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Sage Grouse

  • Groups target Nevada predators

    Ken Cole

    Mountain lions, coyotes, badgers, skunks and ravens will all be targeted in an effort to improve deer and sage grouse survival using $866,000 from the Nevada Department of Wildlife’s Heritage fund. Rather than tackle the main issues related to sage grouse declines, livestock grazing, sagebrush killing projects, and energy developments, groups in Nevada are going…

  • Report: Barbed Wire Fences Deadly To Sage Grouse

    Brian Ertz

    The impact to sage grouse numbers appears to be very large The thousands and thousands of miles of barbed wire fence chopping up lands throughout the west is bad for wildlife for many reasons. Now, the impact that this installation for livestock production on public lands has to sage grouse is demonstrated in a study…

  • Scenic BLM roadless area next to Mt. Borah draws Western Watersheds lawsuit

    Ralph Maughan

    Western Watersheds Project sues BLM to protect the Burnt Creek roadless area from livestock abuse- Ever since I returned to Idaho in 1971, one place I wanted to see was Burnt Creek in the high colorful foothills on the east side of the Lost River Range. It has been selected as a wilderness study area…

  • Federal sage grouse listing may go to 2010

    Ken Cole

    Idaho population continues to plummet. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has received more time to make their decision about whether the greater sage grouse will be listed as a endangered or threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. If listing occurs there could be profound changes in how vast areas of public lands are…

  • A thousand or so wind turbines south of Rawlins, Wyoming?

    Ralph Maughan

    Anshutz plans 4-6 billon dollar development- Anschutz Corp. plans masssive Wyoming wind farm. By Matt Joyce. AP. Forbes. About 40 other remote wind projects are being considered. This single project would cover over 150 square miles. – – – – – – Related: Biologists study turbines’ effect on grouse. Billings Gazette. AP 5-26. For comparison:…

  • Saving Sage Grouse: SLT editorial

    Ralph Maughan

    Leading Utah newspaper praises Western Watershed’s massive lawsuit- Saving sage grouse. Judge is right to allow lawsuit. Tribune Editorial

  • Major lawsuit by Western Watersheds Project over sage grouse

    Ralph Maughan

    25-million acres of public land said operating under illegal BLM plans- Conservationists decry ranching impact on sage grouse populations. By Scott Sonner. Associated Press Writer Needless to say, this is no small piece of litigation. Thanks to Advocates for the West for permission to use the map.

  • WWP win in Washington state underscores politicized wildlife management

    Brian Ertz

    Thurston County Superior Court has ruled in favor of Dr. Steve Herman and Western Watersheds Project deciding that the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) violated the State Environmental Protection Act when issuing grazing permits on its state wildlife areas without undergoing environmental analysis.  The state and Washington Cattleman’s Association had claimed that such…

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