Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne illegally refused to designate critical habitat for the endangered arroyo toad, which has lost more than 3/4ths of its habitat since 1994, the Center for Biological Diversity claims in San Diego Federal Court. See complaint.
Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne illegally refused to determine whether to list the yellow-billed loon as threatened or endangered, the Center for Biological Diversity claims in San Francisco Federal Court. The Center also sued Kempthorne in the same court for eliminating 3.5 million acres of protected habitat for the California red-legged frog.
Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne illegally refused to designate critical habitat for the endangered herbs, spreading navarretia and thread-leaved brodiaea, the Center for Biological Diversity claims in San Diego Federal Court.
Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne illegally refused to designate critical habitat for the endangered plants, San Diego ambrosia, Cook's lomatium, large-flowered woolly meadowform and golden sedge, the Center for Biological Diversity claims in San Diego Federal Court.
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