Posted by Jonathan Adler:
Grizzlies "Threatened" Again:
http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2009_09_20-2009_09_26.shtml#1253623882
A federal district court judge overturned the U.S. Fish & Wildlife
Service's decision to remove Grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone
area from the endangered species list. From the [1]LA Times:
In a strongly worded order, U.S. District Judge Donald W. Molloy
said that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's conclusion that the
bears would find adequate food and protected habitat in Wyoming,
Montana and Idaho was not supported by the government's own
science, and that protections put into place for the grizzlies were
not enforceable.
The ruling largely supported conservationists' assertion that the
predators faced devastating losses to one of their most important
food sources as a result of climate change. It ordered the
government to put the bears back under the protection of the
Endangered Species Act until long-term strategies to assure their
survival were in place.
"Much of the science [cited by the government] directly contradicts
the service's conclusions," the judge wrote in his 46-page
decision. "Where the agency's conclusions contradict the science,
the conclusions are not reasonable, and the court need not defer to
the agency's decision."
References
1.
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-grizzly22-2009sep22,0,4749832.story
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