Or you can hike the Grouse Grind path up nearby Grouse Mountain.
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The Gunnison sage grouse is similar to, though an entirely separate species from, the greater sage grouse.
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"There's too much disturbance for the sage-grouse," said Pat Deibert the National Sage Grouse Coordinator for US Fish and Wildlife service.
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Federal sage grouse plans specifically allow new oil and gas leasing inside all types of sage grouse habitat, even the most sensitive areas.
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And I was pleased to spot a spruce grouse — a darker, less wary, rarer cousin of the ruffed grouse — idling in the road.
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Seen in this light, the draft sage-grouse plans are a legal settlement with the opponents of sage-grouse conservation, by another means.
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So federal agencies should spare us the prestidigitation of glossy puff pieces, and instead give the sage grouse what it always needed: real, mandatory protections that prevent the further destruction of grouse habitat and foster a long-term upsurge in sage grouse numbers.
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That represents more than half of the sage grouse habitat on federal lands where grazing lessees do not have to provide for basic sage grouse habitat needs.
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In Wyoming, the "no surface occupancy" provisions apply only within 6900 mile of sage grouse leks (unique spots where grouse return to dance and mate each year).
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Grouse shooting contributes 32 million pounds to the Scottish economy and supports 2,640 full jobs in remote areas, according to Gift of Grouse, a group promoting the sport.
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Grouse are medium to large-sized birds, similar to partridges, with round bodies and short, broad wings and the red grouse in particular is associated with heather, which grows in Scotland.
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Most of the new sage grouse plan amendments include an objective that agencies maintain at least seven inches of grass height on on the ground to provide adequate cover for sage grouse.
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If this money is spent on science-based projects — like removing fences, roads and overhead powerlines that harm sage grouse habitat today — these expenditures would have an immediate benefit to sage grouse.
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I once accidentally hit a grouse with my pickup truck on my way back to camp from a town run and turned it into the most fabulous wild morel and grouse risotto.
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Word of the Day noun: popular game bird having a plump body and feathered legs and feet noun: flesh of any of various grouse of the family Tetraonidae; usually roasted; flesh too dry to broil verb: hunt grouse verb: complain _________ The word grouse has appeared in 39 New York Times articles in the past year, including on Nov.
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However environmental campaigners say that because grouse moors are intensively managed to ensure that high numbers of grouse breed, other native wildlife such as foxes, mountain hares and birds of prey are "controlled".
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As always, feel free to grouse to us as well.
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" He recommends North Vancouver's Grouse Grind: "It's an incredible hike.
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Teenagers, like adults, typically grouse to seek relief, not advice.
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These days he has little to grouse about, he said.
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Someone had stabbed out the eyes of the taxidermized grouse.
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Sometimes the grouse will dance right up to the tires.
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Thus, even in the most sensitive habitats, the vast majority of livestock operations approved since the sage grouse plans went into effect will go unchanged, without any standards for meeting sage grouse habitat needs.
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"I completely believe that these plans are leaning forward on the conservation of sage grouse," deputy Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, who has led the efforts to change sage grouse policies, told The Associated Press.
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The plan, which came after several states had launched sage grouse conservation efforts of their own, limits development — including that of the oil and gas industries — on federally-owned sage grouse territory in 10 states.
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Paul would sometimes grouse about Tommy having moved to Los Angeles.
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Federal sage grouse planning started out with the best of intentions.
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It's the single biggest problem sage grouse face in the region.
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Relaxed protections on the greater sage grouse to favor mining and petroleum companies The greater sage grouse population, a Western bird species known for its complex (and funny) mating dance, has declined drastically in recent years.
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INTERIOR TO REVIEW SAGE GROUSE PLAN: The Interior Department has begun the process of reconsidering and potentially revising a 220006 plan to protect the greater sage grouse, a Western bird that has seen its habitat dwindle.
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Cuts to sage grouse habitat The Interior Department proposed to cut protections that benefited the sage grouse, a grassland bird that lives in the Great Plains and western states, which could allow for expanded oil and drilling.
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Symptomatic of BLM's problematic role in the global extinction crisis, populations of the greater sage-grouse continue to plummet, as federal sage grouse plans fail to restore degraded habitats and spur a rebound to healthy population levels.
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Going forward he must make a concerted effort to include stakeholders from across the West in decisions made about sage-grouse conservation — if he does not, the alternative looks bleak for the sage-grouse and Western communities.
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But according to analysis by Western Watersheds Project, of 964 grazing permits approved rangewide since the new sage grouse plans were adopted, BLM renewed some 84 percent of livestock grazing without incorporating the new sage grouse protections.
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But if that happens, we cannot grouse anymore about diminishing US leadership.
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But Zinke was not content to rewrite the federal sage grouse plans.
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Then we found a dead ruffed grouse hidden under a rhododendron bush.
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The same yawning gap between perception and reality holds for sage-grouse.
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The sage grouse occupies a nearly mythical status in the American West.
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Scientists estimate North America's original sage grouse population at 85033 million birds.
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Until that time, the long decline of the sage-grouse will continue.
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The shortcomings of the original plans are many: Buffers around display and mating sites in Wyoming (home to the largest remaining sage-grouse population) are far too tiny to protect breeding and nesting grouse, Nevada priority habitats were reduced by more than half and those that survived are heavily fragmented, and several massive electrical transmission projects were given a free pass on compliance with grouse protections.
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"Some people don't believe [the sage grouse protections] are strong enough," Pang said.
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Environmentalists grouse that its research enables farmers to push into the Amazon rainforest.
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The pair would obsessively watch MTV and grouse at the bands they saw.
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Multiple outlets report that George attended his first grouse shoot this past Friday.
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Biologists estimate there were once 16 million greater-sage grouse across the West.
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The successful greater sage grouse conservation strategy demonstrates the importance of the ESA.
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These private pastures lessen the distance between the Woodland Estate and Grouse Creek.
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The ground-dwelling, chicken-sized sage grouse are found in 11 Western states.
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This will be followed with trips to grouse moors and driven pheasant shoots.
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"Sage grouse is a broad policy issue," said Ms. Sgamma, "not company-specific."
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Audubon Rockies says the greater sage grouse population has declined by 95 percent.
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For the top-down view, nothing beats a gondola trip up Grouse Mountain.
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Grouse Mountain isn't world-famous like nearby Whistler - but it is Vancouver's mountain.
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The ban was part of the administration's efforts to protect the sage grouse.
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The bottom line is that these significant federal expenditures are band-aids insufficient to produce a net gain in sage grouse habitat, and they sidestep the major problems that have driven individual sage grouse populations on a downward spiral toward extinction.
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A recent report on sage grouse population trends by the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies says that active groups of male sage grouse, or "leks," counted in Oregon have increased from 163 in 2011 to 243 in 2015.
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To underscore what is at risk and how much industry would gain from undoing BLM's sage-grouse plans, there are currently over 28503 million acres of oil and gas leases in sage-grouse habitat designated for heightened protection under BLM's plans.
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The BLM even convened a panel of sage grouse experts to review the science on problems facing sage grouse and their habitats, and that panel did a decent job of setting standards based on the science, particularly for industrial uses.
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In 20133, the Obama administration came to an agreement with Western states, oil and gas companies, and environmentalists about how to protect the greater sage grouse, the largest grouse in North America, and its fragile sagebrush habitat across the West.
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Among the most striking examples was a central Utah auction that went forward despite the local 'Sheeprocks' sage-grouse population having plummeted to levels that tripped "hard triggers" which are supposed to invoke new and much stronger sage grouse protections.
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The boy had boarded the Screaming Eagle chairlift on Grouse Mountain in Vancouver, Canada.
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Apparently, it's the perfect house present to bring along to a grouse-shooting weekend.
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The sage grouse provision had gotten the most attention by both supporters and opponents.
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As the sage-grouse goes, mule deer, elk and pronghorns are likely to follow.
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The sage grouse and lesser prairie-chicken are (pretty funky looking) chicken-sized birds.
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They elected us to fix their problems, not grouse about, you know, personality differences.
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Needless to say, British lawmakers were outraged and took to social media to grouse.
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The BLM said the proposal would open up hundreds of thousands of acres of grouse habitat in states like Colorado and Utah to oil and gas leasing, allow for changes to grouse habitat boundary maps, and remove obstacles to new coal leasing.
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On June 8, Secretary Zinke announced that the sage grouse plans will be reviewed to "protect sage grouse and its habitat while also ensuring conservation efforts do not impede local economic opportunities" to follow through on President Trump's executive order on energy independence.
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The Obama administration works for two years to save an endangered bird, the sage grouse, and after lengthy negotiations with state governments, conservationists and energy companies, develops an innovative plan to protect millions of acres of sage grouse habitat across 10 states.
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They also grouse that the timing is poor, with oil prices in a long slump.
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ANYBODY worried about America's ability to settle political arguments should consider the greater sage grouse.
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Sage grouse populations are up this year in some areas, helped by favorable rainfall patterns.
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"I wanted to try game season so we're cooking grouse tonight with mole," says Vallejo.
