Today, conservation groups and a fishing guide filed suit in federal court in San Francisco to challenge the Trump administration’s new interpretation of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) that “harm” to species does not include destroying their habitat. The decision reverses 50 years of bipartisan agreement that protecting species’ habitat is at the heart of the ESA and, without it, many species will go extinct.

The Fix Our Forests Act is poised to undermine critical environmental protections and would have devastating consequences for our forests.

Habitat Conservation Plans (HCPs) are a method via the Endangered Species Act whereby landowners can obtain Incidental Take Permits (ITP)...