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REDMOND BUREAU
Judge throws out Trump-era
rollbacks on endangered species
BY MATTHEW DALY
Associated Press
A federal judge on Tuesday
threw out a host of actions by
the Trump administration to
roll back protections for en-
dangered or threatened spe-
cies, a year after the Biden
administration said it was
moving to strengthen such
species protections.
U.S. District Judge Jon Tigar
in Northern California elim-
inated the Trump-era rules
even as two wildlife agencies
under President Joe Biden are
reviewing or rescinding the
regulations. The decision re-
stores a range of protections
under the Endangered Species
Act — including some that
date to the 1970s — while the
reviews are completed. Envi-
ronmental groups hailed the
decision, which they said sped
up needed protections and
critical habitat designations
for threatened species, in-
cluding salmon in the Pacific
Northwest.
Tigar’s ruling “spoke for
species desperately in need of
comprehensive federal protec-
tions without compromise,”
said Kristen Boyles, an attor-
ney for the environmental
group Earthjustice. “Threat-
ened and endangered spe-
cies do not have the luxury of
waiting under rules that do
not protect them.”
The court ruling comes as
two federal agencies — the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
and National Marine Fisheries
Service — review five Endan-
gered Species Act regulations
finalized by President Don-
ald Trump’s administration,
including critical habitat des-
ignations and rules requiring
Tom
Gallagher/
AP file
In this June 1995 file photo a
northern spotted owl sits on a
branch in Point Reyes, California.
A federal judge on Tuesday
threw out a host of actions by
the Trump administration to roll
back protections for endangered
or threatened species.
California Department of Fish and Wildlife/file
A February 2021 photo by California Department of Fish and Wildlife shows a gray wolf (OR93), seen
near Yosemite, California. On Tuesday, a federal judge threw out a host of actions by the Trump adminis-
tration to roll back protections for endangered or threatened species, a year after the Biden administra-
tion said it was moving to strengthen those species protections.
federal agencies to consult
with the wildlife or fisheries
services before taking actions
that could affect threatened or
endangered species.
Fish and Wildlife also said it
will reinstate the decades-old
“blanket rule,” which man-
dates additional protections
for species that are newly clas-
sified as threatened. Those
protections were removed un-
der Trump.
Critical habitat designa-
tions for threatened or en-
dangered species can result
in limitations on energy de-
velopment such as mining or
oil drilling that could disturb
a vulnerable species, while
A gopher frog
is pictured at the
Audubon Zoo in
New Orleans on
Sept. 27, 2011.
Gerald Herbert/AP file
the consultation rule and a
separate rule on the scope of
proposed federal actions help
determine how far the gov-
ernment may go to protect
imperiled species.
Under Trump, officials
rolled back protections for
the northern spotted owl,
gray wolves and other spe-
cies, actions that Biden has
vowed to review. The Biden
administration previously
moved to reverse Trump’s de-
cision to weaken enforcement
of the century-old Migratory
Bird Treaty Act, which made
it harder to prosecute bird
deaths caused by the energy
industry.
The bird law reversal was
among more than 150 busi-
ness-friendly actions on the
environment that Trump took
and Biden wants to recon-
sider, revise or scrap, includ-
ing withdrawal last month of
a 2020 rule that limited which
lands and waters could be
designated as places where
imperiled animals and plants
could receive federal protec-
tion.
Industry groups and Re-
publicans in Congress have
long viewed the Endangered
Species Act as an impediment
to economic development,
and under Trump they suc-
cessfully lobbied to weaken
the law’s regulations. Environ-
mental groups and Democrat-
ic-controlled states battled the
moves in court, but many of
those cases remained unre-
solved.
OREGON GOVERNOR’S RACE
Candidate Tina Kotek tests positive for COVID-19
Former House speaker
says she’s ‘taking it easy
for a few days’
From Bulletin wire reports
Democratic candidate for Oregon
governor Tina Kotek said Tuesday that
she tested positive for COVID-19.
Kotek said on Twitter she was rest-
ing and taking it easy for a few days
and that she’s grateful to be vaccinated
and boosted, KOIN-TV reported.
Over the holiday weekend, Kotek
posted photos to Twitter showing her
campaigning, hiking in Silver
Falls State Park and enjoying
Portland Pickles baseball.
Kotek won the Democratic
primary election in May. She
previously served as speaker
of the Oregon House.
Oregon lifted many of its
COVID-19 restrictions in
Kotek
the spring. According to June
30 data from the federal Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, 24
Oregon counties — including Crook,
Deschutes and Jefferson counties —
have moved into the high-risk level
for COVID-19. More than a
dozen Washington counties
have also reached the high-
risk level.
At that level, experts urge
people to wear high-quality
masks while indoors in public
spaces, get tested if experienc-
ing symptoms and make sure
vaccinations and boosters are
up to date.
Peter Graven, lead forecaster for
Oregon Health and Science Uni-
versity, told KGW-TV he expects
COVID-19 to keep spreading
through July.
He said omicron subvariants BA.4
and BA.5 have come on strong in Or-
egon recently. Health officials said
the two newer subvariants are now
responsible for more than half of the
new cases in the state.
Anyone at risk for severe illness in
high-risk areas should consider taking
additional precautions such as stay-
ing 6 feet away from others, avoiding
crowds and poorly ventilated spaces,
and washing hands often, according to
the CDC.
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LOCAL BRIEFING
Restoration work to
temporarily close trails
Forest restoration projects
west of Bend will temporarily
close segments of the Rimrock
Paved Path and the Ticket to
Ride Trail starting Monday.
The work being done can
cause large debris to fly in all di-
rections, endangering trail us-
ers, according to a news release
from the U.S. Forest Service,
which announced the closures.
The closures will occur on
weekdays and will remain
in place until work has been
completed in the areas adja-
cent to the trails. Full access to
the trails will be available on
weekends. The Forest Service
will notify the public when
work is complete and weekday
access resumes.
The Rimrock Paved Path
will be closed between its ter-
minus at the Cascades Lakes
Welcome Station east to the
intersection with Forest Road
4604-400. The Ticket to Ride
Trail will be closed between
the Cascades Lakes Welcome
Station east to the junction
with Forest Road 4604-400.
The work, part of the West
Bend Project area, includes
mowing and reducing brush
and small trees into small
chunks. Objectives include
fuels reduction in the wild-
land-urban interface and res-
toration of forest health. The
Forest Service said this work
will help create a forest that is
more resilient to fire, insect in-
festations, and disease.
Questions about the work
can be directed to the Bend-
Fort Rock Ranger District at
541-383-5300.
the agency’s grazing plans were
“unsupported and irrational”
in violation of the Endangered
Species Act, National Environ-
mental Policy Act and National
Forest Management Act.
The judge has now re-
jected all those arguments,
ruling that the government
adequately analyzed livestock
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Environmentalists lose
Oregon grazing lawsuit
U.S. District Judge Michael
McShane has dismissed a
lawsuit filed by environmen-
tal advocates who said the
U.S. Forest Service unlaw-
fully authorized grazing in the
165,000-acre Antelope Allot-
ment of the Fremont-Winema
National Forest.
“The Forest Service made
a rational decision when it
decided on a course of ac-
tion that included continued
grazing in the Antelope Allot-
ment,” McShane said.
The most recent plans for
the allotment opened up more
land for grazing to encourage
cattle to disperse instead of
congregating in areas inhab-
ited by the threatened Oregon
spotted frog.
The Concerned Friends of
the Winema and four other en-
vironmental nonprofits filed a
federal lawsuit in 2019 alleging
impacts on the threatened
Oregon spotted frog in light
of climate change and other
stressors.
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