Eighty environmental groups have asked U.S. House and Senate leaders to stop adopting budget riders that prevent the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from writing or issuing Endangered Species Act protections for greater sage grouse.
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State unveils new grouse rules as feds again ease protections
Wyoming adopts habitat mitigation rules as Trump’s BLM, thwarted by courts, issues second stab at greater sage grouse plan rewrite.
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Fed’s version of sage grouse conservation rings hollow
Despite Wyoming’s continued leadership, new federal policies threaten to unravel the years of collaboration, compromise and conservation successes that have kept the iconic bird from endangered status.
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Bighorn Forest plan for weeds, sagebrush sparks battle
Conflict over herbicides, aerial spraying, sagebrush and larkspur removal pits conservationists against stock grazers and federal land managers.
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Sage grouse leader: drilling impact ‘pretty minimal’
Budd says rig activity is not shifting to core habitat, despite spikes in leases and permits. The rate of drilling there, however, has doubled.
