Judge Rules for Caribou, Against Feds

BOISE (CN) – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service cannot use Canadian land to claim that it\’s providing enough habitat for endangered caribou, a federal judge ruled Monday.
U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge said Fish and Wildlife must reopen its final rule for designated caribou habitat for public comment.
The Center for Biological Diversity led a lawsuit filed by several environmental groups against the federal agency, challenging its 2012 final rule designating more than 30,000 acres in Washington and Idaho as critical habitat for the southern Selkirk Mountains population of woodland caribou, also known as the Selkirk Mountain Caribou.