ELR Citation: ELR 20136
No(s). 03-217(RCL) (D.D.C. Nov 1, 2004)

A district court vacated and remanded the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's (FWS') designation of critical habitat in North Carolina for the wintering piper plover. The FWS may only designate occupied critical habitat in areas where the pertinent physical or biological features of the bird are curren...