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Bishop needs to step aside and allow the sage-grouse plans to be fully implemented.
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I'm not going to grouse and complain when there's nothing I can do about it.
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"Balancing sage grouse habitat protection and economic development requires mitigation of negative impacts," she said.
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The greater sage grouse was almost listed under the Endangered Species Act two years ago.
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Additionally, successful restoration measures across the range of sage grouse must be defensible in court.
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It's a surprising contrast: The ptarmigan is beef red and the grouse is chicken white.
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And not just any mountain: Grouse Mountain, whose ski slopes famously look down on Vancouver.
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Recently, federal agencies tried their own sleight-of-hand, launching a glossy brochure touting sage grouse habitat accomplishments over the past year in an effort to fool the public into thinking that their new, collaborative sage grouse efforts are some kind of decisive solution.
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Sage grouse Of a handful of riders aimed at removing safeguards for endangered species, the most infuriating are roughly identical riders in the House and the Senate that would deny endangered species protections to a Western bird called the sage grouse, whose numbers are declining.
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Adopting federal plans that designate priority habitats for protection across 10 Western states is all well and good, but it's a disservice to everyone (not to mention to sage grouse) to manage those priority habitats for levels of destruction known to destroy sage grouse populations.
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During the past week, two different lawsuits challenged the Trump administration's decision to open up sage-grouse habitats to oil and gas leasing, despite the requirements in the current sage-grouse plans to prioritize oil and gas leasing and development outside of designated habitats.
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Montana, North Dakota and South Dakota opted out of amending their sage grouse plans, BLM said.
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This is a great idea and ensures enough hiding cover for nesting sage grouse and chicks.
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Between 200,000 and 500,000 sage grouse remain, down from a peak population of about 16 million.
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Nowhere are these trends more evident than in the Zinke attack on federal sage grouse plans.
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Clinton into an unwelcome spat, another Clinton adviser, Neera Tanden, wrote to Mr. Podesta to grouse.
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Senior Marines often contact Mr. Uriarte to grouse about unflattering portrayals, including his characters' excessive drinking.
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No, I want to grouse about one of the sadder excuses for architecture completed this year.
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Is the sale of Grouse to simply a more-modest version of the Whistler-Vail deal?
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"Grouse Mountain is incredibly appreciative of those who assisted in Wednesday's chairlift incident," the statement said.
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The U.S. Interior Department proposed easing Obama-era protections for a bird, the greater sage-grouse, to boost oil drilling and mining across Western states, potentially opening up hundreds of thousands of acres of grouse habitat in states like Colorado and Utah to oil and gas leasing.
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The promise of limiting livestock grazing to leaving seven inches of grass height in key grouse habitats never materialized, as the vast majority of 10-year grazing leases were renewed under the terms of a congressional grazing rider that rolls over permits without adding sage grouse protections.
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Sage grouse are considered by conservationists to be a key indicator species for America's dwindling sagebrush ecosystem.
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The Europeans will grouse, but have no real alternative other than to stick with the NATO alliance.
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From an estimated 16m birds, the grouse has been reduced to fewer than 500,000 across 11 states.
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It was what the grouse and the pheasant were in England and Scotland and Europe—only better!
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When you're ready to get back on dry land, head up to Vancouver's premiere peak: Grouse Mountain.
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Livestock overgrazing will continue, degrading sage grouse habitat and stoking the cycle of cheatgrass and range fires.
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Elizabeth Boehm was the professional winner for her shot of two greater sage-grouse fighting in Wyoming.
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White oak forests also provide important wildlife habitat for wild turkey, deer, grouse and many other species.
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Like other Maine woods roads, you may spot a moose crossing, or a ruffed grouse picking gravel.
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The top threats to grouse habitat in the West are wildfire, invasive weeds like cheatgrass, and development.
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They're the largest grouse, and males display using a pair of pendulous sacs they inflate with air.
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"Have you ever hunted grouse?" asked Byron Thomas, a longtime Palm Beach resident, explaining Mr. Trump's appeal.
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Of course, Jamie Dimon's grouse isn't with the technology behind bitcoin called blockchain, it's with the currency.
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But as the Grouse sale demonstrates, they are also increasingly beholden the forces of Chinese state policy.
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A "grumpy old men's club" sign hangs over the spot where three regulars sit weekly and grouse.
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But sage grouse numbers have been on the decline for the past century because of human impact.
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The plan included bans and restrictions on mining and oil and gas leasing on sage grouse habitat.
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On Wednesday, during a grouse shoot at Invermark Estate in Angus, Scotland, a cocker spaniel named Jazz disappeared.
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The boreal forest of the Mezensky district in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia, teems with wild reindeer, wolverines, and grouse.
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Federal approvals of industrial projects were thankfully placed on hold while the sage grouse plans were being prepared.
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Unlike many Western land-use battles of the past, sage grouse conservation drew wide support from commercial interests.
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Many Iranians already grouse that the agreement has not brought the promised "peace dividend"of trade and investment.
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Sage grouse: The bill won't include proposed polices that would restrict Endangered Species Act protections for certain animals.
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The plans even accommodated oil and gas extraction in ways that would minimize disturbance of breeding sage-grouse.
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It's the last major federal step in the government's bid to conserve the sage-grouse and its habitat.
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Video games are to blame, some grouse, while others attribute the decline to the rising expense of gear.
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Video games are to blame, some grouse, while others attribute diminishing interest to the rising expense of gear.
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"Zinke might as well have formed a shotgun posse to kill off the sage grouse directly," she said.
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She cited a news release about Mr. Zinke's decision in June to launch a sage grouse review team.
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And because the new federal plans fail to incorporate the strong, science-based protections that the agencies' own experts recommended in their 85033 Sage-grouse National Technical Team report, these new developments will likely cause major and long-term declines in sage grouse populations, piling on to the past century's losses.
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A revision to the wildlife management plans for sage grouse in the West recently announced by Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke may mean more oil and gas drilling near sage grouse leks soon — and a new round of industry-versus-conservationist skirmishes over an issue that many thought had been settled.
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Nigel went on to grouse that the concept of "innocent until proven guilty" has been turned on its head.
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A self-taught taxidermist, he stuffed the eagle owl, sparrow hawk and grouse that glower down on his guests.
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Sage grouse are now believed to number between 200,000 and 500,000 birds across 11 Western states and southern Alberta.
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Unlike most heroes, he'd rather grouse about it — usually in an aside to the audience — than brood over it.
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These habitat standards apply in Priority Habitat Management Areas and Sagebrush Focal Areas specified in the sage grouse plans.
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And we're heartened by news that federal agencies plan to spend $360 million by 2018 on sage grouse conservation.
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Greater Sage-Grouse is an iconic species of the West, but its populations have declined by about 95 percent.
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In 2015, the federal government declined to list sage grouse but imposed land-use restrictions, leading to multiple lawsuits.
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One that would have kept the greater sage grouse from being listed on the endangered species list is gone.
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" The sage grouse "just happened to live in almost every Western state" and that's why "the government chose it.
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If the horses get to be too numerous, it affects the sage grouse, the elk, the antelope and us.
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First, claims that the federal land-use plans benefitting sage grouse impose restrictions that disadvantage our military are incorrect.
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We too want to see lawmakers set politics aside and allow science-based sage grouse conservation efforts to work.
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Together, they protected 4.4 million acres of sage grouse habitat and improved another 400,000 acres by removing invasive plants.
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In his review of the sage-grouse plans, Zinke missed a key opportunity to build upon decades of collaboration.
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Caregivers report biting their tongues when agemates grouse about seemingly trivial problems, from disappointing vacations to home décor dilemmas.
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In 1886, the famous naturalist George Bird Grinnell recorded an enormous flock of sage grouse in Bates Hole, Wyo.
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Hundreds of firefighters are battling the blaze that&aposs burning cattle-grazing land and habitat for the imperiled sage grouse.
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But Donald Trump, whom they overwhelmingly supported for the presidency, has provided them with plenty of other reasons to grouse.
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I bought two four-liter boxes of cheap red wine, a six pack, and a bottle of Red Grouse whisky.
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Though folks may grouse, most people in the United States take very seriously our collective responsibility to pay our taxes.
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Because it turns out it's pretty easy to trick a male sage grouse into trying to mate with a robot.
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As a federal law, the Bishop bill also trumps the newly minted sage grouse plans, potentially blocking critical habitat protections.
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This is why even unlikely allies, like ConocoPhillips, PacifiCorp, and Beef USA, are on-board with the Sage Grouse Initiative.
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Zinke may claim that "No one loves the sage grouse more than I do", but his actions are proving otherwise.
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They support the Land and Water Conservation Fund, protect sage grouse, tackle water issues and ensure sportsmen have a voice.
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His work on protecting habitat for the sage-grouse also seems to have won over a number of green groups.
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Unfortunately, the final decision to not list the greater sage-grouse under the Endangered Species Act will undoubtedly be challenged.
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Our lawmakers need to set politics aside and do the right thing for the West and for the sage grouse.
