A federal judge handed a victory to conservationists Wednesday, finding the Trump administration’s plan to boost energy development, mining and construction in greater sage grouse habitat should be halted while the two sides argue the merits.
Read moreThe Trump administration formally adopted revisions to land-use plans finalized in 2015 after years of fractious debate between states and the feds, revisions environmentalists say gut protections for the greater sage grouse and other species.
Read moreWednesday saw another chapter added to the acrimonious saga of the sage grouse as a coalition of environmental groups filed suit in Idaho over recent amendments to land use plans in seven western states.
Read moreThe Trump administration’s final land-use plans for seven Western states ease restrictions on mining and drilling, which critics say will further encroach on the habitat of an iconic bird species already in decline.
Read moreThe Native Ecosystems Council brought a federal complaint against Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke for authorizing livestock grazing, sagebrush burning and conifer removal across vast public landscapes in southwest Montana that provide habitat for the protected sage grouse.
Read moreA federal judge has halted the Trump administration’s updated policy on public participation in the process by which the Bureau of Land Management decides whether to grant oil and gas leases in habitat of the greater sage grouse.
Read moreIn 2015, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decided the sage grouse didn’t merit endangered species status—but on Tuesday, a federal judge disagreed.
Read moreThe greater sage grouse is once again at the center of a heated land-use dispute, pitting environmentalists against industry representatives seeking to develop natural resources.
Read moreA federal judge said he will likely overturn the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s withdrawal of the bistate sage grouse from a list of threatened species.
Read moreThe Department of Interior is poised to overhaul the management plans of sage grouse habitat in 10 different states, a move that figures to have dramatic implications for land-use decisions in the American West.
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CARSON CITY, Nev. (CN) – Local agencies in 10 states will have greater influence over federal management plans for the
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Nevada counties, miners and ranchers split a decision with environmentalists in a long-running battle with the federal and state governments over the protected sage grouse and its habitat — this time in Nevada.
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The federal government has announced plans to prohibit mineral exploration on roughly 10 million acres to protect sage grouse, though what the incoming Trump administration will do with the plans remains to be seen.
Read moreIn March, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell traveled to the remote southeast corner of Oregon to praise locals for sticking to a collaborative process that brought ranchers, environmentalists and the government together to forge a land use plan that everyone could agree on. However, Jewell’s rejection of a related collaborative plan is now the subject of lawsuit from a local group that helped create it.
Read moreOil mogul Jack Grynberg claims the Bureau of Land Management illegally denied him and his company Gadeco a permit to drill on public land because it might hurt sage grouse habitat, in Federal Court.
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