All Posts Tagged With: "sage grouse"

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Giant Wyoming Wind Project Could Have
Bird Issues

Environmental groups say the area is prime habitat for the greater sage grouse, a ground bird that the federal government calls “an icon of western sagebrush ecosystems” and that is under consideration for Endangered Species Act listing.

18Oct2012 | | 0 comments | Continued
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The Surprising Environmentalists

Major water recycling programs. Millions spent on wildlife habitat research. Ongoing air and water quality monitoring. The work of a dedicated environmental non-profit? Actually, these are just a few examples of the contributions that oil and gas operators in Wyoming and Colorado make to environmental and conservation efforts in the West.

1Oct2012 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Assessing New Energy Development on Wildlife

A new report by Joseph Northrup and George Wittemyer of Colorado State University’s Warner College of Natural Resources summarizes current knowledge on energy production’s impacts on wildlife and related mitigation strategies, and highlights gaps in umderstanding the repercussions of alterations to ecosystems.

27Sep2012 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Wind Power Line in Wyoming, Idaho
Draws Opposition

Some Idaho and Wyoming residents and environmental groups are expressing opposition to a proposed 1,100-mile long high-voltage power line designed to transmit 3,000 megawatts of mostly wind-generated electricity to fast-growing areas in the western U.S.

16Apr2012 | | 1 comment | Continued
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Op-Ed: Local Sage-Grouse Conservation —
or Just More Regulation?

The Fish and Wildlife Service has been directed by a federal judge to make a final decision on whether to fully list the greater sage grouse under the Endangered Species Act by 2015. The implications are weighing heavily on sportsmen, hunters, private landowners, ranchers, energy developers, and other land users across the West.

26Mar2012 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Find Solutions, Cut The Rhetoric, Save
the Sage Grouse

A new BLM study indicates that energy development and West Nile virus outbreaks threaten to make the sage grouse extinct in Wyoming. According to the “Powder River Basin Sage Grouse Viability Study,” from 2001 to 2005, sage grouse populations have declined 82 percent within the coalbed methane fields in northeast Wyoming.

22Mar2012 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Wind Turbine Construction Lags Behind Permitting

Specifically, he said legal and environmental issues such as sage grouse habitat, financial concerns, tax uncertainty, legal and transmission constraints have slowed construction of wind turbines.

22Feb2012 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Governor’s Order Adjusts Grouse Rules for State

Mead said in a statement that his order reflects a state effort to develop a compromise acceptable to all sides. “Because the listing of the greater sage grouse as a threatened or endangered species could cripple the economy of our state I believe this executive order is needed.”

4Jun2011 | | 0 comments | Continued
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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 | | 0 comments | Continued
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BLM Expects to Clear Backlog of Unissued Oil
and Gas Leases in Wyoming

The agency said the backlog totaling 1,501 leases was caused by new policies and concerns over wildlife and the environment in the summer of 2010, particularly the status of the Sage Grouse, as well as the change in presidential administrations.

4Apr2011 | | 0 comments | Continued
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Multi-State Power Line Project to Test Policies
on Grouse, ‘Wild Lands’

Backers of the proposed TransWest Express electricity transmission project are trying to accomplish something that has stymied developers in recent years: build a power line that crosses multiple state boundaries and bisects hundreds of miles of federal and private property.

15Mar2011 | | 0 comments | Continued