Project as our clients challenging the U.S Fish and Wildlife's decision to deny ESA protection for the Greater Sage Grouse.
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EPA has failed to protect Idaho's Water
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04/26/2010 
Advocates Sues to Protect Clean Water
On behalf of our client Idaho Conservation League, Advocates for the West sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last week claiming that the EPA failed to adopt rules to protect water in Idaho from degradation.
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Sage grouse listing -- precluded finding challenged in court
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03/08/2010 
Representing our client Western Watersheds Project, we filed a complaint in Idaho federal court on Monday, March 8, 2010 to challenge the decision by US Fish and Wildlife Service that greater sage-grouse will not be listed under the Endangered Species Act -- even though the Service now admits that the science shows sage-grouse warrant ESA protection.
The Service announced this "warranted, but precluded" finding on Friday, March 5th, and it received much media attention -- including articles in newspapers across the country.
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Pygmy Rabbit at Risk
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02/08/2010 
On February 3, 2010, Advocates for the West sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over its violation of the Endangered Species Act in refusing to determine if the pygmy rabbit warrants protection under the ESA. This case is now the third time we have had to sue the Service for its continued and repeated violations of the ESA with respect to our efforts to protect the pygmy rabbit.
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Upper Salmon Litigation
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08/01/2009 THREE NEW CASES FILED TO PROTECT PAHSIMEROI AND LEMHI WATERSHEDS.
Advocates for the West filed three new cases in June and July 2009 for client Western Watersheds Project, suing the US Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management over their legal violations in managing public lands in the Pahsimeroi and Lemhi watersheds of central Idaho.
Great Basin Sage Grouse Case Filed
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03/19/2009 The case takes on several hundred grazing permits, oil and gas leases, and other management decisions that BLM also issued near the end of the Bush Administration, affecting sage-grouse in the Great Basin region of Idaho and Nevada. The Great Basin still holds one of the last remaining "core" sage grouse populations, but they are suffering from habitat losses and degradation -- which BLM's decisions only worsen. Again, BLM refused to study the harms that these decisions together will have upon the public lands and sensitive species, including sage-grouse.
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New Case Targets 18 Land Use Plans Approved in Last Months of Bush Administration
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03/19/2009 The 18 land use plans that BLM approved in the waning months of the Bush Administration determine long-term management on more than 25 million acres of key sage-grouse habitat in Idaho, Nevada, California, Utah, Wyoming and Montana. As the lawsuit explains, BLM failed to study the harmful effects of grazing plus energy development and other actions on sagebrush habitat and sage-grouse populations; and it refused to take the steps its own 2004 Sage Grouse Habitat Conservation Strategy requires to prevent further declines in this imperiled species.
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