Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Wednesday, March 15, 2017
Conservation Groups Oppose Effort to Remove Wolf Protections in California
Four conservation groups filed a motion
today to intervene in a lawsuit seeking to remove California Endangered
Species Act protections from wolves. The lawsuit, against the state
Fish and Wildlife Commission, was brought by the Pacific Legal
Foundation and wrongly alleges that wolves are ineligible for state
protection. The intervenors — the Center for Biological Diversity, Environmental
Protection Information Center, Cascadia Wildlands and Klamath-Siskiyou
Wildlands Center — are represented by Earthjustice. Brought on behalf of the California Cattlemen’s Association and
California Farm Bureau Federation, the lawsuit alleges that wolves are
ineligible for state protection because wolves returning to the state
are supposedly the wrong subspecies, which only occurred intermittently
in California at the time of the decision and are doing fine in other
states...more
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