SALT LAKE CITY (ABC4) — The Center for Biological Diversity filed a formal notice today of its intent to sue the Trump administration for failing to determine whether the shorebird Wilson’s phalarope should be protected under the Endangered Species Act.

On Wednesday, Author Terry Tempest Williams and local organizations and community members held a rally to announce the federal lawsuit to protect Wilson’s phalarope, a migratory bird species whose fate is linked to the Great Salt Lake.

“By offering Wilson’s phalaropes legal protection under the law, legislators, politicians and business investors will have to find ways of immediately putting water into Great Salt Lake, not according to their timeline of convenience, but the phalaropes’ radius of critical care,” said Tempest Williams.

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