Description: Challenge to delisting of Preble's meadow jumping mouse as endangered or threatened in Wyoming.
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Center for Native Ecosystems v. Salazar
Case Documents:
Filing Date Type File Action Taken Summary 07/07/2011 Memorandum Opinion and Order Download Federal respondents' motion for remand and vacatur granted. 06/03/2011 Response Download Respondent-intervenor State of Wyoming's response to federal respondents' motion for voluntary remand and vacatur. 05/13/2011 Memorandum Download Memorandum filed by federal respondents in support of motion for voluntary remand and vacatur. 05/13/2011 Motion Download Motion for voluntary remand and vacatur filed by federal respondents. 06/23/2009 Petition for Review Download Petition for review filed. Five environmental groups filed a lawsuit in the federal district court for the District of Colorado challenging the decision of the U.S. Department of the Interior and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to remove the Preble’s meadow jumping mouse. The complaint called the mouse an "indicator of the health of its ecosystem" and alleged that it faced threats from the impacts of global climate change. The plaintiffs asserted that the delisting relied on a definition of the term "significant portion of its range" in the definitions of "endangered" and "threatened" that was at odds with statutory language. The plaintiffs also said the delisting was not based on the best scientific data available or a reasonable analysis of the Endangered Species Act's five statutory listing factors.