In all probability, the delisting of the grizzly bear will be challenged by numerous eco-elite groups in Federal District Court in Washington, D.C. I am sure that the fundraising letters from these groups are already going out with this announcement by the USFWS. The precedent for having ESA lawsuits heard in Federal District Court in D.C. was previously established in the last Wyoming and Great Lakes wolf cases. The eco-elites will be fighting over whether D.C. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson or Judge Beryl Howell get to substitute their vast knowledge of the grizzly bear for the science put forth by the USFWS and others. Remember, Washington D.C. is now the center of the universe in this country.
The ESA is broken. The EAJA provides a real incentive encouraging litigation by the eco-elites. Both laws need some serious changes. That will never happen because there is too much money involved in the process. After the courts relist the grizzly bear, various members of the House or Senate will introduce bills, and amendments to bills, seeking to delist the grizzly bear. They won't pass, or even be voted on, but will make it look like the politicians involved are actually doing something.
I would like to be wrong about all this, but I don't think I am. Let the games begin.
just sayin...mh