Jobe, I believe that the blame for this endless deja-vu of litigation challenging every BLM Planning decision can be laid squarely on the door step of the BLM and the administrative policy wonks that pull thier strings. The WEMO plan was formulated in direct violation of myriad existing federal laws and policies, including NEPA, Presidential Executive Orders, and Endangered species legislation. BLM has been responsible for observing and upholding all of these laws / policies from inception, and has no excuse for writing managment plans that violate them. Had BLM written the WEMO plan in compliance with existing law and policy, the plan would be far more difficult to challenge in court.

To get to the root of the problem, we (collective we) need to ask WHY federal DOI administrators are permitted again and again to write land management plan and policy that is in violation of federal law and policy. There is no legitimate excuse.

desert dude