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But that move opened up only two million acres, compared with the nine million acres in the sage grouse decision.
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"No one loves the sage grouse more than I do," Mr. Zinke said in response to a question in 2017.
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The Interior Department relaxed restrictions on oil and gas drilling in areas inhabited by the sage grouse, a threatened bird.
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And before you grouse to one another "what's she doing here," take another look at who made your puzzle today.
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They worry that dealing with sage grouse-related-regulation — and other such headaches — may dampen Kanye's enthusiasm for the town.
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The sage grouse has evolved to survive for tens of millions of years in some of the most brutal climates.
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The Interior Department has been working on changing sage grouse protections since June 2017, when former Secretary Ryan Zinke signed an order asking federal and state governments to strengthen "communication and collaboration... with the shared goal of conserving" sage grouse while also not impeding "local economic opportunities," according to the Bureau of Land Management.
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Ultimately, the sage-grouse protections limit the use of some federal lands for grazing as well as mining and oil extraction.
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Almost a dozen states have lands that could fall under the habitat rules protecting the sage-grouse, which eats mainly sagebrush.
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In the meantime, the net habitat loss means that sage grouse are worse off today than they were a year ago.
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Inevitably, those same kinda dudes grouse about the fussy, hair-splitting language of political correctness—so, fine, let's stop pussyfooting around.
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Zinke also said some states have suggested the overall strategy place more emphasis on grouse population numbers than on habitat size.
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We didn't want to leave for a place like Grouse Lodge where we knew we would have fun or be relaxed.
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In Nevada, ranchers are working with the USDA to restore sagebrush ecosystems to save habitats for the threatened greater sage-grouse.
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PEER said the lack of Senate-confirmed leadership at Interior across multiple departments invalidates some agency decisions regarding Sage Grouse management.
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The debate over how best to conserve the greater sage grouse has reached a fevered pitch in the past few months.
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And I knew that as soon as I graduated from Marriage Dropout School, I would text him to grouse about it.
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Environmentalists have dismissed that claim, calling the rollback of the sage grouse protections a gift to the oil and gas industry.
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One episode zooms in on prairie chicken — a small, curvy grouse with brown stripes that was displaced by the corn industry.
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But counts of sage grouse populations in Wyoming over the last two years have already declined about 30 percent, he said.
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The call included Kathleen Benedetto, a special assistant to Mr. Zinke who was a leader of the sage grouse review team.
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The bird is the greater sage grouse, and the sight is their spring mating ritual on their dancing grounds, called leks.
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Now he's worried that the greater sage grouse may go the way of another springtime dancing bird, the lesser prairie chicken.
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I don't have a leg to stand on in either case, but sometimes it just feels good to grouse a little.
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The president has continued to grouse privately to friends and associates about the Arizona senator, whom he considers an unhelpful pest.
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The part purchase of Grouse cannot be viewed simply as a private firm, like any other, getting into the ski business.
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The states impacted by Interior's new sage grouse plan are Oregon, Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Wyoming, Nevada and northeastern parts of California.
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This means the fossil fuel and mining industries have the most to gain from weak conservation policies for the sage grouse.
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It does women, and society, no favors to grouse about female superiority as a way to let men off the hook.
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Officials moved swiftly to "review" the West-wide sage grouse plans, then to initiate their own planning process to alter them.
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The sage grouse once roamed the American West in millions, but energy development and agriculture reduced its total habitat area by half.
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The president of Grouse Mountain, Michael Cameron, met with the heroes to thank them and offer them season passes to the resort.
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Taxi drivers at the airport grouse about new charges: 2,000 pounds a month for a permit, plus parking fees that have quadrupled.
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The draft revisions suggest Mr Zinke wants to promote drilling on grouse habitat and give the states more say in managing it.
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Steve Jobs, a former boss of Apple, was known to grouse that Google's Android operating system was hardly different from Apple's iOS.
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Some economists grouse about such rules, which can interfere with the smooth functioning of competitive labour markets and impose some efficiency costs.
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Once oil and gas prices spike again, as they inevitably do, there will be a fresh onslaught of sage grouse habitat destruction.
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The agency said it would no longer prioritize drilling outside of sage grouse habitat — one of the core tenets of the plans.
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After all, the most practical way to have both responsible drilling and sage grouse conservation is to drill where the bird isn't.
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"I am particularly interested in assisting the states in setting sage-grouse population objectives to improve management of the species," Zinke wrote.
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A provision on the conservation of greater sage-grouse doesn't belong in our national defense bill, as McCain has made clear. Rep.
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When they've heard the facts we expect Labour to support the massive economic benefits to marginal upland communities that grouse shooting delivers.
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The sage-grouse became an opportunity for landowners to earn revenue, rather than a liability, and the states effectively avoided a listing.
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Sage grouse, a threatened Western ground-dwelling bird, are considered by conservationists to be a key indicator for America's dwindling sagebrush ecosystem.
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House conservatives continued to grouse, but there is little chance that they can block the bill from reaching the president this month.
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IRS agents often grouse about working hard on an exam only to see an appeals officer slash the amount of tax owed.
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An 8-year-old boy on a chairlift at Grouse Mountain had slipped and was dangling, held up only by his father.
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Republicans and their staff members privately grouse that the town halls are political theater dressed up as sincere attempts at open dialogue.
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So with this economic threat looming over their heads, many local individuals were additionally motivated to conserve sage grouse habitat on their properties.
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Many musicians, and music labels, still grouse that their work generates tiny payouts on online platforms; this year YouTube is everyone's favorite target.
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Mr Sirisena's main grouse, ironically, is that he had no idea what his government was doing until he read it in the news.
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Fifty years or more into the future, some of that net loss will probably become sage grouse habitat again, thanks to restoration efforts.
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Sooner or later, fossil fuel commodity prices will rise and the bulldozers and drilling rigs will pour into sage grouse habitats once again.
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Some grouse that Exim's loan was accepted in preference to even cheaper money offered by the Asian Development Bank for an underground metro.
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In a recent survey, the top complaint by Chinese consumers was poor food safety and the next biggest grouse was shoddy health care.
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The Queen drove Kate to a remote part of the estate to meet with William for a picnic while he was grouse hunting.
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Unfortunately, it seems like one of the leading opponents of listing the sage-grouse on the ESA just cannot take "yes" for answer.
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And the sage-grouse is the canary in the coal mine because sagebrush lands are home to more than 350 plants and animals.
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Its call for a review comes as the four-month grouse shooting season officially begins on a day known as the "Glorious Twelfth".
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The Trump administration rolled out detailed proposals Thursday to reduce measures designed to protect the imperiled greater sage grouse in seven western states.
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When he was booted from the Yankees' rotation in 21 despite having the lowest E.R.A. among the team's starters, he did not grouse.
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The sage grouse, which looks like a chesty chicken but struts like a spiky-tailed peacock, is renowned for its elaborate mating dance.
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A federal judge has upheld Endangered Species Act (ESA) protections for the Gunnison sage grouse, rejecting challenges from the states that host it.
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Will the greater sage grouse go extinct as the administration works to unravel a compromise protection plan already agreed on by all parties?
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In the end, the two states that completed collaborative processes for sage grouse — Wyoming and Colorado — ended up with the weakest federal plans.
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What's really going on here is a not-so-stealthy attempt to attack the Endangered Species Act — to play Noah on the Ark, deciding which species get to stay and which get tossed overboard — and to derail sage-grouse conservation plans.. A driven minority is intent on undermining plans approved in 2015 to save sage-grouse, whose numbers have been plummeting for years.
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More recently, the Bureau of Land Management gave final approval to a 140,859-acre project in western Wyoming — one that will feature as many as 123,500 new wells — in an area that also includes one of the world's most important winter habitats for sage grouse, said Tom Christiansen, who served as Wyoming Game and Fish Department's sage grouse coordinator until last month.
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At the Leadville National Fish Hatchery southwest of Denver, hunting of duck, grouse, elk and mule deer would be allowed for the first time.
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Still it was fun to play and watch Cozmo celebrate a win and grouse over a loss, often by angrily knocking over a cube.
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It would have restricted development on grouse habitat, potentially beggaring states such as Wyoming which collects three-fifths of its revenues from energy companies.
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Once a sage-grouse habitat has been crisscrossed with roads, or a national monument riddled with mines, the rationale for preserving it is gone.
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"The best method for determining [sage grouse] viability will be to assess a combination of habitat availability and populations, which are inseparable," it wrote.
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As chairman of the Armed Services Committee, McCain has seen to it that the sage-grouse amendment and other contentious riders didn't get anywhere.
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But after several weeks, some colleagues grouse they'd rather see the 2023-year-old become a workhorse rather than a show horse (The Hill).
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Since its inception in 2628, I have worked with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Sage Grouse Initiative (SGI) on my ranch in Adel.
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Separately, the Trump administration provided details of a major rollback of protections for the habitat of the greater sage grouse, a bird nearing endangerment.
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Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, who would implement the revised sage grouse plan, has repeatedly said that the new plans would not harm the bird.
