PORTLAND, Ore. — A federal lawsuit related to the shooting of rancher Robert LaVoy Finicum has been dismissed. Oregon Public Broadcasting reports the civil suit was filed in U.S. District Court of Oregon by Ryan Payne, Shawna Cox and others who were associated with the Bundy family’s 2016 occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. They claimed that FBI agents, Oregon State Police and …
A revised U.S. Army Corps of Engineers water plan for the Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin is being challenged by environmental groups that say the Sunshine State is again being cheated out of its fair share of the river system’s flow. Earthjustice on Thursday filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of the National Wildlife Federation, Florida Wildlife Federation and the Apalachicola Riverkeeper claiming the Army Corps failed to …
Multiple irrigators claim the federal government’s plans for two Klamath-area national wildlife refuges unlawfully restrict farmed acres and agricultural practices. In the final days of the Obama administration, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued plans for managing several refuges in the Klamath basin over the next 15 years.
Four conservation groups have sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for not listing the Pacific fisher, a small, weasel-like predator, as a threatened species. The lawsuit alleges the agency failed to consider the best scientific evidence when it decided not to provide the fisher protections under the Endangered …
The Humane Society of the United States Center for Biological Diversity Animal protection and conservation groups filed a lawsuit today challenging the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission’s illegal, fast-tracked adoption of grizzly bear hunting regulations that open the door for trophy hunting once the …
An environmentalist group has reached a tentative settlement with the USDA in a lawsuit accusing the agency’s predator control efforts of violating federal law. Attorneys for USDA and Wildearth Guardians, an environmental non-profit, have notified the judge overseeing the case that they’ve struck a deal “in principle, subject to approval by the appropriate government officials.” The notice …
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has not done the environmental analysis required by law before sponsoring legislation to turn the National Bison Range over to local tribes, according to a federal lawsuit filed today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER). The suit aims to force FWS to ascertain potential impacts before proceeding any further with the first …