Western Watersheds Project v. United States Bureau of Land Management

ELR Citation: 45 ELR 20044
No(s). CV-13-01028-PHX-PGR (D. Ariz. Feb 26, 2015) (Rosenblatt, J.)

A district court held that BLM failed to adequately explain and support its decision to allow grazing on Sonoran Desert National Monument lands north of Interstate Highway 8 in violation of NEPA. Specifically, the court ruled that BLM's land health evaluation—an essential step in the process of de...