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IN DEFENSE OF ANIMALS v. U.S. DEPT. OF INTERIOR

No. 12-17804.

751 F.3d 1054 (2014)

IN DEFENSE OF ANIMALS; DREAMCATCHER WILD HORSE AND BURRO SANCTUARY; Barbara Clarke; Chad Hanson; Linda Hay, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF the INTERIOR; Bureau of Land Management; Sally Jewell, Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior; Neil Kornze, Director of the Bureau of Land Management; Ken Collum, Field Manager of Eagle Lake Field Office, Defendants-Appellees, Safari Club International; Safari Club International Foundation, Intervenor-Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Filed May 12, 2014.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rachel M. Fazio , Cedar Ridge, CA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Ignacia S. Moreno , Assistant Attorney General; Nancy Zahedi , United States Department of the Interior, Office of Regional Solicitor; Erik E. Petersen , Ayako Sato , and Mark R. Haag , United States Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Washington, D.C., for Defendants-Appellees.

Douglas Scott Burdin and Anna Seidman , Safari Club International, Washington, D.C., for Intervenor-Defendants-Appellees.

Before: MARY M. SCHROEDER, JOHNNIE B. RAWLINSON, and CARLOS T. BEA, Circuit Judges.

OPINION

BEA, Circuit Judge:

Wild horses — mustangs — and burros are part of our nation's heritage from the American West; a heritage Congress has sought to preserve. That these animals should roam the Western spaces appeals to the nature lover and historian in each of us.

But these animals eat and trample. Even in the wide open West of our nation, there is just so much forage; there are also many vulnerable cultural artifacts underfoot...

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