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Judge: Trump administration illegally withdrew sage grouse listing

May 19, 2022

A federal judge has ruled the Trump administration acted illegally in 2020 when it withdrew an earlier proposal to list as threatened a hen-sized bird found only in the high desert along the California-Nevada line.

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Mining Ban Considered To Protect Bird Species In US West

May 12, 2021

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration says it is considering a ban on new mining on large expanses of public lands in Western states to protect a struggling bird species, the greater sage grouse.

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Judge: Trump's Lifting Of Mining Ban In US West Was Wrong

Feb 12, 2021

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — A federal judge has overturned a Trump administration action that allowed mining and other development on 10 million acres in parts of western states that are considered important for the survival of a struggling bird species.

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Sage Grouse Review Done, But Scant Time For Trump's Changes

Jan 13, 2021

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Trump administration has completed a review of plans to ease protections for a struggling bird species in seven states in the U.S. West, but there's little time to put them into action before President-elect Joe Biden takes office.

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Trump Plans Would Ease Protections For Sage Grouse In West

Nov 20, 2020

SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — The Trump administration announced plans that ease protections for sage grouse in the West, prompting an outcry by critics who say the move paves the way for widespread mining and drilling and ignores a federal court ruling.

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Suit Seeks To Force Listing Of Bistate Grouse On NV-CA Line

Oct 05, 2020

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Conservationists are suing again to try to force the federal listing of a cousin of the greater sage grouse along the California-Nevada line.

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Groups Threaten Suit Over Rare Bird's Fate In Colorado, Utah

Sep 25, 2020

DENVER (AP) — Two wildlife conservation groups say they intend to file a lawsuit contending that several federal agencies are relying on an outdated plan to save a rare bird found only in Colorado and Utah.

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Jubilant Spring: Conservationists Get Good News … With Caveats

Jul 06, 2020

From the sage grouse to Coyote Springs, friends of the land are seeing qualified progress

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Bid To Halt Nevada Oil Drilling In Sage Grouse Habitat

Jun 01, 2020

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Conservationists say the Trump administration's approval of exploratory drilling for oil in sage grouse habitat on federal land in eastern Nevada violates its own protection guidelines.

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Feds Refuse Again To List Bi-State Grouse Along State Line

Mar 31, 2020

RENO, Nev. (AP) — Two years after a U.S. judge ordered the Trump administration to reconsider its refusal to protect sage grouse populations along the California-Nevada line, the U.S.

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Dept. Of Interior Pushes Changes To Western Land Plans That Judge Blocked

Feb 24, 2020
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — U.S.
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Interior Department, States Appeal Sage Grouse Ruling

Dec 18, 2019
The Interior Department, Idaho and Wyoming are appealing a court ruling that halted a Trump administration plan to ease land-use restrictions that protect struggling sage grouse.
 
The notices filed Monday say the agency and states will seek a review by the 9th U.S.
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Sage Grouse Court Order Trims Energy Lease Auction In Nevada

Nov 12, 2019

RENO, Nev. (AP) — U.S. land managers have withdrawn more than 500 square miles of public land from a swath of eastern Nevada where oil and gas drilling leases are set to go to auction.

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Sage Grouse Court Order Trims Energy Lease Auction In Nevada

Nov 11, 2019

RENO, Nev.

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BLM Pulls Acreage From Oil And Gas Auction

Nov 07, 2019

The Bureau of Land Management has pulled more than 332,000 acres from a November 12 oil and gas lease auction in western Nevada in response to a 

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Report: Sage-Grouse Recovery To Cost Millions And Take Years

Nov 04, 2019

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) — A federal agency says rebuilding a sage-grouse population found only in Colorado and Utah could take more than 50 years and cost nearly $561 million.

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Sage Grouse Numbers Stumble In Montana, Across US West

Sep 12, 2019
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana's greater sage grouse population has fallen more than 40% over the past three years, mirroring recent declines across the U.S.
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Sage Grouse Numbers Continue To Drop In Idaho

Aug 13, 2019

 

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho's sage-grouse numbers have dropped 52% since the federal government decided not to list the birds as an endangered species in the fall of 2015.

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Feds To Change Protections For At-Risk Bird In 5 States

Aug 02, 2019

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — The U.S. Forest Service says it's changing sage grouse protection plans in five Western states to conserve habitat for the at-risk bird while allowing ranchers to maintain their livelihoods.

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Jon Griggs has been ranching in northern Nevada for more than 30 years. Fires have always been a part of this landscape, he says, but in the past 20 years, he has seen a significant increase.

A Sea Of Sagebrush Disappears, Making Way For Fire-Prone Cheatgrass

May 30, 2019
In the past two years, more than 800,000 acres in northern Nevada have burned. The traditional sagebrush rangeland is being replaced by cheatgrass that burns hotter and more frequently.
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Idaho, Utah Seek To Defend Trump Drilling Plan Lawsuit

Apr 29, 2019
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Two states are seeking to intervene on the side of the federal government after four conservation groups asked a judge to immediately halt drilling, mining and other activities to protect habitat for a ground-dwelling bird in seven Western states.
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Groups Ask Judge To Halt Drilling, Mining In 7 States

Apr 23, 2019

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Four conservation groups have asked a judge to block a Trump administration plan allowing drilling, mining and other activities in seven western states they say will harm sage grouse.

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US Agency Reconsidering Status Of Bistate Sage Grouse

Apr 12, 2019
RENO, Nev. (AP) — The U.S.
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Critics Seek To Block Easing Of Oil And Gas Rules In West

Mar 28, 2019

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Conservation groups are asking a federal judge to block the Trump administration from easing restrictions on energy companies that were meant to protect a struggling Western bird species.

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US Easing Land Restrictions Across US West

Mar 15, 2019

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Trump administration is finalizing plans to ease restrictions on oil and natural gas drilling and other industrial activities that were imposed to protect an imperiled bird species that ranges across the American West.

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