CENTER FOR NATIVE ECOSYSTEMS v. SALAZAR

Civil Action No. 09-cv-01463-AP.

795 F.Supp.2d 1236 (2011)

CENTER FOR NATIVE ECOSYSTEMS, Biodiversity Conservation Alliance, Center for Biological Diversity, Defenders of Wildlife, and Natural Resources Defense Council, Petitioners, v. Ken SALAZAR, Secretary of the Interior, and Rowan Gould, Director, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Respondents, and State of Wyoming, Wyoming Farm Bureau Federation, and Wyoming Stock Growers Association, Intervenors.

United States District Court, D. Colorado.

July 7, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jason C. Rylander , Defenders of Wildlife, Eric R. Glitzenstein , Meyer Glitzenstein & Crystal, Washington, DC, Michael Ray Harris , University of Denver-Sturm College of Law, Denver, CO, for Petitioners.

John Brett Grosko , U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, DC, Michael Richard Eitel , U.S. Department of Justice, Denver, CO, for Respondents.

Affie B. Ellis , James C. Kaste , Wyoming Attorney General's Office, Cheyenne, WY, James Scott Detamore , Steven James Lechner , Mountain States Legal Foundation, Lakewood, CO, for Intervenors.


MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

KANE, Senior District Judge.

This matter is currently before me on Respondents' Motion to Remand and for Vacatur (doc. 69). At issue is the future of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's 2008 decision to delist the Preble's Meadow Jumping Mouse (Zapus hudsonius preblei) in the Wyoming portion of its range. For the reasons stated below, Respondents' motion is GRANTED.

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