Monique Merrill(CN) — Conservationists are celebrating after a federal judge on Wednesday ruled the U.S. Forest Service violated federal law when it authorized expanded livestock grazing in grizzly bear habitat outside of Yellowstone National Park in Montana. That plan authorized expanded commercial livestock grazing leases on six allotments of land in the Custer-Gallatin National Forest’s Absaroka Mountains in south central Montana. The nine conservation groups that sued the Forest Service, the U.S. Molloy wrote that the Forest Service can’t ignore habitat connectivity and emphasized omitting the issue entirely is different from explaining why grazing wouldn’t harm it. But, in a small win for the Forest Service, Molloy found that it properly described the baseline condition for grizzly bears.