The Michigan DNR’s attempt to authorize a bobcat trapping season has been approved by the Michigan Court of Appeals, reversing a lower court judge that had enjoined the rule:
Michigan Bear Hunters v. Michigan Natural Resources Commission [Mich. Ct. App.]
From the Phildadelphia Inquirer this week:
Protection money
KWAMALASAMUTU, Suriname – The rain forest here is so dense and this village so isolated that when Russell Mittermeier arrived by bush plane, it seemed for a moment like a step back into an era before worries about global warming.
From the Peninsula Daily News:
By Jim Casey, Peninsula Daily News
NEAH BAY – The five members of the Makah tribe accused of illegally killing a whale will go to trial in tribal court Jan. 22.
The Harvard Environmental Law Review published a case note on the Trail Smelter case, “Pakootas v. Teck Cominco Metals, Ltd.“ The Supreme Court will decide shortly whether or not the hear the case, though the Solicitor General has argued in favor of a denial of cert. The case involves water pollution of tribal waters at Colville by a Canadian smelter.
Mary Ann King published “Co-Management or Contracting? Agreements Between Native American Tribes and the U.S. National Park Service Pursuant to the 1994 Tribal Self-Governance Act” in the Harvard Environmental Law Review.
From the introduction:
From the LA Times.
Some of the materials in the case being argued today before the Ninth Circuit as discussed in the NYTs today (see our previous post) are here:
From the NYTs:
Damon Winter/The New York Times
A bone from a Bowhead whale skull rests on the arctic shore outside of Barrow as monument to the defining role that whaling plays for this coastal community.
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