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Monday ESA news

December 01, 2008 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

The last couple of days have seen some interesting ESA-related news items. Of note: An editorial in Sunday's Casper Star-Tribune argues that, in response to a federal court order to reinstate Endangered Species Act protections for the northern rocky mountain gray wolf, Wyoming should revise its own wolf management policy, rather than continue t ...

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Poletown anniversary

December 01, 2008 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

The Michigan State Bar will be comemmorating the anniversary of the infamous 1981 Poletown decision tomorrow by dedicating a plaque at the Polish National Alliance Council building in Hamtramck. Speakers will include our friend Alan Ackerman, the attorney who successfully argued for the overturning of that decision in the 2005 case of Wayne County ...

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Transition for Green : The Environmental Community's legislative manifesto

December 02, 2008 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Just released last week, "Transition for Green" represents the policy thoughts of some two-dozen plus environmental groups hoping to influence the Obama Administration's environmental regulatory suite.  The AP reports here. … ...

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Victory in Burke v. California Coastal Commission

December 02, 2008 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Today, the California Court of Appeal held, in a published opinion, that the California Coastal Commission lacked jurisdiction to deny a permit for a bluff boundary and safety fence erected long ago at the bottom of the bluffs at Torrance Beach. The fence was originally built at the base of the bluffs after several people … ...

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"Last Frontier is battleground for Endangered Species Act"

December 03, 2008 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

From The Tundra Drums, an Alaskan publication: At the Resource Development Council’s annual conference in Anchorage, Denby Lloyd, commissioner of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, projected a large map of the state on an overhead screen. One at a time, swathes of red marking the habitat of Cook Inlet beluga whales, Steller’s sea ...

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new Sacramento-San Joaquin delta lawsuit

December 03, 2008 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Readers of this blog may be aware of some of the Endangered Species Act issues revolving around management of the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta. See, for instance, PLF on ESA's post last month on the delta smelt litigation. Now comes word, via LA Times' Greenspace, that even more litigation will further threaten the ability of farmers ...

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Positive 90-day finding on Prairie Dog Petition

December 03, 2008 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Announced by the Service yesterday (federal register finding not yet available).  See the Rocky Mountain News article here. … ...

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District of Maine Canada lynx litigation

December 05, 2008 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

U.S. District Judge Woodcock issued an interesting decision last week in the Canada lynx litigation.  The decision is available here.  Among other things, Maine claimed that it should not be required to impose further restrictions on wild animal trapping because, according to Maine, under "the tort concept of proximate cause ...

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polar bear litigation update

December 05, 2008 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

The various lawsuits concerning the polar bear listing have been consolidated and will now be before District of Columbia Judge Emmet G. Sullivan.  The Endangered Species & Wetlands Report has the transfer order here. … ...