Western Watersheds ProjectA deal isn't a deal unless the parties hold to it. In this case, the cows aren't gone, and the solar development that was authorized in exchange for their removal is happening anyway. #ProtectGoldButte #GoldButte #Nevada #DesertTortoise #Solar
Greens initiate lawsuit over harmful effects of Bundy cattle, solar farms on desert tortoises
Western Watersheds Project took the first step today in launching an Endangered Species Act lawsuit challenging government agency failures to protect the rare Mojave desert tortoise in southern Nevada by filing a Notice of Intent to sue several federal agencies. The challenge focuses on the Multi-Species Habitat Conservation Plan (“Conservation Plan”), and Bureau of Land Management failures to protect key desert tortoise habitats from industrial solar energy projects and the impacts of Cliven Bundy’s cattle, which continue to trespass on federal grazing allotments closed to livestock to protect the desert tortoise.