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Sage Grouse

  • Wyoming wind project offers grouse conservation plan

    Ken Cole

    1000 turbine wind farm proposed in Wyoming “Core” Sage Grouse Habitat It seems the Wyoming Governor’s “core” sage grouse habitat mapping doesn’t mean much. Removal of fencing or marking it with reflectors doesn’t get around the fact that there will be gigantic wind turbines in the middle of sage grouse habitat. Sage grouse don’t like…

  • Federal Agencies Sign Agreement to Protect Sage-Grouse Habitat

    Ken Cole

    But they continue to ignore the biggest threat to their habitat……….. GRAZING. $16 million in handouts for this year alone. The NRCS is handing out more money to ranchers for “habitat conservation” or “habitat improvement” projects that maintain grazing on public lands. There are some projects such as fence removal that will be funded but…

  • Idaho Statesman's opinion is save the sage grouse

    Ralph Maughan

    [Statesman’s] View: It’s up to us: Act now to save an icon of the West- Well this is good to hear, but the only thing that will save the grouse is to conserve the intact, already healthy sagebrush areas and to create some new ones. Other measures might help a little, but could well be…

  • 9th Circuit overturns Molloy's grazing decision on Antelope Basin

    Ralph Maughan

    Good news for a pretty, but cattle hammered basin on the Idaho/Montana border- Although those who only think about wolves suppose Federal Judge Molloy surely sides with conservation groups, he didn’t on this decision. Fortunately the 9th Circuit overturned his approval of a bad Forest Service grazing plan. Here is the story in the Montana…

  • Western Watersheds Project Files Legal Challenge To Denial of Endangered Species Act Protections for Greater Sage-Grouse

    Ken Cole

    For immediate release – March 8, 2010 Contact: Jon Marvel, Executive Director, Western Watersheds Project – 208-788-2290 Laird Lucas, Executive Director, Advocates for the West – 208-870-7621 In response to the announcement on Friday March 5 by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar that the listing of greater sage-grouse and two of its distinct population…

  • Nevada wildlife chief questions sage grouse decision

    Ken Cole

    More worried about protecting industry than wildlife. The Mono Basin sage grouse received a higher priority rating, a 3 on a scale of 1-12, as a candidate species than the larger populations elsewhere which received an 8 rating. Unbelievably the Chief of the Nevada Division of wildlife expressed greater concern about the industries that would…

  • Sage Grouse & WWP May Be Headed Back to Court !?

    Ken Cole

    ~ Jon Marvel Friends, Today, in response to successful litigation brought by Western Watersheds Project and our attorneys at Advocates For The West, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced Greater Sage Grouse would not be protected by listing the species under the protections of the Endangered Species Act. The Secretary did acknowledge that listing…

  • Interior: Grouse listing warranted but precluded

    Ken Cole

    Interior: Grouse listing warranted but precluded By MEAD GRUVER (AP)

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