Lawsuit Targets Federal OK of Off-Road Routes, Grazing Threatening Imperiled Species in California Deserts
Environmental groups sued the Interior Department, U.S. Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for authorizing damaging activities in the California Desert Conservation Area, including a vast network of off-road vehicle routes in the West Mojave Desert. The routes are driving desert tortoises and other threatened and endangered species closer to extinction and destroying these protected public lands.
Today’s complaint — filed by the Defenders of Wildlife, Center for Biological Diversity, Desert Survivors, Sierra Club, California Native Plant Society and Desert Tortoise Council — says the federal agencies failed to adequately consider potential environmental damage before approving the West Mojave Route Network Project and plan amendments in 2019.
Lawsuit Targets Federal OK of Off-Road Routes, Grazing Threatening Imperiled Species in California Deserts
Environmental groups sued the Interior Department, U.S. Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today for authorizing damaging activities in the California Desert Conservation Area, including a vast network of off-road vehicle routes in the West Mojave Desert. The routes are driving desert tortoises and other threatened and endangered species closer to extinction and destroying these protected public lands.
Today’s complaint — filed by the Defenders of Wildlife, Center for Biological Diversity, Desert Survivors, Sierra Club, California Native Plant Society and Desert Tortoise Council — says the federal agencies failed to adequately consider potential environmental damage before approving the West Mojave Route Network Project and plan amendments in 2019.
Lawsuit Targets Federal OK of Off-Road Routes, Grazing Threatening Imperiled Species in California Deserts