On Saturday, March 3, BFC’s Mike Mease will participate in a panel on protecting Montana’s water and wildlife at the 36th Annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference, at the University of Oregon School of Law. The panel will cover our recent ESA legal victory. PIELC is always an exciting, well-attended event. Please join us if you can!

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Saturday, March 3, 2018
PIELC 36th Annual Public Interest Environmental Law Conference
University of Oregon, School of Law

News from the Front Lines on Protecting Montana’s Water and Wildlife. (EMU 232)

The panel will discuss creative ways that conservation groups in Montana are working to protect wildlife and rivers through grassroots organizing, social media, bureaucratic petitions and lawsuits.

Panelists: Mike Mease, Buffalo Field Campaign; Michael Harris, Wildlife Law Program, Friends of Animals; John Meyer, Cottonwood Environmental Law Center; Josh Seckinger, Cottonwood Environmental Law Center.

The panel will cover the significant legal victory we won in Washington D.C. in our petition to list Yellowstone bison as an endangered species. Check out U.S. District Court Judge Christopher R. Cooper’s decision (PDF).

Learn more about what’s happening at the 2018 Public Interest Environmental Law Conference.