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Canada Lynx Critical Habitat Designation<\/h1>\n

Despite mounting evidence that lynx habitat is more expansive than previously thought, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS)\u00a0announced in\u00a02014 that it would\u00a0exclude all occupied lynx habitat in the Southern Rockies\u2014from southern Wyoming through Colorado and into northern New Mexico\u2014from the species\u2019 critical habitat designation. This decision also excluded important lynx habitat in parts of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and other states in the species\u2019 historic, current, and available range.<\/p>\n

First listed as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act in 2000, lynx are afforded protections from harm, and so is its officially designated critical habitat.\u00a0In the case of lynx, however, USFWS didn’t designate any critical habitat until 2006. That designation was inadequate, and after two successful lawsuits brought by conservationists in 2008 and 2010, a district court in Montana left USFWS’s meager lynx habitat protection in place, but remanded it to the agency for improvement. This resulted in little improvement and inadequate habitat for the lynx to have a fair shot at recovery.<\/p>\n

We took USFWS to court and won. The U.S. District Court for the District of Montana ordered the USFWS to reconsider its decision to exclude the Canada lynx\u2019s entire southern Rocky Mountain range from critical habitat designation. Our victory places this essential lynx habitat back on the table for protection. However, four years after our victory, the USFWS did not lift a finger to comply with the court’s order to reexamine critical habitat designations. In July 2020, we sued the USFWS again over this dereliction of duty. We also won this case, securing hard, legally binding deadlines for USFWS to publish a lynx critical habitat rule, along with frequent progress reports, also legally binding, due to the agency\u2019s long record of negligence and delay on the subject of Canada lynx recovery actions.<\/p>\n

In late 2024, USFWS finalized its Canada lynx recovery plan and proposed designating critical habitat for the species in the southern Rockies for the first time ever. This represents a victory for a lynx population established via reintroduction around the turn of the century. We will continue to work to help this population of Canada lynx and others in the West thrive.<\/p>\n

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