Saving the Sage Grouse
Saving the Sage Grouse
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Saving The Sage Grouse: Is Just The Threat Of An Endangered Species Listing Enough?
4 minutes Posted Sep 11, 2015 at 9:02 am.
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Alarm bells echoed across the West in 2010 when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service warned that the greater sage grouse could be put on the Endangered Species List. The end of this month is the deadline for a final decision. In the interim, there has been an enormous amount of work done to protect the bird – enough to suggest a threat is sometimes big enough to get the job done. Could this have been the intent all along? To make the threat big enough so that an actual listing might be avoided?