PORTLAND, Ore. – Western Watersheds Project, a nonprofit environmental group, has launched a legal challenge to a management plan for five National Wildlife Refuges in the Klamath Basin of Oregon […]
Lawsuit Filed to Stop New Livestock Fencing in Sage-Grouse Habitat
Boise, IDAHO – Today, Western Watersheds Project filed a lawsuit against the Bureau of Land Management in Nevada over its approval of new fences in important sage-grouse habitat on the […]
Cattle Grazing Increases Raven Populations that Prey on Sage grouse.
An important study released today concludes that the presence of cattle in important sage grouse habitats increases the number of ravens that prey on sage grouse and their nests by […]
Lawsuit Fights Special Interest Loopholes in Greater Sage-Grouse Plans
Conservation Groups seek to restore science-based habitat protections on public lands BOISE, Idaho— Conservation groups today filed a lawsuit over more than a dozen greater sage- grouse plans produced by federal agencies that […]
A Bird’s Eye View of the 2016 Budget: Sage-grouse and the Federal Spending Bill
When President Obama signs the 2016 Omnibus budget bill as he’s expected to do later this week, he’ll be signing off on a lot more than hard-fought spending agreements. In […]
Soda Fire Recovery, the First Test of New Sage-grouse Amendments, Already a Failure.
BLM Plans to Turn Landscape into a Cattle Forage Zone. The highly vaunted, but meaningless, land management plans to save sage grouse are being put to the test with the […]
Ely BLM Withdraws Decision to Poison, Crush and Chop Sage-grouse Habitat
White Pine County, Nev. – A Western Watersheds Project appeal forced the Ely BLM to withdraw a recent decision to destroy Wyoming big sagebrush, black sage, and pinyon-juniper communities across […]
Defense Bill Threatens Sage Grouse With Free Pass for Livestock on Public Lands (updated)
WASHINGTON — The National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) soon to be considered by the U.S. House of Representatives contains several provisions that would undermine current efforts to protect greater sage […]