U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Sued in West Virginia for Failure to Designate "Critical Habitat" for Two Species of Crayfish
July 4, 2018
On June 20, 2018, the Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (“USFWS”) in federal court in the Southern District of West Virginia, challenging the agency’s failure to designate “critical habitat” for the Big Sandy crayfish and the Guyandotte River crayfish under the Endangered Species Act. USFWS listed the Big Sandy crayfish as “threatened” and the Guyandotte…