The Weyerhaeuser Company, Petitioner
Timothy S. Bishop, Counsel of Record
The Weyerhaeuser Company, a multinational timber business, owns and leases forested land in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, for lumber production. In 2012, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) designated 1,544 acres of this area as “critical habitat” for the dusky gopher frog, a species it had determined in 2001 was at risk of extinction and required protection under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA). “Unit 1,” as it was labeled, had several seasonal ponds roughly 50 miles from the current frog habitat that the FWS determined could someday become a new home for the species. In 2013, Weyerhaeuser…
