Litigation
Sep. 30, 2008
From the Desert, Lawyer Rises as Fighter for the Polar Bear
Joshua Tree lawyer Kassie Siegel has emerged as the face of the successful effort to get the polar bear listed as a threatened species.
By Jason W. Armstrong
Daily Journal Staff Writer
JOSHUA TREE - Environmental lawyer Kassie Siegel lives in a rustic, energy-efficient house nestled amongst desert cactus and boulders near Joshua Tree National Park. She and her significant other hear coyotes yowling a few feet from their windows at night and see quail dashing across their dirt driveway in the morning.
"We have a lot of bird diversity - a lot of spring migrants," Siegel, 35, said in an in...
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