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destructive overgrazing and damage to animal habit on his 21,500-acre allotment in a national forest. Chilton's lawyers provided wider angle photos of the same scenery, revealing healthy trees and greenspaces located in the same vistas. What had allegedly been presented by CBD as barren images caused by overgrazing were shown to be campsite areas used by hunters, and a parking lot used for an annual festival. The jury was persuaded the CBD photos had been misleading. Only $ 100,000 of the judgment was for actual harm inflicted on
Chilton and his cattle company. The jury tacked on $ 500,000 in punitive damages, which a newspaper account said was the jury's intent to "punish and deter others from similar libel." CBD, asserting the representations were protected under the First Amendment, unsuccessfully tried to have the decision appealed and lost, forcing CBD and its insurance company to pay the judgment.
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areas" and that owl nests were then given a 100-acre protected area she characterized as "no touch" zones. She implied the CBD co-founders may have been mistaken regarding tree-cutting then occurring in nearby non-protected areas: "other projects did occur and could have included thinning projects to reduce wildland fires, tree plantings or other wildlife projects." The Forest
Service spokeswoman was wrong. Silver had already filed a Petition to List the Mexican Spotted Owl on December 21, 1989, based in part on the fact that at the time 55% of the owls were located in areas the Forest Service had scheduled for cutting. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife concurred that the Forest Service was endangering the owl, listing the owl on March 16, 1993, acknowledging that "here were 316 MTs (61 percent) on lands available for timber harvest..."
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and restoration. Robin Silver is senior staff, co-founder, and a Center board member. He is a retired emergency room physician and a professional wildlife photographer. Peter Galvin is director of programs, co-founder, and a Center board member. Paula
Simmonds is the center's chief development officer. Brendan Cummings is the center's conservation director and attorney. Michael Hudson is chief operating officer for the center. Kassie Siegel is senior counsel and director of CBD's Climate Law Institute.
447:. According to the center, "The lawsuit argues that the regulations violate the Endangered Species Act and did not go through the required public review process. The regulations, first proposed on August 11, were rushed by the Bush administration through an abbreviated process in which more than 300,000 comments from the public were reviewed in 2–3 weeks, and environmental impacts were analyzed in a short and cursory environmental assessment, rather than a fuller
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nest in an old-growth tree", but their discovery was ignored and the Forest
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