Rocky Mountain Wild v. Walsh

ORDER VACATING ADMINISTRATIVE ACTION AND REQUIRING MEET-AND-CONFER BETWEEN THE PARTIES

William J. Martinez, United States District Judge

In this lawsuit, various conservation organizations (“Plaintiffs”) challenge a decision by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (“FWS”) not to list two flowers as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”), 16 U.S.C. §§ 1531 et seq. (ECF No. 1.) Those flowers are the Graham’s beardtongue (Penstemon grahamii) and White River *1238beardtongue (P. scariosus var. albifluvis) (together, “beardtongues"). These beard-tongues are endemic to…