Court Hearing

If you are in Boise next Monday, January 30, come watch Advocates for the West attorney Todd Tucci in action. He'll be using his legal expertise to protect the Great Basin population of Greater sage-grouse. Judge Winmill will preside. Kristin Ruether will provide co-counsel.

We are pleased to represent Western Watersheds Project.

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Kristin Ruether will be arguing a Clean Water Act case against Atlanta Gold Corp. to protect the headwaters of the Boise River from arsenic and iron pollution. We are representing Idaho Conservation League and Northwest Environmental Defense Center. Read more...

You can follow the Highway 12 Mega-Loads hearing on Spokesman Review reporter, Betsy Russell's, Blog "Eye on Boise". http://www.spokesman.com/blogs/boise/

In the second round of this case, Plaintiffs Wolf Recovery Foundation and Western Watersheds Project challenged APHIS Wildlife Services for failing to conduct any environmental analysis of the impacts of its wolf control actions.  Wildlife Services kills many wolves each year in the state of Idaho that are believed to have attacked livestock.  These wolf killings often remove many wolves from the same pack or sometimes entire packs.  Yet the agency has never taken a hard look at the impacts of these wolf killings, in violation of the National Environmental Policy Act.  P

Files: 

Plaintiffs' summary judgment opening brief

Plaintiff's summary judgment reply brief

Advocates for the West just completed the "contested case" hearing over Conoco mega-shipments up Highway 12 in central Idaho.  The hearing was packed with media and interested persons -- and demonstrated numerous problems with the ITD permit process.  Spokane reporter Betsy Russell was there and blogged about the events throughout the hearing -- her reports give a great sense of the testimony and the hearing.  READ BETSY RUSSELL'S BLOG HERE.

Files: 

Eye_on_Boise.pdf

Lewiston Morning Tribune editorial

Staff attorney Laurie Rule has just filed an emergency motion for an injunction to stop BLM from allowing domestic sheep turnout on the Partridge Creek allotment, because of dangers posed to the last remaining native Bighorn Sheep population in the Salmon River area of central Idaho.

Files: 

Partridge Creek emergency injunction brief