| SAF Again Points Out Unsupported Arguments by Animal ExtremistsYesterday, May 21, the Sportsmen’s Alliance Foundation, along with Safari Club International and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, completed briefing in a trio of lawsuits brought by animal extremist groups to relist wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountain region under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). We’ve doubled down on our ask to the court to issue a judgment in our favor due to the animal extremists’ lack of standing and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (FWS) proper denial of the extremists’ attempts to relist gray wolves in the Northern Rockies.
The Sportsmen’s Alliance and our conservation partners filed our final reply brief with the District Court in Montana, marking the end of briefing a year after successfully intervening in the lawsuits to defend the denials by FWS. We will present our arguments next month to the District Judge in Missoula, Montana. Based on the thorough defenses by the Sportsmen’s Alliance, conservation partners, state agencies and FWS, we’re confident the judge will agree that FWS very clearly considered the best available science to support the denials. Read more |
