Public Lands

This case challenges the failure of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Forest Service to comply with the Endangered Species Act in approving commencement of the Rock Creek Mine project, a major industrial copper and silver mine proposed in the unspoiled Cabinet Mountains of northwest Montana.

A letter sent by Earthjustice, on behalf of Defenders of Wildlife, the National Wildlife Refuge Association, and the Sierra Club, urging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to promptly issue a feeding phase-out plan that was promised by the agency in 2008, but has been held up for more than 10 years due to wrangling between federal and Wyoming officials.