All Posts Tagged With: "Endangered Species List"

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Interior Department, Wildlife Group Reach
Sage Grouse Deal

In a move that could have huge implications for oil and gas drilling in Wyoming and other western states, the Obama administration says it has struck a deal with a wildlife group that will see it decide by 2015 whether to protect the greater sage grouse under the federal Endangered Species Act.

12May2011 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Sage Grouse Versus Wind Development –
The Battle Has Moved into the National Spotlight

This has made the greater sage grouse — which as its name suggests is totally dependent on sage brush — an unlikely poster child for some U.S. environmentalists, in much the same way that the rare spotted owl became a symbol in the 1980s of pitched battles with the logging industry.

4Aug2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued
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Wyoming Wind Power Could Drive Sage Grouse
to Endangered List

“The bird does well in the existing conditions that are out here. It’s the new threat from wind energy that has got us so worried,” said Aaron Clark, special adviser on energy infrastructure to Wyoming Gov. Freudenthal.

5Jun2009 | admin | 0 comments | Continued