The Center for Biological Diversity filed a complaint asking the court to halt implementation of the Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management’s Grazing Action Plan and associated MOU.
The American Prairie Foundation bison grazing dispute on public federal lands has moved into federal district court. This week, both American Prairie and the Western Watersheds Project filed lawsuits against the U.S. Department of Interior and the Bureau of Land Management in the United States District Court for the State of Montana.
Opinion:Â The Alliance for the Wild Rockies has taken the Park Service to court to require it to use the best available science and stop the pointless slaughter of our national mammal.
Seven long years ago the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, with the support of local residents, took the Forest Service to federal court to halt the Hanna Flats logging, road-building, and burning project on the Idaho Panhandle National Forest in northern Idaho. Through a long and winding legal saga the good news — for grizzly bears, old-growth forests, and the local populace which strongly opposed the deforestation — is that a federal appeals court just ruled for the Alliance.
Public lands are a part of our identity. We rely on them for adventure, exercise, peace of mind, and to feed our families with subsistence hunting. But recent events make clear that those in power would rather see those lands handed over to private entities.
Opinion:Â The Alliance for the Wild Rockies has taken the Park Service to court to require it to use the best available science and stop the pointless slaughter of our national mammal.