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Jake Bleich, Defenders of Wildlife, (202) 772-3208
Andrea Zaccardi, Center for Biological Diversity, (303) 854-7748
Bonnie Rice, Sierra Club, (406) 582-8365, ext. 1 Missoula, MT â
The federal district court in Montana on Tuesday invalidated the federal governmentâs approval of the first phase of the Rock Creek Mine, a major copper and silver mine proposed beneath the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness in northwest Montana.
The court ruled that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Forest Service violated the Endangered Species Act by unlawfully ignoring the impacts of the full mine proposal on federally protected grizzly bears and bull trout. The ruling safeguards the most vulnerable grizzly bear population in the lower 48 states, threatened bull trout, and sacred and aboriginal lands of the Ktunaxa Nation from the mineâs impacts.Â