Wildlife Advocates Win Appeal Over Idaho Wolf-Killing Plan

A lawsuit by conservation groups over a plan to thin out Idaho’s Northern Rocky Mountain gray wolf population was wrongly dismissed, a federal appeals court ruled April 23.

The Western Watersheds Project, the Center for Biological Diversity, and other groups have standing to sue Idaho and USDA Wildlife Services on claims that the federal government’s participation in the project must be preceded by an environmental impact study under the National Environmental Policy Act, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit said.

The district court ruled the groups’ claimed injuries weren’t redressable—and they therefore had no standing to sue—because ...