Opinion ID: 718270
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Sufficiency of the evidence of future harm.

Text: 55 Evidence was presented in the district court that there were approximately 100 detections of marbled murrelets at Owl Creek, throughout the birds' breeding season, for a period of three consecutive years, including many instances of occupied behavior. Evidence of occupied nesting behavior was also provided by the PSG Protocol. In addition, several experts testified to the probability of the murrelets' nesting in Owl Creek, and that implementation of Pacific Lumber's harvesting plan would likely harm marbled murrelets by impairing their breeding and increasing the likelihood of attack by predators on the adult murrelets as well as the young. 56 We conclude there was sufficient evidence to support the district court's findings. The district court did not clearly err in finding marbled murrelets were nesting in Owl Creek and that there was a reasonable certainty of imminent harm to them from Pacific Lumber's intended logging operation. 5 III