endangered species

California Supreme Court Upholds Suction Mining Moratorium

California Supreme Court Upholds Suction Mining Moratorium On Monday, the California Supreme Court upheld California’s moratorium on suction dredging for gold. Suction dredging is a small-scale mining practice in which matter is removed from the bottom of waterways, minerals are extracted, and the residue is returned to the water. In 2009, the California state legislature […]

When Will Affordable Housing Advocates Push For More Supply, Fewer Rules?

When Will Affordable Housing Advocates Push For More Supply, Fewer Rules? A Forbes magazine article highlighted what is perhaps the largest affordable housing solution that everyone should know, but no one talks about–especially here in California: If you increase the supply of something, the cost goes down.  Hence, if home prices are too high, increase […]

Mitchell Chadwick Helps Win Approval of Largest Mitigation Bank in California

Mitchell Chadwick Helps Win Approval of Largest Mitigation Bank in California Mitchell Chadwick LLP, working with Land Veritas, owner of the Petersen Ranch Mitigation Bank and WRA, Inc. are pleased to announce that the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board, Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and the California Department of […]

CA Court of Appeal: Mitigation Bank “Highest and Best Use” In Eminent Domain

California Court of Appeal Decision Leaves Room for Mitigation Bank as a “Highest and Best Use” for Eminent Domain Purposes In County of Santa Barbara v. Double H Properties, LLC, the Court of Appeal for the Second District considered whether the trial court properly excluded evidence indicating that a condemned piece of property was worth […]

Federal Government Hopes to End Idaho’s Challenge to Sage Grouse Plan

Federal Government Hopes to End Idaho’s Challenge to Sage Grouse Plan The U.S. government recently asked a federal judge to toss Idaho’s challenge to the Department of Interior’s (“DOI”) measures designed to protect the habitat and support the population of the greater sage grouse. Idaho has filed suit challenging the DOI’s land-use plan amendments, final […]

Join Us At The 2016 Mining & Land Resources Institute

2016 Mining and Land Resources Institute Event Details / Conference Website HERE. Event type: Conference Date: March 10th and 11th Speaker: Braiden Chadwick and Chris Powell Topic: 2015-2016 Mining and Public Lands Update Venue: Atlantis Casino Resort Spa Address: 3700 S Virginia St, Reno, NV 89502 Mitchell Chadwick LLP partner, G. Braiden Chadwick, will be speaking […]

California Supreme Court to Reconsider Newhall Decision?

Newhall Land and Farming Company Petitions California Supreme Court to Reconsider Newhall Decision The Newhall Land and Farming Company has petitioned the California Supreme Court to reconsider its November 30, 2015 decision blocking a mixed-use residential project in Los Angeles County. Newhall argues that the Court’s decision was based on incorrect legal reasoning and a […]

Modoc Sucker Removed from Endangered List

Modoc Sucker Removed from Endangered List   After nearly thirty years of recovery efforts, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (“FWS”) announced the removal of the Modoc sucker from protection under the Endangered Species Act on December 7, 2015.   A small fish native to the Upper Pit River Watershed in southern Oregon and northeastern […]

Fish Before People: Environmentalists sue over Sacramento River and Shasta Dam

Fish Before People: Environmentalists sue over Sacramento River and Shasta Dam A cadre of environmental groups filed a lawsuit yesterday against the Interior Department for allegedly mismanaging California’s water supplies to the detriment of salmon. The Natural Resources Defense Council and other groups argue that the Bureau of Reclamation has violated the Endangered Species Act […]

No ESA Listing For Greater Sage-Grouse

No ESA Listing For Greater Sage-Grouse The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said today that the greater sage grouse does not require protection under the Endangered Species Act.  Interior Secretary Sally Jewell said that thanks to an “unprecedented” conservation effort by “dozens of partners” across the 11-state range of the sage grouse, a listing of threatened or […]

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