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And without ambivalence they devour any wild meat — squirrel, grouse, elk, deer, bear, European dove — no matter the route it traveled to our kitchen.
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On August 7, Secretary Zinke issued the order to revise the sage grouse plans, including modifying the policy on fluid-mineral leasing and development.
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"The far left bank of the conservation movement always thought that it should be listed," Mr. Rutledge said, in reference to the sage grouse.
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"It's a little nerve-racking," Mayor Matt Hall said, sitting next to the framed portrait of a sage grouse that hangs in his office.
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He hunts for deer, elk, grouse, catches rainbows and cutthroat, hikes into the wildest pockets of Montana, jumps from cliffs into icy river pools.
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But their habitat intersects with oil and gas fields, particularly in resource-rich Wyoming, where close to half of the sage grouse population resides.
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These types of riders have reduced or removed protections for the gray wolf, lesser prairie chicken, sage grouse, several African "trophy animals," and more.
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The Interior Department is expected to amend the greater sage grouse plans later this year, but the regulatory process is likely to take years.
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The Trump administration has now released its proposed sage-grouse plan alterations, and they take the already-inadequate 2015 plans and make them worse.
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But the Trump administration's latest move to re-prioritize sage grouse habitats for leasing and drilling has darkened prospects for the highly-imperiled bird.
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A third group is the regulators themselves, who often privately grouse about being bewildered by their own remit and distrust other regulators with overlapping briefs.
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I keep hearing Democratic friends grouse that the party's members need to get on the same page, as if they can be magically muscled there.
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Dr Ønvik Pedersen's team has found that at least three other species—ptarmigans (a type of grouse), sibling voles and Arctic foxes—are similarly hit.
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FORNETH MOOR, Scotland (Reuters) - Britain's grouse shooting season officially began on Monday, with misty wet Scottish weather not proving an impediment for those taking part.
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At least 809 of these permits — almost three-quarters of them — entirely failed to incorporate the new sage grouse habitat objectives promised under the plans.
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I'd come to Newmont to see the impact of mining on the greater sage-grouse—a bird whose population in recent years have declined precipitously.
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For example, the lesser prairie chicken — a grouse found in Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico — dwindled to a mere 22019,000 birds in 2013.
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A favorite in recent years has been a measure intended to tie the hands of federal agencies working to save the imperiled greater sage-grouse.
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These changes not only have a negative impact on sage grouse, they also reduce rangeland productivity for livestock and habitat for other sagebrush wildlife species.
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On 10 miles of trail, I had flushed several grouse, and stepped over moose, coyote and bear scat, but I had not encountered another soul.
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Pursuits In a lifetime of offbeat travel experiences, searching for mating sage grouse in a snow squall may rank as one of my oddest pursuits.
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Grouse, which he said he hunts on his property near Cooperstown, N.Y., need to be flushed out of the brush before you can shoot them.
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Steve Elmendorf, a longtime Clinton supporter, emailed her campaign manager to grouse about one supporter in particular: Linda Lipsen, head of the trial lawyers association.
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Scientists also found simulated road noise caused a 21970 percent drop in the number of male sage grouse showing up to mating grounds in Wyoming.
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For images with conflicting information — three volunteers see a turkey, say, and the rest see a ruffed grouse — Dr. Cheeseman and her interns weigh in.
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But under the Trump Administration, the federal Bureau of Land Management has already restarted putting out oil and gas development leases in sage grouse habitat.
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In addition to the greater sage grouse, that rule helped promote conservation efforts for the lesser prairie chicken, dunes sagebrush lizard and the gopher tortoise.
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But I'd bet those 500 hectares of private land (further distinguishing Grouse from Whistler, which leases Crown land) have a lot to do with it.
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The announcements are the latest development in the goal to protect the sage grouse, a distinctive chicken-sized bird characterized by its unique courtship rituals.
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Conservationists and environmentalists have urged federal and state governments to take action to protect the grouse, which has seen its population fluctuate throughout the west.
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With both urban and outdoor experiences to offer, vacationers in this Canadian city can hike Grouse Mountain by day and enjoy the nightlife in Yaletown.
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A CNN investigation found that Bernhardt's former client, the Independent Petroleum Association of America, repeatedly met and emailed Interior officials about the sage grouse bird.
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Interior finalized a policy in March that opens up land previously protected as a habitat for the sage grouse bird to oil and gas drilling.
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That's exactly what happened last week when conservation groups filed suit to ensure that the charismatic dancing sage grouse has a fighting chance at survival.
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Some grouse that Haddad, a mild-mannered political science professor at the elite University of Sao Paulo, is not tough enough to take on Bolsonaro.
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They require regulatory certainty—in this case, a clear sense that the grouse will be listed failing adequate conservation measures—and a degree of mutual trust.
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The greater sage grouse, known for its elaborate mating rituals, once ranged by the millions across a broad expanse of the western United States and Canada.
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And the governor's race in Wyoming could determine whether oil and gas companies will be required to continue repairing habitats for sage grouse in the state.
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If Jack had prevailed, Richard could grouse forever about how his brilliant algorithm was squandered by a small-minded businessman and no one could question it.
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Earlier this year, Ryan Zinke, the interior secretary, ordered a review of the sage grouse plans, in part to determine whether they were hindering energy production.
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Brian Rutledge, director of the Audubon Society's sagebrush ecosystem initiative, said that the sage grouse plan was developed over many years and based on extensive input.
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"I am particularly interested in assisting the states in setting sage-grouse population objectives to improve management of the species," Zinke wrote in a letter then.
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We were able to partner with Grouse Mountain, which is one of the largest tourist attractions there, as well as the Pacific National Exhibition, the PNE.
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Asked this week about amendments like the sage grouse one, committee Chairman Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) said he hopes such debates can be avoided this year.
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Approximately 4.4 million acres of sagebrush habitat were restored by more than 1,100 ranchers by the end of 2014, thanks to project called the Sage Grouse Initiative.
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Here, avid hikers can tackle the "Grouse Grind," a nearly two-mile trail up the face of the mountain that locals refer to as Mother Nature's StairMaster.
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In a birthday interview with Country Life, His Royal Highness revealed that he prefers the classic Greek dish moussaka with grouse, not lamb, giving us the groussaka.
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Case in point: the historic decision not to list the greater sage-grouse had the eyes of the entire U.S. energy and agriculture industries on its back.
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He co-sponsored the "Greater Sage Grouse Protection and Recovery Act of 2016," which would have delayed protection of the bird as an endangered species until 2026.
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Astonishingly, you're also moving to undercut the Western sage grouse conservation plans that were so carefully developed by bipartisan federal, state and local partners across the West.
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Loss of vegetation to overgrazing has also displaced native species like elk and bighorn sheep and decimated sagebrush and grass cover needed by the greater sage-grouse.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's opposition Labour Party called on Monday for a review into driven grouse shooting, saying the sport's impact on the environment needed to be assessed.
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I know that many solvers grouse about "stunt" puzzles, but honestly, it took a lot to build this one, yet it successfully maintains a sense of fun.
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In the music business, when you disappear for a long stretch of time, you abandon your right to grouse about how things have changed in your absence.
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But these plans did apply measurable benchmarks that in some cases agreed with scientific standards for sage grouse conservation, even while providing loopholes to make them optional.
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The sage steppe and the Grouse are among the places and species that help make America unique, and once they are gone we cannot get them back.
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According to the indictment, Mr. Gaffey directed the payment from offshore accounts of various expenses of Mr. von der Goltz, including mortgage payments, art and grouse shoots.
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For as much as I grouse about Game of Thrones, it's often casually stunning in a way that no other TV show comes close to pulling off.
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On your own: The Wyoming Game and Fish Department publishes a guide to do-it-yourself lek-watching with locations of sage-grouse leks across the state.
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In December, the Trump administration released a plan to amend the Obama-era sage grouse protections and open vast swaths of western land for mining and drilling.
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Just last year, Congress loaded up the Interior Appropriations bill with numerous riders to block or remove species protections for species ranging from wolves to sage grouse.
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Mr. Zinke's action will threaten habitat that protects 350 wildlife species and push at least one bird, the greater sage-grouse, closer to the brink of extinction.
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No one begrudges an industry or group the ability to grouse privately about its unique challenges, and maybe even in a way others would find grating or inappropriate.
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For example, the Obama administration encouraged forward-thinking state leaders, landowners and conservationists to work together to conserve the greater sage grouse, lesser prairie chicken and gopher tortoise.
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Challenges included contested protections for the sage grouse and lesser prairie chicken, frequently found in Western states, and calls to delist gray wolves across the continental United States.
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The announcements are the latest development in the fight over how to protect the sage grouse, which culminated in the establishment of the land protection plan in 28500.
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Despite evidence of environmental damage, the 10 largest English grouse moors were paid more than 3 million pounds ($3.6 million) a year in farm subsidies, the party said.
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This has clearly been a win-win-win situation for sage grouse, for ranchers and our livestock, and for all the wildlife that depends on the sagebrush ecosystem.
