Western Environmental Law Center: Lawsuit - U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Ignored Court Order on Southern Rockies Lynx Critical Habitat
July 03, 2020
July 03, 2020
EUGENE, Oregon, July 3 -- The Western Environmental Law Center issued the following news release on July 2:
Late yesterday, wildlife advocates filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (the Service) over its failure to take any action in response to a 2016 court order striking down the agency's exclusion of Canada lynx habitat in the species' entire southern Rocky Mountain range from designation as critical habitat. This habitat is essential for the wildcat's recove . . .
Late yesterday, wildlife advocates filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (the Service) over its failure to take any action in response to a 2016 court order striking down the agency's exclusion of Canada lynx habitat in the species' entire southern Rocky Mountain range from designation as critical habitat. This habitat is essential for the wildcat's recove . . .