They have been caught at this dozens of times, and there is never any prosecution or consequences. They are even allowed to continue presenting "studies" in court after perjury.
A favorite trick is to transplant a food plant for an endangered species (particularly insects) as they tend not to wander away, and the plants are similarly protected.
I think that they transplanted a pocket gopher to a county in SW Wa and have been using it to stop development on private property.
I don’t know why the property owners don’t just spread insecticide and get rid of the food that the gophers eat. It’s a very easy solution.
We had a young bear on our property when we first started to clear the land. The loggers and the neighbors saw it walking down the street. The problem was there were no adult bears in the area. It seems cruel to drop off a young bear in an area where there are no other bears and I believe that is what happened.