Author: Brandon Middleton In yesterday's Anchorage Daily News, Alaska Attorney General Dan Sullivan elaborates on Governor Sean Parnell's "comprehensive strategy to ensure that the ESA is not used as a tool to lock up Alaska's resources and shut down our economy." Sullivan asks Alaskans to not be naïve towards the motives of ...
Author: Brandon Middleton As we noted earlier, the State of Alaska is prepared to contest bogus Endangered Species Act restrictions. Leading the effort is Governor Sean Parnell, who sees the issue of ESA abuse as a critical one for Alaska's future: He announced plans to fight the scope of the federal Endangered Species Act, including ...
Author: Damien M. Schiff Last Friday, the State of Alaska filed suit in federal court in D.C. against the National Marine Fisheries Service, challenging the agency's 2008 Endangered Species Act listing for the Cook Inlet distinct population segment of Beluga whale. The complaint raises several claims, including attacks on the Service ...
Author: Damien M. Schiff The State of Alaska announced today that it intends to sue the Fish and Wildlife Service over the agency's 180,000 square mile plus designation of critical habitat for the polar bear. I've already written here about the questionable economic analysis that the Service completed for the designation ...
Author: Reed Hopper In almost all cases, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service overstates Critical Habitat for threatened and endangered species. This is because the Service is unwilling or unable to expend the resources to determine those areas actually occupied by the species and which are essential to the conservation of the spe ...
The State of Alaska has asked the United States Supreme Court to review a decision of the Ninth Circuit which says that the federal government, instead of the state, has the power to regulate hunting and fishing in navigable waters in Alaska. PLF has filed an amicus brief in support of Alaska, encouraging the high … ...
The Supreme Court will soon decide how much control federal agencies can exercise over Alaska’s lands and waters. A California-sized chunk of the state sits within federal “conservation system units.” These conservation areas include national parks, wildlife refuges, preserves, and so on. Such areas are subject to special fede ...
It is ice cold under sunny skies in the nation’s capitol today, as Washington DC braces for yet another storm of the century this coming weekend. It is a fitting setting for the Supreme Court to hear oral argument today in the aptly-captioned Sturgeon v. Frost. In this case, the National Park Service is claiming … ...
We’re from the Government and we’re doing you a favor That is essentially the government’s theme in its opening brief in Hawkes v. United States, our wetlands jurisdiction case at the Supreme Court. Our case is all about whether a property owner has a right to appeal a “wetlands jurisdictional determination” by the Co ...