SERVICE FILES COURT DECLARATION - Projects on millions of federal acres could be affected

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) will oppose a motion filed by the Center for Biological Diversity (Center) designed to stop a variety of federal projects, including many fuel reduction tasks, which would affect the threatened Mexican spotted owl and its habitat in Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Utah.

The Service filed a declaration in the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona today that explains the anticipated impact of the Center