California Sea Urchin Comm'n v. Bean
ELR Citation: 48 ELR 20037 No(s). 15-56672, 17-55428 (9th Cir. Mar 1, 2018)
The Ninth Circuit upheld FWS' decision to end its 1987 sea otter translocation program. FWS created an experimental reserve population of southern sea otters some distance from the main population, but in 2012, FWS deemed the program a failure and terminated it. FWS' interpretation of the statute al...