California Court of Appeal
Cal. Forestry Ass'n v. Cal. Fish & Game Comm'n, C053866
Challenge to trial court's ruling upholding the listing of two coho salmon evolutionarily significant units as endangered and threatened under the California Endangered Species Act is denied as the term "species or subspecies" includes "evolutionarily significant units," making those units entitled to protection under the CESA. Moreover, the term "range" refers to a species' California range only.
Appellate Information
- Decided 11/20/2007
- Published 11/20/2007
Judges
- ROBIE, J.
Court
- California Court of Appeal
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Pacific Legal Foundation, James S. Burling and Damien M. Schiff, Sacramento, for Plaintiffs and Appellants.
- For Appellees:
- Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Tom Greene, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Mary E. Hackenbracht, Senior Assistant Attorney General, Sara J. Russell, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Tara L. Mueller and Matthew J. Goldman, Deputy Attorneys General, for Defendants and Respondents., Kenyon Yeates, J. William Yeates, Keith G. Wagner and Jason R. Flanders, Sacramento, for Intervenors and Respondents.