Wildlife Agency to Revisit Grazing Approval for Montana Refuge

The US Fish and Wildlife Service will revisit the environmental analysis behind commercial cattle grazing approvals in a Montana wildlife refuge, according to a court order.

The agency committed to a “multi-part planning effort” to address environmental groups’ concerns that grazing authorization in the Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge was approved with a decades-old environmental assessment, the US District Court for the District of Montana ruled Monday.

• Judge Donald W. Molloy declined to grant the environmental groups’ request for vacatur of the approval, stating the Service’s request for voluntary remand “is not a bad faith or frivolous attempt to ...