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Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Fight over Lesser Prairie Chicken to be settled in Tulsa
A federal judge has decided a lawsuit challenging increased federal
regulation of economic activity and land use in the area that is habitat
for the Lesser Prairie Chicken will be litigated in Oklahoma and not
transferred to Washington, D.C., Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt
said today. The decision yesterday by U.S. District Judge James H. Payne is the
second time in the last two months that the federal judiciary has
rejected an attempt by the federal government to move the litigation
from Oklahoma to Washington, D.C. “This is good news for Kansas,” Schmidt said. “It means our case
will be decided here in our region where the actual effect of heightened
federal regulation is already being felt by landowners, energy
producers and other affected parties. The case will not be sent to
Washington where it would be at risk of becoming just another abstract
bureaucratic fight.” Kansas, Oklahoma and North Dakota filed suit in April challenging the
decision by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service to list the Lesser
Prairie Chicken as “threatened.” Nebraska and the New Mexico Department
of Game and Fish also are requesting to join in the litigation...more
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