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Zinke signed an order in June to create an internal task force on the sage grouse plans, with the goal of making them work better, particularly for states.
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This is a travesty not just for future generations counting on us to save national treasures like Bear's Ears and the sage grouse, but for our very democracy.
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That could mean more giant rangeland wildfires that in recent decades destroyed vast areas of sagebrush country that support some 350 species of wildlife, including imperiled sage grouse.
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These were hardy folk, not inclined to grouse about the weather, even in its extremes, which is part of why the tragedy at the school hit so hard.
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A spokeswoman for the Interior Department's Bureau of Land Management, which published the proposal, said the new plan would not strip away all protections of sage grouse habitat.
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For example, Mr. Rutledge points out that the deal still allowed for oil and gas drilling, just not in ways that would excessively disturb sage grouse breeding areas.
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Today, states are reporting sage grouse declines of 33 to 61 percent since the plans went into effect, and this magnificent bird remains on a path toward extinction.
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The reality is that industry doesn't want to see endangered species protection for sage-grouse, and their racket of opposition is unduly amplified by good-old-boy networks.
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In fact, the agencies designated large stretches of the Sagebrush Sea as priority habitats for sage grouse, and updated management plans to increase habitat protections in these areas.
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These lawsuits have the potential to prevent the Trump administration from jumping the gun on dismantling sage -grouse protections before they have completed the legally-mandated planning process.
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Served hot, it is happiest with a bird—especially a grouse—but Christmas dinner would not be the same without bread sauce nustled up next to the meat.
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The livestock lobby wants repeal on certain national monument designations in the West and rollbacks of environmental rules now designed to protect a bird known as the sage-grouse.
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Pay no attention, gentle reader, to the fact that more than 220006 million acres of sage grouse country burned over the past year in at least 2202 separate fires.
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Meanwhile, on 35.5 million acres of sage grouse habitats falling outside of these specially designated areas, the new plans apply no habitat standards at all for managing livestock grazing.
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The Trump administration is changing the way it protects the greater sage grouse in an effort to provide states more flexibility in how they deal with the imperiled bird.
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In fact, the multi-year effort, and the conservation commitments made in the plans, resulted in avoiding the need to list the sage-grouse under the Endangered Species Act.
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Other legislative work next week includes a Tuesday hearing in the Energy and Natural Resources Committee on sage grouse conservation work, a hot topic for members and western states.
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Conaway won't seek reelection: report MORE (R-Utah), who chairs the House Natural Resources Committee, has for years pushed to stop sage grouse protections through the defense bills. Sen.
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The Trump administration plans to formally reconsider a landmark set of Obama administration policies meant to protect the greater sage grouse in the West, The New York Times reported.
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In 85033, they told members of Congress that they didn't anticipate problems complying with the sage-grouse conservation plans and could, if necessary, get exemptions for national security reasons.
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Some of the lengthy fights of years past -- such as the one on everyone's favorite bird, the sage grouse -- could be precluded with a Republican in the White House.
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We were interested in buying leases within the county where we live specifically, on land where oil and gas exploration might threaten sage grouse, prairie dogs and other wildlife.
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More natural resources news: The Trump administration plans to open nine million acres to drilling and mining by removing protections for the sage grouse, an imperiled ground-nesting bird.
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Less than 10 percent of the historical population of sage grouse remains in Western North America, and the species is being steadily eliminated by extractive-industry-driven habitat loss.
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Mr. Bernhardt's plan to weaken the protection of the sage grouse also translates into a victory for his former oil industry clients, who have long sought such a change.
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Every so often, a bit of drama creeps into the online escape room community where these folks swap suggestions for new rooms to try and grouse about bad puzzles.
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There would still be buffer zones banning the destruction of sage grouse habitat near nests, and drilling and mining companies would have to apply for waivers to destroy habitat.
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The elaborate compromise was designed to keep the sage grouse off the endangered species list, which would have required much greater restrictions on activities within the bird's broad range.
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Ms. Copeland has published research that showed the 2015 plan would significantly reduce future losses of sage grouse populations, while also benefiting other sagebrush wildlife such as mule deer.
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"I felt like it was distasteful," Rand Cole, who helps to manage the local cemeteries and works part time as a personal trainer, said of the sage grouse coverage.
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However, even a cursory examination of what CMIG is all about suggests the Grouse deal is quite a different proposition to Whistler's sale, regardless of the "silent investor" protestation.
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On April 12, a meeting that was listed as "Briefing with BLM" on the original version of Bernhardt's calendar is listed as "Sage Grouse Update" in the new version.
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Plus, sage grouse don't like to live around tall structures because they look like perching places for predators, so wind farms and other kinds of development threaten the bird.
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Mr. Salvo also stresses how grouse-friendly practices can be good for farming, too, backing a federal program that provides financial aid to private landowners who adopt those practices.
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The latter frequently caused him to grouse to his staff, but he realized, as the public face of America's premiere law enforcement agency, that the duty came with the job.
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When Chinese envoys grouse about a world trade and financial architecture designed in Western capitals after the second world war, they have been reminded how globalisation has powered China's growth.
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"I'd like to give us more tools to make sure at the end of the day that the sage grouse is not listed, and we have healthy populations," he said.
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For years, collaborators in the West have been working hard to prevent a conflict in which the sage grouse and its habitat require stringent protections that can impact local economies.
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It was seen at the time as a way to avoid listing the sage grouse as threatened or endangered, a more blunt instrument that would have been far more restrictive.
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On Friday, Kate reportedly took her 5-year-old son on his first grouse-hunting expedition during a visit with Queen Elizabeth at her summer retreat, Balmoral Castle in Scotland.
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In addition to jeopardizing populations of Greater Sage-Grouse, Zinke's proposed changes could devastate local economies and reduce opportunities for outdoor recreation, which generate $1 billion annually in sagebrush country.
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The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Thursday published its final guidelines for how it will work to protect the greater sage-grouse from harms like oil and natural gas drilling.
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When San Franciscans grouse about football in general and the Super Bowl in particular, it usually has to do with those 2911 miles between Levi's Stadium and downtown San Francisco.
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But conservationists immediately slammed the proposals, saying they threaten not just the sage grouse, but the various other plant and wildlife species that depend on the unique sage brush ecosystem.
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In 2001, the George W. Bush administration unleashed large-scale drilling, turning millions of acres of the American West into wasteland, driving the sage grouse to the brink of extinction.
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" I asked Robin about the sage grouse, whose population had plummeted from 16 million to a few hundred thousand, and she told me, "I don't think they are really endangered.
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Older New Yorkers often wax nostalgic about places that were important to them and are gone, and grouse that the city doesn't have the same "magic" that it used to.
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In July 2003, Kathleen M. Sgamma, the president of the Western Energy Alliance, wrote to the Interior Department, arguing that the Obama-era sage grouse rules were far too protective.
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"The Transcontinental Railroad connected New York to Sacramento at the new, exhilarating speed of 35 miles per hour," Stone reports, adding that its passengers were fed on grouse and champagne.
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The Interior Department has begun the process of reconsidering and potentially revising a 2015 plan to protect the greater sage grouse, a Western bird that has seen its habitat dwindle.
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Julia Grant, a spokesperson for Grouse Mountain, said in a statement that the child was attended to by the resort's patrol and sent to the hospital as a precautionary measure.
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Conversely, some of the famous boreal breeding birds — American three-toed woodpecker, spruce grouse and Cape May warbler — have all but disappeared, their breeding ranges having withdrawn northward into Canada.
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Last year, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke signaled he was prepping a big overhaul of a 2015 deal Barack Obama's Interior inked with Western governors and others to protect the sage grouse.
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And no, International Men's Day is not just a bunch of guys getting together to grouse about how there is an International Women's day on the other side of the calendar.
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Grizzled veterans also grouse that pro se defendants can also slow down an already clogged system by turning an otherwise two-minute hearing into a filibuster speech about the Federalist Papers.
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Orioles, eagles, grouse and gulls are among 389 types of bird -- 33% of 604 species assessed on this continent -- that are highly or moderately vulnerable to climate change, the study says.
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This has been BLM policy for decades, and has helped shield wildlife species like sage grouse and bighorn sheep from some of the worst impacts of commercial development on public lands.
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Over half the sage brush on which the grouse feeds has been lost and much of what remains has been degraded by agriculture, industry and invasive grasses fortified by global warming.
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Footage captured from the dramatic rescue at Grouse Mountain shows the boy's father holding on to his arms as he dangles 20 feet in the air above the snow-covered slope.
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No, the language isn't going to pot Inevitably, whenever a lexicographical authority releases a collection of new words, there are purists ready to grouse about the decline of their precious language.
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Since sagebrush habitat can take a century or more to recover, the millions of dollars spent on post-fire rehabilitation will take decades before they provide any habitat for sage grouse.
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The Newmont Mine had a lek, or sage-grouse mating ground, roughly six miles away from the mine site according to Jeff White the Director of Environmental Stewardship for Newmont Mines.
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Also dropped from the final bill was a House-passed provision that would have blocked endangered species protections for the greater sage grouse and the lesser prairie chicken for 2628 years.
