The 9th Circuit refused to stop federal agencies from killing wild
buffalo that attempt to migrate outside of Yellowstone National Park.
The federal appeals court in Seattle said the government was not required to reassess its lethal methods, despite new information about the herd's habitat, genetic diversity and risk of disease.
The current management plan, in effect since 2000 and due to expire in 2014, allows various federal agencies to cull the herd and kill bison that venture outside the park where they could interact with grazing cattle and pass brucellosis.
Western Watersheds Project (WWP) and other environmental groups challenged the practice in 2009, arguing that new science should have triggered a reassessment. They met with defeat in Montana District Court two years later when U.S. District Judge Charles Lovell refused to issue an injunction.
"Distasteful as the lethal removal may be to some, it is clearly one of the foremost management tools - time honored - necessarily utilized to protect the species, the habitat, and the public," Lovell wrote.
Read more: http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/08/31/49873.htm
The federal appeals court in Seattle said the government was not required to reassess its lethal methods, despite new information about the herd's habitat, genetic diversity and risk of disease.
The current management plan, in effect since 2000 and due to expire in 2014, allows various federal agencies to cull the herd and kill bison that venture outside the park where they could interact with grazing cattle and pass brucellosis.
Western Watersheds Project (WWP) and other environmental groups challenged the practice in 2009, arguing that new science should have triggered a reassessment. They met with defeat in Montana District Court two years later when U.S. District Judge Charles Lovell refused to issue an injunction.
"Distasteful as the lethal removal may be to some, it is clearly one of the foremost management tools - time honored - necessarily utilized to protect the species, the habitat, and the public," Lovell wrote.
Read more: http://www.courthousenews.com/2012/08/31/49873.htm
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