USFWS Forced to Reconsider Listing Colorado River Cutthroat

“The agency had denied federal protection for the fish in 2004, prompting the Biodiversity Conservation Alliance, based in Laramie, and the Center for Biological Diversity, based in Tucson, Ariz., to take the agency to court. U.S. District Judge Paul Friedman in Washington found that the Fish and Wildlife Service failed to follow its own procedures.” In the Casper, Wyoming Star-Tribune.
Meanwhile the Interior Department seems content to ignore the potential impacts of leasing public land for experimental oil shale projects in Wyoming.