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Also dropped from the final bill was a House-passed provision that would have blocked endangered species protections for the greater sage grouse and the lesser prairie chicken for 10 years.
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In the meantime, he cancelled a process to withdraw Sagebrush Focal Areas — the highest value grouse habitats that are considered the last strongholds for the species — from hard-rock mining claims.
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ON TAP TUESDAY I: The Senate Energy Committee's public lands subcommittee will hold a hearing on the Bureau of Land Management's and Forest Service's land management plans for sage grouse conservation.
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The administration outlined plans on Thursday to open nine million acres in the American West to drilling and mining by removing protections for the sage grouse, an imperiled ground-nesting bird.
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Politicians say, "Nobody wants to see the sage-grouse protected under the Endangered Species Act," and sometimes careless journalists even report this right-wing talking point as if it is fact.
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But even in Wyoming, thought to be a bastion of opposition to federal regulations, 52 percent of voters polled in 2014 said they would support endangered species protections for sage grouse.
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With its ski slopes floodlit at night, Grouse is like a north star when viewed from below, a literal guiding light that can be seen from just about anywhere in Vancouver.
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The sage grouse is considered an indicator species, seen as a proxy for the survival of the entire sage brush ecosystem — including the 350 plant and animal species that share it.
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Yet the new plans allow future oil and gas leasing — the biggest threat — in all of Wyoming, the stronghold for sage grouse, and where the threats from drilling are most extreme.
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Grant also said that Michael Cameron, the president of Grouse Mountain, met with the rescuers to thank them personally and that the resort gave each of them a complimentary season pass.
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The agency is also conducting a review of federal protections of the sage grouse, a bird whose habitat extends over 11 states and is generally protected from oil and gas drilling.
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Last year, the Bureau of Land Management, an agency in the Department of the Interior that manages public lands, announced plans to conserve 35 million acres of federal land for sage grouse.
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At one point, a customer added his name to a waiting list for ''A Year on the Moor,'' a coffee-table book about grouse written and photographed by one Tarquin Millington-Drake.
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According to the Sun, the resort is unsure how the boy ended up hanging from the lift and they are following protocol by launching an investigation, Grouse Mountain spokeswoman Julia Grant said.
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The landmark measures implemented 21 months ago were aimed at saving the grouse while allowing activities such as energy development, mining and ranching to co-exist with the chicken-sized prairie fowl.
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The House wanted to block potential endangered species protections for the greater sage grouse and the lesser prairie chicken for 10 years, and to permanently block protections for the American burying beetle.
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The House wanted to block potential endangered species protections for the greater sage grouse and the lesser prairie chicken for 85033 years, and to permanently block protections for the American burying beetle.
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A small but high-profile group of institutional investors have pulled out in recent years, and remaining clients continue to grouse about high fees and a lack of transparency into complicated bets.
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The House wanted to block potential endangered species protections for the greater sage grouse and the lesser prairie chicken for 10 years, and to permanently block protections for the American burying beetle.
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WWP is suing the Trump administration over their reduction of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase – Escalante National Monuments, and against their decision to expand oil and gas leasing in sage grouse habitats.
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"We don't have enough staff to do all the grazing permit renewals, and sage grouse habitat monitoring, and wild horse management, and oil and gas leasing, and transportation planning," one employee wrote.
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We were very happy with how the grid turned out — there were lots of fun long entries (PAD THAI, JEOPARDY, FUN SPONGE, DC COMICS, NEURO LABS) and very little to grouse about.
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I had tasty homemade pasta at one, Little Grouse on the Prairie, with the help of a sommelier so welcoming I thought he had "made" me as a New York Times writer.
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And the ruffed grouse, the official state game bird in Pennsylvania and one that is popular with hunters, could lose its entire summer and winter ranges in the state, the study found.
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More environment: The Interior Department has begun the process of reconsidering and potentially revising a 2015 plan to protect the greater sage grouse, a Western bird that has seen its habitat dwindle.
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Before the ink was even dry on the 2015 sage grouse plans, industrial interest groups and state governments started filing lawsuits to eliminate even the meager protections that survived the planning process.
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The second lawsuit was filed by National Wildlife Federation, The Wilderness Society, and others, and also focuses on the same failure to prioritize leasing on lands not designated for sage-grouse conservation.
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Trump's affinity for our avian friends is noteworthy, considering how many environmental and energy regulations he has already moved to roll back, potentially harming species ranging from whales to the endangered sage grouse.
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The fembot (Patricelli's name for the contraption) is serious science, though, a machine that's helping her tease apart the wild—and wildly complex—mating ritual of the sage grouse, a species under threat.
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They're willing to frack over sage-grouse habitat, harm whales with seismic blasting, slash national monuments, silence their own scientists and lock us into a future of one climate-related catastrophe after another.
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If the conservation plans are revoked and aggressive development resumed, Greater Sage-Grouse populations are forecast to plummet by up to one-third by 2050, again raising the probability of Endangered Species listing.
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The House Armed Services Committee voted down a defense bill amendment early Thursday that would have allowed the Secretary of the Interior to protect the greater sage-grouse as an endangered species. Rep.
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The Interior Department then proposed to cut protections that benefited the sage grouse, a grassland bird that lives in the Great Plains and Western states, which could allow for expanded oil and drilling.
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"The costs of grouse shooting on our environment and wildlife needs to be to properly weighed up against the benefit of land owners profiting from shooting parties," said Sue Hayman, Labour's environment spokeswoman.
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And he opened the floodgates of oil and gas leasing in habitats designated for conservation, in violation of the plans' commitment to prioritize oil and gas leasing and drilling outside sage grouse habitats.
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Further, the plans had helped federal agencies avoid the need to list the greater sage grouse under the Endangered Species Act, which could have triggered more restrictive land use policies across the region.
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When teenagers grouse about their chores, their hand-me-down phones or the discomfort of having braces, parents can worry that their adolescent is marching down the path toward becoming an entitled ingrate.
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The administration has also finalized changes to Obama-era protections for the sage grouse bird, in a move which could open up areas meant to protect the species for oil and gas extraction.
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While critics grouse about the lack of creativity such projects exhibit, developing them represents a content-driven solution to a marketing problem, one that recognizes changes in both the TV and journalistic ecosystems.
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In a March 2018 letter, IPAA and other groups specifically thanked Bernhardt for Interior's regulation rollbacks and said they looked forward to working with the agency on revising sage grouse land-use policies.
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But the governors see the species law as ineffective, and want to see more species' protections handled like the sage grouse, which avoided formal protections last year in favor of state-led efforts.
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But in Wyoming, the limit is boosted to 22019 percent, almost twice as much, and enough to allow conventional, full-field oil and gas fields to be built inside sage grouse priority areas.
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"No one loves the sage grouse more than I do," Mr. Zinke said, in response to a question this month about his agency's early steps to review federal protections of the animal's habitat.
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The Obama-era plans were presented as an alternative to listing the greater sage-grouse under the Endangered Species Act because the plans were supposed to alleviate major threats to the grouse's habitat.
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Interior Secretary Ryan ZinkeRyan Keith ZinkeNew policy at Interior's in-house watchdog clamps down on interactions with press Overnight Energy: EPA proposes scrapping limits on coal plant waste | Appointee overseeing federal lands once advocated selling them | EPA lifts Obama-era block on controversial mine Latest appointee overseeing federal public lands once advocated to sell them MORE ordered a review of the sage grouse plans earlier this year, and in August released a report calling for changes to several sage grouse preservation strategies.
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For instance, an arrangement with private landowners to protect a threatened bird species, the sage grouse — and to prevent even more restrictive government protections — was a model of how cooperation can work, they said.
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After spending the winter huddled in sage brush, a twiggy shrub that carpets the plains and is the backdrop to a thousand Westerns, male grouse gather on patches of open ground known as leks.
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Zinke said a major focus of the review is to see if there are other actions that could help the sage grouse while being more flexible for states and businesses like oil and gas.
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According to a new analysis from Western Watersheds Project, the Department of Interior approved 28503,22019 10-year grazing permits inside Priority Habitats and Sagebrush Focal Areas since the new sage grouse plans were completed.
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But the new federal plans allow industrial projects to proceed, under terms and conditions that vary from state to state, even in the highest-priority grouse habitats identified for conservation in the new plans.
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While the men and and younger women (including Kate) stayed on for the shoot amid the heather on the grouse moors, Carole headed back to the castle with the Queen after lunch that day.
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Also Thursday, the administration moved to roll back restrictions on oil and gas drilling on millions of acres of Western land placed under an Obama-era conservation plan to protect the greater sage grouse.
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If you have a broader foot you might consider going with Danner's regular edition Grouse Boots, which come in brown as opposed to this year's camo, and are available with a wide sole option.
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So the next few years will be a challenge, as the agency drafts a plan to accommodate increasing visits while protecting the wildness, the dark skies, the moose and bear and the spruce grouse.
