Tag: lawsuit

February 5, 2020

Wolverine listing delay leading to lawsuit

Ten environmental organizations, including Defenders of Wildlife and the Center for Biological Diversity, intend to suethe U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to compel the agency to list wolverines (Gulo gulo)under the...

September 4, 2019

Several groups challenge new ESA rules

Several groups have joined forces to challenge the recent changes to Endangered Species Act implementation recently finalized by the administration, arguing the new regulations violate the ESA, the National Environmental...

March 20, 2018

Environmental group sues over walrus ESA decision

The Center for Biological Diversity has filed a lawsuit in federal District Court for the District of Alaska, challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to withdraw the Pacific...

April 27, 2017

Predator control at the center of legal actions

In Dec. 2016, the Colorado Parks and Wildlife Commission (CPW) approved two predator management plans in the state – the Piceance Basin Predator Management Plan and Upper Arkansas River Predator...

February 6, 2017

Lawsuit filed over agricultural water use in Klamath refuges

On Jan. 17, the Audubon Society of Portland, WaterWatch of Oregon, and Oregon Wild filed a lawsuit in a U.S. District Court challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s newly...

January 26, 2017

Alaska challenges federal hunting rules in court

On Jan. 13, the State of Alaska filed a lawsuit to challenge new federal rules banning several methods of hunting on national wildlife refuges and national preserves located within the...

December 14, 2016

Lawsuit halts changes to big game habitat management

Following litigation by a coalition of wildlife and sportsmens groups, the U.S. Forest Service has dropped changes to a decades-long big game habitat management strategy in a national forest in...

December 9, 2016

States file suit over new critical habitat rules

On Nov. 29, a group of 18 states filed a lawsuit in opposition to changes made this year to how critical habitat can be designated for federally threatened and endangered...