Judge dismisses lawsuit against grazing on eight Oregon allotments

A federal judge has rejected arguments that cattle grazing hurts endangered sucker fish in violation of forest management law.

A federal judge has rejected environmentalist arguments that cattle grazing has unlawfully harmed endangered sucker fish in Oregon’s Fremont-Winema National Forest.

U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark Clarke has thrown out a lawsuit by three environmental groups — Oregon Wild, Friends of Living Oregon Waters and the Western Watersheds Project — which claimed that grazing was unlawfully authorized on eight allotments in the Lost River watershed.

Source: Judge dismisses lawsuit against grazing on eight Oregon allotments – – Capital Press

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