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In an election year filled with rancor and gridlock, legislators have a real opportunity to move the needle on this important issue by preserving the House-passed sage grouse language in the FY2017 NDAA.
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The 20133 report came out at a time when federal agencies were trying to identify gaps in a strategy to avoid listing greater sage grouse as a protected species under the Endangered Species Act.
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While fans of superhero movies always grouse about their casting, the selection of Mr. Affleck for "Batman v Superman" seemed to arouse an especially vehement and personal animus when it was revealed in 2013.
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That one might bite into one's mallard or grouse and land on stray birdshot is perhaps a badge of honor, proof that what's on your plate has a woodsier back story than the steak.
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Friday finalized its plan to loosen Obama-era protections on the habitat of the sage grouse, an imperiled ground-nesting bird that roams across 10 oil-rich Western states.
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On a typical night, guests sipped Famous Grouse whisky from plastic cups as Mr. Seidenberg held court and recommended books, while marijuana smoke leaked out from a discreet room containing Brazenhead's first-edition collection.
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Take, for example, one of the more controversial environmental regulations: a rule imposing restrictive land use plans on 11 states throughout the West, ostensibly to protect the greater sage grouse, a species of bird.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Many hedge fund managers have reason to cheer even as their investors grouse about lackluster returns; they are on track to reap a much larger payday for 2016 than for 2015.
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Many of those who have known Sag Harbor for decades as residents, renters or regular visitors grouse about the changes it has seen: more traffic, fancier shops, higher housing prices and bigger, showier homes.
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During the years leading up to the announcement, no matter who you asked, Republican or Democrat, everyone agreed that no one would benefit from the loss of habitat or listing of the sage-grouse.
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Unfortunately, Zinke and other politicians have other orders from special interests, and are now set on unraveling the sage-grouse land management plans, which could send the West right back down an uncertain path.
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This shift also gives new symbolism to the sage grouse: It's not just an indicator for its ecosystem, but an indicator of the power that fossil fuel and mining companies have over our government.
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The study predicted a further 9 percent population decline in the short-term, and a 15 percent decline over the long-term, for Wyoming's sage grouse populations, if the plan's protections were applied rigorously.
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His work is aligned with projects like the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Macaulay Library, which represents birds such as Wyoming's greater sage-grouse under threat by energy development, and the pollution-susceptible common loon.
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Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel Prize-winning diplomat and a leader of the opposition to Mr. Morsi, visited Mr. Heikal in his apartment overlooking the Nile to grouse about the Morsi presidency and strategize about alternatives.
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The Sierra Club calls the sage-grouse agreement that the BLM put in place about two years ago "a real bipartisan agreement" that was between the Obama administration and several Western governors, including two Republicans.
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A panel of respected judges, made up of photographers and photo editors, carefully chose the competition's 50 winning images, including the grand prize photo: "Black Grouse Showing Off" by photographer Audun Rikardsen of Tromsø, Norway.
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But his main grouse is that, although Dutch police allow the possession of small amounts of drugs for personal use, he is forbidden to stock more than 500 grams, and his purchases remain technically illegal.
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Supporters may grouse about the loss of a perceived champion, but very few of them are willing to leave the comforts of a familiar platform to venture out into the wilds of a new one.
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"With today's action we have leaned forward to address the various states' issues, while appropriately ensuring that we will continue to be focused on meaningfully addressing the threats to the Greater Sage-Grouse," he said.
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Two Western governors, Democrat John Hickenlooper of Colorado and Republican Matthew Mead of Wyoming, who co-chair a federal-state sage grouse task force, contradicted such a shift in a letter to Zinke last month.
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Through the collaborative efforts of states and federal agencies, private landowners, public land users, and the Western governors, this strategy prevented the need to add the grouse to the list of threatened and endangered species.
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I may not have understood the point of birding when I was off looking for courting sage grouse, but in that moment I understood why birders are about to return to Malheur with a vengeance.
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" Kathleen Sgamma, president of the Western Energy Alliance, an association of independent oil and gas companies based in Denver, said in an email, "These plans will conserve the sage grouse without needlessly stifling economic activity.
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Bush voided the five lease sales and required that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) change its procedures for oil and gas lease sales that are wholly or partially within sage grouse habitat management areas.
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Bush voided the five lease sales and required that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) change its procedures for oil and gas lease sales that are wholly or partially within sage grouse habitat management areas.
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Public calendars show Bernhardt attended at least three staff meetings related to the sage grouse, at least one of which included staffers who communicated with IPAA on the issue or met with the group's representatives.
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At the core of any successful public land management is collaboration amongst stakeholders on the ground, rarely has an effort entailed as much collaboration and cooperation as the process to create the sage-grouse plans.
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Last September, after years of planning, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) unveiled sage grouse plans that were filled with so many special-interest loopholes, you'd have thought the oil and livestock industries wrote them.
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" Nicki went on to grouse, "I put my blood sweat & tears in writing a dope album only for Travis Scott to have Kylie Jenner post a tour pass telling ppl to come see & Stormi. lol.
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My favorite place in the world is an old cabin in Wisconsin's Northwoods, where Heberlein relatives and friends have gathered every year for the past seven decades to hunt ruffed grouse and white-tailed deer.
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" But in June, the Trump administration's Interior director, Ryan Zinke, ordered a task force to review the plan to "protect sage grouse and its habitat while also ensuring conservation efforts do not impede local economic opportunities.
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According to Bureau of Land Management figures released in 2014, some 8.1 million acres of oil and gas leases involving important sage grouse habitats were pulled from federal lease auctions while the planning process was underway.
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Another issue that has bogged down negotiations in the past is a provision in the House bill that would prohibit listing the greater sage-grouse and the lesser prairie chicken as endangered species for 6900 years.
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The Moorland Association said each year the owners and sporting tenants of the 190 member grouse moors in England and Wales spent more than 50 million pounds on land management, helping to protect endangered bird species.
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Another issue that has bogged down negotiations in the past is a provision in the House bill that would prohibit listing the greater sage-grouse and the lesser prairie chicken as endangered species for 10 years.
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Washington (CNN)The Trump administration moved to amend Obama-era protections on the habitat of the sage grouse bird, potentially opening up vast areas of land in the western United States for oil and gas drilling.
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The haggling has turned off some Democrats who grouse privately that it has distracted from the vital task of plotting a winning agenda for the next Congress and an effective plan for taking on Mr. Trump.
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House conservatives may grouse, but if they're convinced the Senate's plan is the best they'll ever get, they could come around and vote to send skinny repeal without any changes to Trump's desk for his signature.
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The airline that carries its kingdom's flag traces its roots back 14 years to a flight between London and Paris which transported one paying passenger and freight that included clotted cream and several brace of grouse.
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The department's task force recommended that sage grouse not be protected under the Endangered Species Act and suggested changing land use guidelines in the states that indicated they thought there should be changes to the plans.
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"As part of its ongoing campaign to hand over public lands to fossil fuel companies, this administration is rolling back sage grouse protections that many stakeholders created together through a long and deliberative process," Grijalva said.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Efforts to protect the greater sage grouse, a bird found in the western United States, do not pose a threat to the U.S. military, two senior Democratic House of Representatives lawmakers said on Tuesday.
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It was not unusual for teammates reaching for a bag of ice from the freezer in the trainer's room to find the breast of a grouse Pavelich had shot that day or a fish he had caught.
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First, putting the onus on state action risks losing sight of the original point of the conservation effort, which was to persuade a federal agency, the Fish and Wildlife Service, not to list the grouse as threatened.
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By elementary school, he was already big enough that other parents would grouse at his friends' birthday parties about how, whenever they broke the piñata, Kayvon would outmuscle the other children to the candy that spilled out.
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Gino Meekis, an experienced hunter and resident of Northwestern Ontario near Sioux Lookout, was with his wife and grandson hunting grouse on October 3rd about 50 kilometers outside of the town when they hear an odd howl.
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Conaway won't seek reelection: report MORE (R-Utah), would prevent the Interior Department's Fish and Wildlife Service from being able to list the greater sage-grouse and the lesser prairie chicken as endangered species for 10 years.
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And the administration also rolled back protections for the sage grouse, an imperiled bird that makes its home on millions of acres of oil-rich land in the West, in a bid to spur new oil exploration.
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Mr. Bernhardt's defenders point out, though, that the sage grouse policy is so broad that it would benefit dozens of companies and industries, including farmers, ranchers and real estate developers, not just former clients of Mr. Bernhardt.
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"By punching oil-rig-sized loopholes through these plans, the administration will drive the sage grouse closer to an endangered species listing," said Jesse Prentice-Dunn, policy director for the Center for Western Priorities, an advocacy group.
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The greater sage grouse, Florida scrub jay, and Baltimore oriole are among the 22019 percent of bird species in North America that are highly vulnerable to climate change, according to the report by the National Audubon Society.
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The same is true for the Gunnison sage grouse of western Colorado, for which a 2004 poll by Western State College in Gunnison showed that two-thirds of western Colorado residents thought the bird should be listed.
