|Wyoming Wolf Plan Intervention||Wyoming's wolves are protected
by the federal government. The state wants to take over
management and allow the killing of wolves. The Fish and
Wildlife Service denied Wyoming's plan; ranchers, farmers, and
others filed suit; and Earthjustice intevened to assure a stout
defense of the wolves.| |Rock Creek Mine||The Fish and Wildlife
Service rewrote a biological opinion that originally said that a
mine proposed in the Cabinet Mountains in Montana could wipe out
grizzly bears and bull trout there -- the new opinion says the
mine poses no threat. A district court has now ruled that
opinion illegal too, halting the mine for now.| |Lake Okeechobee
Pollution Limits|| Lake Okeechobee in Florida is overloaded with
fertilizer and animal waste from cattle and dairy farms as well
as other sources. Existing restrictions are inadequate to the
task of cleaning them up. Earthjustice successfully sued to make
the authorities follow the law and clean up waterways tributary
to the Lake. |Sacram