BEAR VALLEY MUTUAL WATER COMPANY; Big Bear Municipal Water District; City of Redlands; City of Riverside; City of San Bernardino Municipal Water Department; East Valley Water District; Riverside County Flood Control and Water Conservation District; San Bernardino Valley Municipal Water District; San Bernardino Valley Water Conservation District; Western Municipal Water District; West Valley Water District; Yucaipa Valley Water District, Plaintiffs-Appellants,
v.
Sally JEWELL, Secretary of the United States Department of the Interior; United States Department of the Interior; Daniel M. Ashe, Director, United States Fish and Wildlife Service; United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Defendants-Appellees,
California Trout, Inc.; Center for Biological Diversity; San Bernardino Audubon Society; Sierra Club, Intervenor-Defendants-Appellees.
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Argued and Submitted March 5, 2015.
Filed June 25, 2015.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Gregory K. Wilkinson (argued), Wendy Wang , Melissa Cushman , and Kira Johnson , Best Best & Krieger LLP, Riverside, CA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants City of Riverside, Riverside County Flood Control and Water Conservation District, and Western Municipal Water District.
Jean Cihigoyenetche , Brunick, McElhaney & Kennedy, San Bernardino, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellant East Valley Water District.
David G. Moore , Reid & Kellyer, Riverside, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellant Bear Valley Mutual Water Company.
Daniel J. McHugh , Office of the City Attorney, Redlands, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellant City of Redlands.
Wayne Lemieux , Lemieux & O'Neill, Thousand Oaks, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellant Big Bear Municipal Water District.
David B. Cosgrove , Rutan & Tucker LLP, Costa Mesa, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellant San Bernardino Valley Water Conservation District.
Andrew M. Hitchings , Somach Simmons & Dunn, Sacramento, CA, for Plaintiff-Appellant City of San Bernardino Municipal Water Department.
Robert G. Dreher , Acting Assistant Attorney General, Andrea Gelatt , and Allen M. Brabender (argued), Attorneys, United States Department of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Division, Washington, D.C.; Lynn Cox , Office of the Solicitor, United States Department of the Interior, for Federal Defendants-Appellees.
John Buse (argued) and D. Adam Lazar , Center for Biological Diversity, San Francisco, CA, for Intervenor-Defendants-Appellees.
Before: HARRY PREGERSON, BARRINGTON D. PARKER, JR., and JACQUELINE H. NGUYEN, Circuit Judges.
OPINION
PARKER, Senior Circuit Judge:
The Santa Ana sucker (Catostomus santaanae) is a small freshwater fish native to several California rivers and streams, including the Santa Ana River. In 2000, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service ("FWS"), after being sued by conservation groups, designated the sucker as a "threatened...
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