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Nature of Suit Code: 893
Nature of Suit: Environmental Matters
Cause of Action: 42:4321 Review of Agency Action-Environment

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SEVENTH JOINT STATUS REPORT 1

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Attorneys for Defendants

IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT

EASTERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA

CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY; 

DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE; and LOS 

PADRES FORESTWATCH,

Plaintiffs,

v.

RANDY MOORE, Pacific Southwest Regional 

Forester; BOB BAIRD, Forest Supervisor, Los 

Padres National Forest; THOMAS TIDWELL, 

Chief, USDA Forest Service; and USDA Forest 

Service,

Defendants.

Case No. 2:07-cv-00770 TLN KJN

SEVENTH JOINT STATUS REPORT; 

REQUEST TO REINSTATE STAY; AND 

PROPOSED ORDER

The parties hereby submit the following joint status report to inform the Court of a development 

that affects the need for plaintiffs’ motion to amend, which was to be filed by December 11, 2016. 

On November 18, 2016, the U.S. Forest Service informed the United States Department of the 

Interior Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) that, as described in its November 18, 2016 letter to the Bureau 

of Land Management (BLM), the Forest Service had “chosen to indefinitely extend its voluntary stay on 

all new oil and gas leasing, and to supplement the 2005 Final Environmental Impact Statement and

Record of Decision for Oil and Gas Leasing on the Los Padres National Forest.” Copies of the Forest 

Service’s November 18, 2016 letters to FWS and BLM are attached.

PHILLIP A. TALBERT

United States Attorney

LYNN TRINKA ERNCE

Assistant United States Attorney

501 I Street, Suite 10-100

Sacramento, California 95814

Telephone: (916) 554-2720

Facsimile: (916) 554-2900

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SEVENTH JOINT STATUS REPORT 2

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In a November 30, 2016 letter to the Forest Service FWS stated that, in light of these 

developments, it was withdrawing its August 5, 2016 biological opinion. A copy of the November 30, 

2016 letter is attached. 

Based on the foregoing, the parties believe that a reinstatement of the earlier stay in this case is 

appropriate pending issuance of a new biological opinion and/or issuance of a new or amended decision 

from the Forest Service. 

Accordingly, the parties jointly request that the prior stay be reinstated and that the briefing 

schedule on plaintiffs’ motion to amend be vacated.

Respectfully Submitted,

Dated: December 2, 2016 PHILLIP A. TALBERT

United States Attorney

 By: /s/ Lynn Trinka Ernce 

LYNN TRINKA ERNCE

Assistant United States Attorney

Dated: December 2, 2016 CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY, 

DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE and 

LOS PADRES FORESTWATCH

 By: /s/ Lisa T. Belenky 

LISA T. BELENKY

Attorneys for Plaintiffs

ORDER

IT IS SO ORDERED.

Dated: December 5, 2016 

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