Good Neighbor Law


Breaking News: December 21, 2007
Notice: Some U.S. Senators, Congressmen and investigative reporters are working together to expose groups like the Center for Biological Diversity, for taking millions of your taxpayer dollars to further their goal of privately controlling your land and water. Keep checking www.GoodNeighhborLaw.com for the forthcoming reports.
Suit Filed to Protect 13 Species in Four States, Millions of Acres of Habitat
From: the Center for Biological Diversity Published December 20, 2007 10:46 AM RELATED ARTICLES U.S. Sued Over Toad at Center of Roberts' Case Groups Say Government Is Dragging Its Feet Protecting 283 Species Habitat for the Red-Legged Frog Reduced Lawsuit Seeks to Shield Alaska Sea Otter
WASHINGTON, DC — The Center for Biological Diversity and other groups filed lawsuits Wednesday challenging the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's refusal to properly designate and protect critical habitat areas for 13 endangered species in Oregon, California, New Mexico, and North Carolina. The suits are part of a broader effort by the Center to challenge political corruption harming 55 endangered species and cutting more than 8.5 million acres of wildlife habitat. The group filed simultaneous lawsuits challenging six other decisions in November. Today's lawsuits challenge the slashing of 4,223,036 acres of critical habitat for the California red-legged frog, arroyo toad, three plants in California, and four invertebrates in New Mexico, as well as the failure to even consider critical habitat protection for four additional plants in California, Oregon, and North Carolina. Many of the flawed decisions in today's 13 suits were engineered by Julie MacDonald, the disgraced former deputy assistant secretary of the interior who resigned in March following a scathing report by the inspector general. The Government Accountability Office and the inspector general are currently conducting investigations into political meddling in scientific decisions by MacDonald and other high-level officials in the Department of the Interior and the Fish and Wildlife Service. "Habitat loss is the number-one killer of endangered species," said Michael Senatore, senior counsel at the Center for Biological Diversity. "These species won't survive unless we protect their habitat. Julie MacDonald is an endangered-species Death Star. Her overruling of scientists is inexcusable. "The red-legged frog, arroyo toad, and golden sedge have evolved over millions of years," added Senatore. "It is immoral to sacrifice them for political gain. Federal scientists are doing their best to save endangered species but are overruled at every turn by Bush-administration bureaucrats. "The political problems in the Department of Interior run much deeper than MacDonald. The agency has descended into a culture of corruption, the likes of which I've never seen before," Senatore concluded. Today's suits were filed by attorneys at the Center for Biological Diversity and Earthjustice. Forest Guardians is a co-plaintiff in the New Mexico invertebrates case. Species list: • California red-legged frog • Arroyo toad • Spreading navarretia and thread-leaved brodiaea • Lane Mountain milk-vetch • San Diego ambrosia • Cook's lomatium and large-flowered woolly meadowfoam • Golden sedge • Four New Mexico invertebrates The Center for Biological Diversity is a national, nonprofit conservation organization with more than 35,000 members dedicated to the protection of endangered species and wild places. Contact Info: Mike Senatore Tel : 301-466-0774 ENN: Suit Filed to Protect 13 Species in Four States, Millions of Acres of Habitat http://www.enn.com/press_releases/2292


Good Neighbor Committee P.O. Box 155 - La Salle, CO 80645 info@goodneighborlaw.com \| Good Neighbor Law© 2006 \|