Stepping up to protect Sierra Nevada red fox, other wildlife from motorized winter travel

WildEarth Guardians and the California Wilderness Coalition sought to intervene in an October 2021 lawsuit in the Eastern District of California federal district court brought by snowmobiling groups objecting to the agency’s decision to place limits on over-snow vehicle use on the national forest in northern California. The two conservation groups intervened to defend the Forest Service’s winter travel plan for the Stanislaus National Forest in part, but also allege the plan does not go far enough to protect vulnerable winter wildlife. The groups allege the Forest Service failed to consider protections for imperiled wildlife when it designated motorized winter recreation trails and use areas on the Stanislaus.

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