The Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for what the groups say is a failure to protect the New Mexico jumping mouse’s habitat from cattle grazing.
The group alleges cattle graze in riparian areas and meadows, harming critical habitat for the mice.
“Cows continue to denude the meadows and trample the streambanks that endangered jumping mice rely on for survival in the Sacramento Mountains,” Robin Silver, cofounder of the Center, said in a statement.
The suit marks the third filed in the past five years, the group said.
