“When a company chooses to operate in the epicenter of key habitat for a threatened species, it must take some responsibility to adapt practices to minimize its impacts on these animals."
Brookings Register | Wildlife conservation groups sue over lack of plan for railroad to reduce grizzly bear deaths in Montana brookingsregister.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from brookingsregister.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Two wildlife conservation groups have filed a lawsuit against BNSF Railway over delays in finalizing a plan to reduce the number of federally protected grizzly bears that are killed by trains in northwestern Montana and northern Idaho.
The lawsuit filed Thursday argues BNSF Railway and other railroads that use their tracks have been killing grizzly bears without an "incidental take permit" for decades. Such permits allow a certain number of protected animals to be killed in exchange for efforts to try to reduce the number of deaths. BNSF Railway says it has already taken many of the steps it proposes in its permit, such as fencing and removing dead wildlife and cattle from the tracks.
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