NOAA Fisheries announced this week that it's beginning a 5-year status review of the Oregon Coast coho ESU. This ESU has been the focal point of much litigation over the last decade and a half. Most recently, Trout Unlimited and other environmental organizations successfully challenged the Service's decision not to relist the ESU. (PLF represented Alsea Valley Alliance as a defendant-intervenor in that case. Unfortunately, PLF's appeal was dismissed as moot as the Service relisted the ESU while the appeal of the remand decision was still pending).
The five-year review initiation is not surprising, given the Service's observation in its February, 2008, relisting decision that, had the agency had more time to review a full administrative record (rather than the shortened period to review a truncated record in response to the remand order), it might have come out the other way.
{Hat tip: The Columbia Basin Bulletin]