Okay, wait for the lawsuit...

[Grumpy]

For Immediate Release, October 24, 2012
Contact: Noah Greenwald, Center for Biological Diversity, (503) 484-7495
Kristen Boyles, Earthjustice, (206) 343-7340 x1033
Bob Sallinger, Portland Audubon, (503) 292-9501 x110

Obama Administration Proposes to Strip Nearly 4 Million Acres of
Protected Habitat From Threatened Seabird

21 Conservation Groups Call on Administration to Reverse Course,
Save Pacific Northwest's Vanishing Marbled Murrelet

PORTLAND, Ore.— Twenty-one conservation groups sent a letter to the Obama administration today, asking it to withdraw from a recent agreement with the timber industry that, if approved by a federal court, would eliminate protection from 3,887,800 acres of critical habitat for the marbled murrelet until 2018. The federally threatened murrelet — a shy, robin-sized seabird that nests on the wide branches of old-growth trees — has severely declined in the face of logging of Pacific Northwest forests, a trend that continues today due to ongoing logging, according to recent studies.

“Murrelets urgently need more, not less, habitat protection,â€