The New York Times writes a wonderful editorial mentioning two recent legal victories (public land rancher secrecy & Bush grazing regs) Western Watersheds Project and Advocates for the West won in federal court ~
The Public Trust – New York Times Editorial
Two recent court decisions have now reasserted the public interest. A panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last month that the Bush regulations violated environmental laws by limiting public participation in bureau decisions and weakened the ability of federal and state agencies to prevent harmful grazing practices and manage rangelands in an environmentally sound way.
Two weeks later in Idaho, United States District Court Judge Candy Dale ruled that the bureau must end its policy of withholding the names and addresses of people with grazing permits on 160 million acres of its land.