Buffalo Field Campaign v. Bernhardt

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA BUFFALO FIELD CAMPAIGN, et al., Plaintiffs, Civil Action No. 20-798 (RDM) v. MARTHA WILLIAMS,1 et al., Defendants. MEMORANDUM OPINION Every year, millions of people visit Yellowstone National Park to view, among other marvels, the park’s few thousand resident bison. In 2014, Plaintiffs Buffalo Field Campaign and Western Watersheds Project petitioned the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (“Service”) to list the Yellowstone bison as endangered or threatened, pursuant to the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”), 16 U.S.C. § 1533(b)(3)(A). Dkt. 19…