The document s publication triggers a 30-day wait period, at the end of which the agency s regional director will sign a Record of Decision selecting the option to be implemented.
Two environmental nonprofits filed a lawsuit in federal court Tuesday against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service over the management of the Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge.
Bureau of Land Management officials signed off on an environmental assessment in April, approving the primitive road from Left Coulee to access the monument’s 35,500-acre Bullwhacker region.
Plaintiffs argue wildlife officials relied on ‘unfounded assumptions’ and ‘flawed’ population models in a February 2023 finding that wolves in the Northern Rockies are not facing an extinction threat.