VICTORY FOR BIGHORN SHEEP!
Appeals Court Affirms Forest Service Closures that Protect Bighorn from Domestic Livestock Boise, IDAHO – The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals today affirmed the Payette National Forest’s decision to...
View ArticleConservation Groups Win Reprieve from Sheep Grazing on Government Lands
Boise, IDAHO – Conservation groups voluntarily dismissed their lawsuit against high-elevation domestic sheep grazing in the “Summer West Range of Centennial Mountains because the government has agreed...
View ArticleLawsuit Filed to Stop New Livestock Fencing in Sage-Grouse Habitat
Boise, IDAHO – Today, Western Watersheds Project filed a lawsuit against the Bureau of Land Management in Nevada over its approval of new fences in important sage-grouse habitat on the Argenta...
View ArticleTwo More Years of Trespass: Bundy’s Cows Still Trampling Tortoise Habitat
Reseda, CALIFORNIA – Hundreds of cattle are still on the loose two years to the day after the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) began rounding up Cliven Bundy’s cattle in the Gold Butte area of southern...
View ArticleWyoming Data Censorship Laws Are Still Illegal
Conservationists say statute remains unlawful despite revisions Cheyenne, Wyoming– Yesterday, a coalition of public interest advocacy organizations again challenged the unlawful parts of Wyoming’s...
View ArticleGovernment Urged to Round Up Bundy’s Cattle
Ongoing harm to Mojave desert tortoise is unacceptable Hailey, IDAHO –A coalition of conservation organizations today pressed the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to stop Cliven Bundy’s cattle from...
View ArticleConservation Groups Challenge Idaho Wolf-killing
USDA’s Wildlife Services Has Killed Hundreds of Idaho Wolves BOISE, Idaho— Five conservation groups filed a lawsuit in federal court today challenging the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife...
View ArticleGroups File Notice of Intent to Sue USFWS and for Failure to Give Yellowstone...
Today, Western Watersheds Project, Buffalo Field Campaign (BFC) and, Friends of Animals (FoA) took the first step to sue the Dept. of the Interior and U.S. Fish & Wildlife (USFWS) for failing to...
View ArticleAgencies Fail to Identify, Track, Penalize, or Deter Unauthorized Livestock...
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) released a report last week detailing the extent to which the United States Forest Service (USFS) and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) have failed to...
View ArticleFrivolous Wyoming Trespass Lawsuit Finally Dropped!
Hailey, IDAHO – Over two years after alleging that Western Watersheds Project trespassed on private property in order to collect water quality data on public lands, Wyoming ranchers dropped their...
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