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The administration is considering a plan that would open nearly the entire US coastline to offshore drilling, and last week changed protections for the sage grouse that could open up more of the Western US to drilling.
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This includes a project alongside the Scottish government to preserve and extend native woodland in Glengarry forest, which they hope will encourage wildlife such as pine martens, ospreys, black grouse and red squirrel back to the area.
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Today, though, the grouse is under threat — its populations reduced to isolated pockets in western Kansas, Colorado and the Texas-New Mexico border as its habitat succumbs to climate-induced drought, farming, drilling and other human activity.
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But beyond the Unist'ot'en checkpoint, which anti-pipeline protesters have maintained for years, over 500 square miles of Wet'suwet'en-claimed land remains a refuge for spawning salmon as well as bears, moose, beaver, grouse, eagles and marten.
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They nest on cliff edges in the remote northern reaches of Canada and Alaska and are fierce predators, primarily of ptarmigan (a bird in the grouse family with feathered feet to help them walk in the snow).
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Members of his team liked to grouse off the record that the Washington think tank community was "Arab-occupied territory," implying that Gulf state money was exerting a systematic distorting influence over the Washington foreign policy elite.
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"I think that gas is one of those inelastic consumer items that people grouse about but really make little adjustment in the rest of their lives for, whether it's $2 a gallon or $5 a gallon," Dicker said.
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Represented by Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF), Tugaw Ranches, LLC, a family-owned ranch based in Idaho, sued the Departments of the Interior and Agriculture over their failure to submit controversial land use rules concerning the greater sage grouse.
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Taxpayers could be left holding the bag for more than $28503 billion in mine cleanup costs, without which important wildlife species, like mule deer, pronghorn, and sage grouse, will continue to decline due to degraded and fragmented habitat.
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The recent cooperative conservation effort for the greater sage-grouse showed how the states can play a major role in pre-list planning, as western governors committed to conservation solutions that precluded the need to list the bird.
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The riders prohibit spending on several other issues as well, including regulating lead in ammunition and fishing tackle, reintroducing grizzly bears to the Northern Cascades and reconsidering the status of the Sage Grouse on the endangered species list.
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I fear the day that the sage grouse mating dance is lost from sagebrush country and we look at a 5-degree Fahrenheit warmer globe and belatedly realize that we needed to leave that carbon in the ground.
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The Obama plan also limited construction of drilling infrastructure, such as pipelines and roads, in sage grouse habitat and required companies that drill in restricted areas to pay into a fund to preserve and protect other habitat areas.
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WASHINGTON — The Trump administration will seek to reconsider an Obama-era blueprint for protecting the greater sage grouse, a move that could lead to new mineral leasing, grazing and other commercial activities across the quirky bird's Western habitat.
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The Interior Department intends this week to publish a formal notice of intent to amend 98 sage grouse habitat management plans across 10 states, according to multiple agency and state officials who have been briefed on the effort.
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The changes could be challenged in court and could prompt some groups to petition the Fish and Wildlife Service to add the grouse and some 350 other species in the sagebrush steppe ecosystem to the endangered species list.
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The blaze started on Sunday on Saddleworth Moor, an expanse of hills cloaked in purple heather that is popular with hikers and home to bird species including the endangered golden plover and curlew and the common red grouse.
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Restrictions on industrial use were riddled with loopholes, but the Obama administration did remove 5 million acres of sage grouse habitat from oil and gas lease auctions; without leasing the land, the oil industry couldn't do much damage.
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The Departments of Interior and Agriculture went ahead with precisely the sort of heavy-handed federal regulation the states feared, imposing a new sage grouse rule that imposes severe land use restrictions on federal lands throughout the West.
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"Western States involved in the 2019 greater sage-grouse conservation plans overwhelmingly supported the plans on a bipartisan basis, which we firmly believe to be in the best interest of the American people," he said in a statement.
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The Trump administration on Friday released draft supplemental environmental impact statements on its attempts to weaken protections for the sage grouse bird after a judge ruled last year that its past statements likely did not meet legal requirements.
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A federal judge in Boise, Idaho has invalidated a Trump administration policy intended to help boost oil and gas exploration and development on nearly 800,000 acres where imperiled sage grouse live and voided leases sold under that policy.
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Similarly, the reason CEOs grouse about Democratic presidents while hailing similar economic performance under Republican presidents is that CEO's are wealthy older white men with conservative political opinions who like it when the GOP controls the White House.
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In 2010, when the US Fish and Wildlife Service declared the sage grouse warranted protection under the Endangered Species Act, both environmentalists and private landowners alike were galvanized to prevent the bird from being listed, albeit for different reasons.
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Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announced the 60-day review of sage grouse conservation rules in a Wednesday conference call with reporters, saying Western governors have complained that federal implementation of the plan has been alternately "heavy-handed" and inconsistent.
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The plight of the grouse, a key indicator species for America's dwindling sagebrush ecosystem, has pitted conservation groups against oil and gas drilling, wind farms and cattle grazing in one of the biggest industry-versus-nature conflicts in decades.
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" Similarly, Jesse Prentice-Dunn, policy director for the Center for Western Priorities, said "the Interior Department is punching oil rig-sized loopholes through the sage-grouse plans and preparing to gut the Endangered Species Act at the same time.
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In particular, his former client, the Independent Petroleum Association of America, has pressed for years to reduce federal protection measures on the habitat of the sage grouse, much of which is believed to contain rich deposits of fossil fuels.
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Matthew Mead of Wyoming, a Republican who has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in contributions from energy companies, admonished interior officials this year for excluding Western states in changes the agency was making to sage grouse protection efforts.
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Sage grouse, cerulean warblers, gopher tortoises, red-cockaded woodpeckers, longleaf pine, and native grasslands, along with the hundreds of other associated species, have shown a positive response from the proactive conservation measures made possible by the farm bill programs.
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To do so, they are advancing new oil and gas leases and repealing or revising rules on everything from hydraulic fracturing and venting and flaring on federal lands to land use restrictions via monument designations and sage grouse regulations.
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But one thing I do know is that dissolving the BLM headquarters and isolating resource experts will jeopardize species like sage-grouse, desert tortoises, mule deer, kit foxes, grizzly bears and falcons that the BLM is charged to protect.
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The Obama administration had launched the plan to protect the sage-grouse in September 2015 as an alternative to listing the ground-dwelling bird under the Endangered Species Act, a move that would potentially have entailed even tougher habitat protections.
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Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke last year had ordered a review of protections for the sage grouse to "ensure conservation efforts do not impede local economic opportunities" - one of numerous reviews of Obama-era environmental protections launched by President Donald Trump's administration.
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Now, that's not to say that the sage grouse fight is inconsequential — E&E News's Scott Streater has some good background on it — but it's a rather low-profile thing for a vice president to be spending his time on.
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Former President Barack Obama's 2015 plan to protect the ground-dwelling sage grouse imposed restrictions to development in their habitat but fell short of placing the bird on the endangered species list, which would have imposed far more rigid rules.
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At first Tyrese says there's no beef, but watch him ratchet up the rhetoric as he continues to grouse that the release date of 'F9' was pushed back to 2020 to accommodate The Rock's work schedule for the spin-off.
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It's not a perfect comparison — not all the acres that burned were sage grouse habitat, and the juniper treatment acres are a six-year total since 2628, but the overall sense of the numbers is a net loss of habitat.
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The transnational theme continues in an albacore ceviche made with horseradish in place of chili while the grouse will be cooked on the bone and smoked at the table with a British spin on almendrado, a mole reserved for special events.
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I'm not one to grouse about spoiler culture, and I realize that I'm opening myself up to criticism by saying this, but fuck it: it's just so rare that anything is truly surprising these days when it comes to television.
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Conaway won't seek reelection: report MORE (R-Utah), the amendment's sponsor, says it should be included because military installations in sage-grouse habitat would be negatively affected if the bird is declared endangered and that could affect our military readiness.
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In Western states, where about half of all land is controlled by federal agencies, Mr. Trump's supporters hope the pendulum swings back from what they say are overbearing Obama administration regulations that put sage grouse and owls ahead of economic growth.
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"Consistent with our unprecedented cooperation in developing the greater sage-grouse plans, the implementation policies we are releasing today were developed in coordination with our partners in the states and interested stakeholders," BLM Director Neil Kornze said in a statement.
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Over the course of a year, we wore the Filson X Danner Grouse Boots ($395) everywhere from the streets of Gotham to the Grand Tetons and can't find a thing wrong with them (though they only come in camo this year).
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Every week brings a new Politico story in which Democrats grouse about the party's resurgent left wing, warning that its pie-in-the-sky proposals and heterodox rhetoric threaten to squander the party's hard-earned electoral momentum under President Trump.
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The 565 parcels had originally been intended for a lease sale late last year, but a federal judge's order in September required BLM to provide additional public comment and a 30-day protest period for parcels in greater sage-grouse habitats.
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The city called it "emergency" repair, but residents of other buildings grouse that it got special treatment because important functionaries still live in some of its 700 apartments, including a senior Kremlin apparatchik who reportedly bought almost an entire floor.
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