Proposals seek to weaken species protections on behalf of special interests

The fight against roads in Flathead National Forest reflects a broader battle to protect species biodiversity.

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.

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

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Idaho’s expanded wolf trapping likely to kill 90% of state’s gray wolf population

Idaho’s expanded wolf trapping likely to kill 90% of state’s gray wolf population

We’re also pursuing multiple other cases to protect this keystone species across the contiguous United States.

Timothy Preso, Managing Attorney, Biodiversity Defense Program: “We are creating a future for our kids and grandkids where we are leaving them a world of less wild places, less wild species, and fewer birds, fewer butterflies, fewer of all the things that we have had the benefit of living with during our lifetimes but are…

New laws propose substantial risks to federally protected Lynx, Grizzly Bears

New laws propose substantial risks to federally protected Lynx, Grizzly Bears

Las normas que permiten la caza de esas especies en estados como Idaho presentan riesgos inminentes para otras especies protegidas a nivel federal, como el lince o el oso pardo.

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

U.S. District Judge Donald Molloy agreed with the conservation groups’ challenge to these weakened plan provisions, ruling that the Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service violated the Endangered Species Act by ignoring the threat caused by continued unauthorized use of unreclaimed roads and arbitrarily abandoning a commitment to culvert removal.

New Montana trapping policies could cause collateral damage to threatened animals

New Montana trapping policies could cause collateral damage to threatened animals

Rock Creek Mine 131 opinion and order.