Schooner Harbor Ventures, Inc. v. United States

OPINION

HORN, Judge.

FINDINGS OF FACT

The Mississippi Sandhill Crane, a nonmigratory subspecies of the sandhill crane, was added to the United States’ List of Endangered Native Fish and Wildlife on June 4, 1973. See 38 Fed.Reg. 14,678 (June 4,1973). In 1975, the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (“FWS”) acquired 1,708 acres to establish the Mississippi Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge (“Refuge”) in Gautier, Mississippi, to protect and manage the Mississippi Sandhill Crane, to protect and preserve unique, wetpine savanna communities for crane habitat and roosting, and to provide…