Articles

Another common sense decision against "take by permit" under the ESA

September 08, 2014 | By TONY FRANCOIS

We recently reported on the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision in The Aransas Project v. Shaw, which held that the Texas Department of Environmental Quality had not committed illegal take of endangered whooping cranes by issuing permits for diversion of water hundreds of miles upstream from their refuge on the Gulf Coast. Another recent ...