Conservation groups file lawsuit challenging commercial marina in Idaho
Trestle Creek is one of the most important bull trout spawning streams in the Pend Oreille Basin. (File photo courtesy of Idaho Department of Fish and Game)
The Center for Biological Diversity and the Idaho Conservation League filed a lawsuit earlier this month challenging a commercial marina and luxury housing development project located near Lake Pend Oreille and Sandpoint, Idaho.
In a lawsuit filed Dec. 18 in U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho, the conservation groups argue that the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Army Corps of Engineers did not take into account the impact the Idaho Club Lakeside Marina Development would have on bull trout, which are a species threatened with extinction under the Endangered Species Act.
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