Before the Court are Plaintiffs‘ Motion for Summary Judgment, ECF No. 54, Federal Defendants‘ Cross Motion for Summary Judgment, ECF No. 57, and Defendant Intervenors‘ Cross Motion for Summary Judgment, ECF No. 59. For the reasons set forth below, the Court denies Defendants‘ and Intervenors‘ motions, and denies in part and grants in part Plaintiffs‘ motion.
A federal judge overturns an April 2014 decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service denying endangered species protection to coastal martens. The court’s action is in response to a lawsuit filed by Earthjustice on behalf of the Center for Biological Diversity and Environmental Protection Information Center.
Dr. Mourad Gabriel has spent more than a decade fighting to save rare forest carnivores like the coastal marten, and along the way he’s stumbled on unexpected challenges facing these animals, including illegal marijuana cultivation on California’s public lands.
Represented by Earthjustice, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Environmental Protection Information Center are suing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for failing to protect the coastal marten under the Endangered Species Act. The two conservation groups first petitioned for protection for the coastal marten, sometimes known as the Humboldt marten, in 2010. The…
In The United States District Court For The Northern District Of California, San Francisco Division. Challenging failure to protect the coastal marten under the Endangered Species Act.
