Biodiversity Legal Foundation v. Norton

MEMORANDUM OPINION Granting the Plaintiffs’ Motion to Compel Production of the Administrative Record

URBINA, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

The Cape Sable seaside sparrow is one of the most imperiled songbirds in the United States. First listed as an endan gered species in 1967, the sparrow lives in southern Florida’s “marl prairie,” a habitat within the Everglades National Park and the Big Cypress National Preserve. In the last two decades, flood control projects in South Florida have disrupted the natural hydrology of the Everglades, all but decimating the western Florida population of the…