January 06, 2017
A Washington, D.C., federal judge on Thursday tossed Idaho's challenge to the U.S. Department of Interior and Department of Agriculture's plan to protect the greater sage grouse in the state, ruling Gov. Butch Otter failed to identify an injury that would give him grounds to sue.
May 09, 2016
The federal government and conservation groups supporting its decision to approve land management plans that emphasize protections for the greater sage grouse further urged a federal judge Friday to end Idaho's legal challenge to the plans, saying the state lacks standing.
March 25, 2016
The federal government on Friday asked a D.C. federal judge to toss Idaho's challenge to the U.S. Department of the Interior's plan to conserve habitat and bolster the population of the greater sage grouse.
March 09, 2016
Ranching groups on Tuesday threw their weight behind Idaho's challenge to new federal protections for greater sage-grouse habitat, saying "draconian" restrictions on cattle grazing were quietly added after the public comment period had closed.
September 25, 2015
The federal government was hit Friday with a lawsuit from the state of Idaho over the designation of areas within the Great Basin as environmentally critical to the greater sage-grouse, the second such suit filed in as many days.