spectr17
10-16-2006, 08:46 PM
SCI and Minnesota Outdoor Heritage Alliance Will Defend Trapping in Minnesota
</span><span style="font-family:Arial">Safari Club International and the Minnesota Outdoor Heritage Alliance will be able to help defend against a lawsuit that challenges Minnesota's trapping program in Canada lynx habitat. A Minnesota federal court has just approved SCI and MOHA's request to participate as "amici curiae" (friends of the court) and to file legal briefs in the case. SCI and MOHA will argue against both finding that the trapping program "takes" (defined under the ESA as to harm or kill) the Canada Lynx and forcing the State to end or alter the trapping program in areas where the lynx reside, primarily in northeast Minnesota. SCI and MOHA have also filed papers to gain amici status in a related case in the same Court, this one challenging Minnesota's trapping program as allowing "take" of Canada lynx, bald eagle, and gray wolf, species found throughout Minnesota.
</span><span style="font-family:Arial">Safari Club International and the Minnesota Outdoor Heritage Alliance will be able to help defend against a lawsuit that challenges Minnesota's trapping program in Canada lynx habitat. A Minnesota federal court has just approved SCI and MOHA's request to participate as "amici curiae" (friends of the court) and to file legal briefs in the case. SCI and MOHA will argue against both finding that the trapping program "takes" (defined under the ESA as to harm or kill) the Canada Lynx and forcing the State to end or alter the trapping program in areas where the lynx reside, primarily in northeast Minnesota. SCI and MOHA have also filed papers to gain amici status in a related case in the same Court, this one challenging Minnesota's trapping program as allowing "take" of Canada lynx, bald eagle, and gray wolf, species found throughout Minnesota.