[Carry_Okie]

NHI (in Berkeley, CA -C_O) is a non-governmental, non-profit organization founded in 1989 by a group of experienced conservation lawyers and scientists who foresaw the need for a toolkit for the next era of environmental problem-solving: where the technical challenges are more complex, the solutions more elusive, the economics more central, the ramifications more global, and the conventional pathways less efficacious.

LOL. It's a "public interest" law firm.

I found the dirty fingerprints of the NRDC with these guys here, with over 1,200 Google hits on "National Heritage Institute" +NRDC, most of it involving the Delta. They were definitely in on the lawsuits to list the Delta Smelt and Split-tail. My guess is that they handle special applications and "lawsuit surge."

[calcowgirl]

Thanks for the intel. I hadn’t yet googled it. No suprise.