ELR Citation: ELR 20706
No(s). 94-35070 (9th Cir. Mar 24, 1995)

The court holds that an environmental group established an actionable "taking" under Endangered Species Act (ESA) §9(a)(1)(B) by showing that a logging company's timber harvesting plans posed an imminent threat of harm to a pair of northern spotted owls, a threatened species under the ESA. The owls...