Tag: Western Watershed Projects

Court: Feds Failed to Fully Assess Risks of Killing Thousands of Animals a Year in Idaho

Source: Western Watersheds Project “USDA’s Wildlife Services should have more carefully considered its proposed predator-killing activities’ impacts on the environment…” BOISE, Idaho— In a powerful rebuke, a federal judge ruled U.S. agency that kills thousands of animals a year in Idaho failed to adequately analyze the environmental risks of shooting, […]

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Supreme Court Overturns BLM Grazing Regulations

WASHINGTON, (Western Watersheds Project) – Today the United States Supreme Court denied consideration of an appeal by the Public Lands Council of prior federal court decisions overturning Bureau of land Management grazing regulations promulgated during the George W. Bush administration. The decision affects over 160,000,000 acres of public land in eleven western states.

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BLM/El Paso Corp’s Controversial Ruby Pipeline Project Hits a Snag

Houston, TX – (SFTHH) To the delight of environmentalists and wild horse advocates the construction of the $3 billion Ruby Pipeline has been delayed. The pipeline is slated to run through pristine wilderness from Wyoming through northern Utah and Nevada to Oregon. The project has been the reason that wild horse advocates claim the BLM has been gutting the publicly owned northern Nevada ranges of their native, American wild horses.

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