Adverse decision in California gray wolf listing challenge

January 29, 2019

Yesterday we received an adverse decision from the San Diego Superior Court in California Cattlemen’s Association v. California Fish & Game Commission, our challenge to the Commission’s decision to list the gray wolf under the California Endangered Species Act. Our lawsuit raised three arguments against the listing, which the Depar ...

New brief: PLF challenges gray wolf ‘endangered’ listing in California

December 18, 2018

A single sighting of a wolf that had crossed over into California from Oregon—that’s all it took for Golden State bureaucrats to declare the gray wolf as a protected species under the state’s Endangered Species Act (ESA). That ill-fated decision has significant implications for farmers, ranchers and other property owners in California ...

Opening brief filed in gray wolf listing challenge

August 06, 2018

Today we filed our opening brief in our challenge, on behalf of the California Cattlemen’s Association and the California Farm Bureau Federation, to the listing of the gray wolf under the California Endangered Species Act. We make three basic arguments. First, the listing violates the Act’s limitation to native flora and fauna, because ...

PLF Challenges “Endangered” Listing of Gray Wolf

February 22, 2017

The California Fish and Game Commission has neglected sound scientific analysis, undermined sensible wildlife protections and violated state law. … ...

PLF, farmers, and ranchers challenge state’s ‘endangered’ listing of gray wolf

January 31, 2017

SACRAMENTO, CA;  January 31, 2017:  The California Fish and Game Commission has neglected sound scientific analysis, undermined sensible wildlife protections — and violated state law — by unjustifiably adding the gray wolf to the state’s list of “endangered” species. So argues a lawsuit filed today by Pacific Legal Foundatio ...

Challenge to California’s gray wolf listing

January 31, 2017

We commenced our challenge to the California Fish and Game Commission’s listing of the gray wolf under the state’s Endangered Species Act. … ...

Ranchers challenge ‘endangered’ listing of gray wolf

January 30, 2017

The listing of the California Gray Wolf as an endangered species has caused ranchers throughout the state concerned of the damage caused by wolves. … ...

Mexican Wolf releases challenged

October 31, 2016

For more than 18 years, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has released captive-bred Mexican gray wolves into the wilds of New Mexico.  These wolves are deemed “nonessential” populations because they are not critical to the survival of the species as a whole.  But they are critical to the survival of other species on which … ...

Gray wolf protections spell trouble for ranchers

January 05, 2016

Last month’s decision by the California Fish & Game Commission to protect the gray wolf under the California Endangered Species Act raises significant legal and policy questions. … ...

California ranchers concerned about the gray wolf

December 30, 2015

Last week, The Sacramento Bee reported on the concerns of ranchers in Northern California’s Siskiyou County about how to deal with the influx of the gray wolf into the state … ...