Last year, a Pacific Legal Foundation lawsuit led to a long overdue proposal from the Fish and Wildlife Service to delist the Valley elderberry longhorn beetle from the Endangered Species Act. Yesterday, the Service announced that it was extending the … Continue reading
Yesterday, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) announced its intent to downlist the wood stork from endangered to threatened. This comes after years of arm-twisting by PLF and its client, the Florida Homebuilders Association (FHA), to get the Service … Continue reading
In a long overdue and welcome development, the US Fish and Wildlife Service has finally proposed to delist the beetle from the Endangered Species Act. This finding is a direct result of the lawsuit that PLF filed on behalf of … Continue reading
Author: Damien M. Schiff As part of an unfortunate pattern, the US Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed an expanded critical habitat designation, under the Endangered Species Act, for the western snowy plover, a small coastal bird. In 1999, the Service … Continue reading
Author: Damien M. Schiff One of the most litigated-over species in the Southwest has been the flat-tailed horned lizard. First noted as a species at risk by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service in the early 1980s, the species was … Continue reading
Author: Damien M. Schiff Today the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service issued a final critical habitat designation for the polar bear. The designation covers over 180,000 square miles. Yet the Service estimates that the economic impact of the designation, over … Continue reading
Author: Daniel Himebaugh Today we learned that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service–the agency in charge of administering the Endangered Species Act–will be initiating status review of four species listed as endangered or threatened in Washington State: the northern spotted … Continue reading