Tuesday
Jan042011
Judge Orders Grazing Halted on Quarter Million Acres to Protect Steelhead
Tuesday, January 4, 2011 at 12:00AM 
Some good news for steelhead out of Oregon.
Federal judge Ancer Haggerty has barred livestock grazing harmful to endangered steelhead. Haggerty ordered the U.S. Forest Service and National Marine Fisheries Service to reconsider the effects of the federal agencies' grazing plan on native steelhead streams before grazing can resume.
The Malheur National Forest is located in eastern Oregon's Blue Mountains. It includes portions of the Upper John Day, Middle Fork John Day, North Fork John Day and Malheur rivers. The 281-mile long John Day River is the second longest undammed river in the continental United States.
LINK (Via: YubaNet)
Reader Comments (2)
This is great news. We need a judge in Wa to do the same thing, especially noted on the klickitat.
Now a massive bass fish kill needs to happen. Spent a summer on the deschutes as a ranger and watched as the cattlemen took months to repair a fence so that the cows could trash the shoreline as they beat the heat in the river.