Arizona Cattle Growers' Association v. United States Fish And Wildlife

How courts have described this case

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• finding the Fish and Wildlife Service’s issuance of an incidental- take statement arbitrary and capricious because the evidence linking cattle grazing to an effect on the razorback sucker was too speculative and “woefully insufficient”
• \We are deferential to the agency's expertise in situations ... where `resolution of the dispute involves primarily issues of fact.'\
• \[T]he use of ecological conditions as a surrogate for defining the amount or extent of incidental take is reasonable so long as these conditions are linked to the take of a protected species.\
• incidental take statement must provide some way to measure effects and determine whether the action is complying with the incidental take limit
• incidental take proxy must be based on data that links changes in habitat characteristics or other metric to take of listed species
• “[T]he. use of ecological conditions as a surrogate for defining the amount or extent of incidental take is reasonable so long as these conditions are linked to the take of a protected species.”

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