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Thousands of miles of streams now critical habitat for the bull trout

October 14, 2010 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author:  Damien M. Schiff This week, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service issued a new designation of critical habitat for the ESA-protected bull trout.  The designation comes after a successful lawsuit in federal district court in Oregon brought by environmental groups, Alliance for the Wild Rockies v. Allen, challenging t ...

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Fish and Wildlife Service proposes dramatically to expand bull trout critical habitat

January 20, 2010 | By PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION

Author:  Damien M. Schiff Last week, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service published a proposal to revise the existing critical habitat for the bull trout.  The proposal, covering some 22,000 miles of streams and 500,000 acres of lakes of reservoirs in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and Nevada, is a significant expansion over the trout's c ...