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According to documents reviewed by The Guardian, one of the Pacific Legal Foundation's top lawyers, Jonathan Wood, met with Interior Department Solicitor and former Koch brothers adviser Daniel Jorjani to discuss changes to the Endangered Species Act just months before the department rolled out sweeping changes to how the law would be enforced. The Pacific Legal Foundation, a nonprofit firm, has received major donations from dozens of anti-conservation donors, including the Koch brothers, to lobby the Interior Department to roll back regulations such as the Endangered Species Act and other bedrock conservation laws.
In a press release, Woods and the Pacific Legal Foundation took credit for Interior's recent decision to weaken the ESA, claiming the changes would help species recover. Based on recent tax records, the firm is working on more than 15 cases to weaken federal wildlife protections for numerous species on behalf of Western special interests and landowners.
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The use on park roads of OHVs … poses a significant risk to park resources and values which cannot be appropriately mitigated, and which cannot be sustained without causing unacceptable impacts. The use of such vehicles is, therefore, not consistent with the protection of the parks and monuments.”
