NEW MEXICO FARM AND LIVESTOCK BUREAU; NEW MEXICO CATTLEGROWERS' ASSOCATION; NEW MEXICO FEDERAL LANDS COUNCIL v. US DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR; RYAN ZINKE; US FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE; DANIEL M. ASHE and CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY; DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE

Publication Year
2020
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The 10th Circuit has ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service wrongfully designated over 110,000 acres in New Mexico and Arizona as critical habitat for endangered jaguars. The panel determined that the designation was arbitrary and capricious because the agency did not issue a finding on the adequacy of the rest of the area as habitat for the endangered species. [To accompany Federal Case Law Update "10th Circuit Strikes Down Critical Habitat for Jaguars" from Brooks Animal Law Digest Issue No. 22.]