Western Watersheds Project

Idaho Wildlife Services Environmental Assessment

Idaho Wildlife Services Environmental Assessment

Case: Western Watersheds Project, WildEarth Guardians, Center for Biological Diversity, and Predator Defense v. USDA APHIS Wildlife Services

August 31, 2018 – Advocates for the West filed our remedies brief in this case, seeking interim injunctive relief and asking the Court to order Wildlife Services to prepare a legally adequate Environmental Impact Statement and Record of Decision within 3 years of the remedies order. June 22, 2018 – Advocates for the West won a […]

South Beaverhead Bighorn Sheep

South Beaverhead Bighorn Sheep

Case: Western Watersheds Project and WildEarth Guardians v. U.S. Forest Service

Nov 20, 2017 — The Honorable Judge Dale granted our motion for Preliminary Injunction to stop fall/winter grazing of domestic sheep on the Snakey Canyon and Kelly Canyon allotments. You can read Judge Dale’s Memorandum Decision and Order below. November 15, 2017 — Advocates for the West attended court to stop controversial Sheep Station research that […]

Idaho Wildlife Services 2017 FOIA

Idaho Wildlife Services 2017 FOIA

Case: Western Watersheds Project v. USDA APHIS Wildlife Services

Finding out What Wildlife Services is up to in our State Advocates for the West filed suit on behalf of Western Watersheds Project, challenging Wildlife Services’ failure to adequately and timely respond to two Freedom of Information Act requests seeking information about Wildlife Services’ activities in Idaho.  In both cases, Wildlife Services failed to fully […]

Wildlife Services Wolf-Killing in Idaho

Wildlife Services Wolf-Killing in Idaho

Case: Western Watersheds Project, Center for Biological Diversity, Friends of the Clearwater, WildEarth Guardians, and Predator Defense

March 11, 2020 — Advocates for the West and our allies secured a strong victory in this case in an agreement that sets strict limits on how and where a federal agency can kill wolves in Idaho, bans the use of M-44 “cyanide bombs” statewide, and prohibits the use of snares to kill wolves on […]