$32.00 donated in past month Federal judge upholds habitat
protections for green sturgeon “The green sturgeon needs all the
help it can get,” said Emily Jeffers, an attorney with the
Center for Biological Diversity. “Today’s ruling gives this
prehistoric fish a fighting chance at recovery.” Federal judge
upholds habitat protections for green sturgeon by Dan Bacher
Efforts to restore a prehistoric fish, the green sturgeon,
received a big boost with a court ruling on Friday, November 30.
A federal judge upheld the designation of 8.6 million acres of
critical habitat for the threatened green sturgeon in
California, Oregon and Washington, including the sturgeon's only
remaining spawning habitat in the Sacramento River. U.S.
District Judge Phyllis Hamilton of Oakland ruled that the
National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) properly considered
potential economic impacts before designating the waters as
critical habitat for the fish in October 2009. The Pacific Legal
Foundation in March 2011 filed a lawsuit on behalf