A conservation coalition today filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) to challenge the agency’s weak new plan to phase down elk feeding on the Jackson Hole National Elk Refuge, citing the plan’s inadequate response to the urgent threat of a chronic wasting disease outbreak among the Refuge elk population.
Supplemental Feeding Imposes Risk To Wildlife At National Elk Refuge
The USFWS has recently opened up a public comment period for its National Elk Refuge (“NER”) Draft Bison and Elk Management Step-down Plan (“SDP”) and associated Draft Environmental Assessment (“EA”). Yesterday, The National Wildlife Refuge Association submitted their concerns with the SDP along with Defenders of Wildlife, the Sierra Club, and Earth Justice.