Forest Service and Fish and Wildlife Service did not lawfully examine impacts to species

Press release by the Mother Kuskokwim Tribal Coalition: Alaska’s delegation sides with industry over Tribal requests, salmon in filing an amicus brief in support of the mine

A Montana District Court ruling found that significant new roadbuilding projects in the Flathead National Forest will negatively impact Endangered Species Act-listed grizzly bears and bull trout. The court found that the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service did not lawfully examine the impacts to these species when the agencies greenlit the roadbuilding plan in 2018.

Tim Preso, Managing Attorney, Biodiversity Defense Program: “The science showing that roads continue to displace bears goes all the way back to (1995) and hasn’t changed. The problem is they’ve never applied that science to look at what is the consequence of having all that road network out there in terms of the displacement effect…

Toxic “forever chemicals” remain laxly regulated.

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Sam Sankar, Senior Vice President of Programs: “This is the most right-wing court we’ve seen in almost a century, and that’s emboldening conservative legal activists to swing for the fences with legal claims that would have been laughable just a few years ago. The legal landscape has shifted, and it’s profound.”

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Kristen Boyles, Managing Attorney, Northwest Office: “It’s been many years now of litigation, fighting to protect this remarkable place, and phew, we’re done. The monument and its expansion, it’s now the law of the land. People should go visit this summer. It’s a beautiful place.”

New statewide building codes incentivizing heat pumps will take effect in mid-March

Fish and Wildlife Service’s biological opinion failed to consider full impacts of road development and use

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Plan would have allowed road building in forest without protections for at-risk species

A federal court ruled that the Bureau of Land Management’s decision to lease nearly 120,000 acres of federal land for oil and gas development in June 2022 violated the law.

A summary judgment ruling in Idaho District Court will prevent the state of Idaho from authorizing wolf trapping and snaring in grizzly bear habitat during non-denning periods.

Friends of the Wild Swan and Swan View Coalition filed suit in U.S. District Court in Montana targeting a 2018 U.S. Forest Service plan that allows for significant new roadbuilding in the Flathead National Forest.

Latest plan for Flathead National Forest violates Endangered Species Act and National Environmental Policy Act

Legal intervention seeks to retain forest protections that support Tribes, communities, and sustainable local economies