1 threat to the greater sage grouse in Idaho worse,” Bedke said. Steve Bullock of Montana have expressed concern that altering existing plans could undermine efforts to prevent a listing. “Those plans were essential to keeping sage grouse from becoming endangered,” he wrote in a Nov. 7 letter to Zinke. “It’s a tall order.”Donnelly, whose Arizona-based group has sued over failure to list hundreds of species, said the intent of the Obama amendments “was very clear: Prevent the listing of the sage grouse.” That goal seems to have gotten lost, he said. “Are we still committed to conserving sage grouse, or is the intention to mine and drill every acre of the West?

Source: National Post November 11, 2017 17:49 UTC