Cascadia Wildlands v. Scott Timber Co.

ELR Citation: 47 ELR 20147
No(s). 17-35038 (9th Cir. Nov 16, 2017)

The Ninth Circuit reversed a lower court's grant of an injunction to halt a logging project in Oregon. A conservation group brought a citizen suit under the ESA challenging a logging project it claimed would result in the taking of the marbled murrelet, a seabird listed as a threatened species. The ...