Opinion ID: 779502
Heading Depth: 5
Heading Rank: 1

Heading: Irreparable Injury And Inadequacy Of Legal Remedy

Text: 89 During the course of this protracted litigation, the district court repeatedly noted the ecological harms caused by cattle grazing without adequate protective measures. The BLM's own studies, entered into the record before the district court, document environmental harm caused by cattle grazing without adequate protective measures over a fifteen year period. The record therefore supports the likelihood of continued injury absent adequate protective measures. If such [environmental] injury is sufficiently likely, therefore, the balance of harms will usually favor the issuance of an injunction to protect the environment. Amoco, 480 U.S. at 545, 107 S.Ct. 1396. Environmental injury of long duration, here ongoing for at least fifteen years and expected for at least another six years until the required studies are completed, is irreparable. Id. There is no remedy at law that would protect the environment during the period the interim protective measures have been ordered. 90