Marbled Murrelets Win in Court

Marbled murrelets, the ocean-going bird that was once at the heart of the showdown with the Pacific Lumber Company over Headwaters Forest, are back in court in Oregon. Nick Cady of Cascadia Wildlands joins Gang Green to discuss their recent victory protecting the large, old trees that murrelets need to survive. And there is a Humboldt connection: local biologists testified on behalf of the environmental plaintiffs, establishing that the proposed logging would violate the federal Endangered Species Act. Read the decision for yourself here.Photo Credit: Marbled Murrelet Habitat, Aaron Barna, USFWS Pacific; edited with an image of flying marbled murrelet. Support the show