Feds reject endangered status for sage grouse
By Rich Landers, Spokesman-Review
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has determined after a four year-study that the greater sage-grouse does not warrant protection under the Endangered Species Act as long as states and ranchers work to improve the plight of the bird on 60 million acres of sagebrush lands across 11 western states.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s decision to give state and federal conservation efforts an opportunity to save the sage grouse and its habitat offers a reprieve from stifling restrictions that could have been inflicted on ranchers and local economies that depend on this Western landscape.
Interior Secretary Sally Jewell made the announcement today backed by state governors at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge near Denver. Federal officials say the greater sage grouse won’t need the protections of the Endangered Species Act because of the safeguards in state and federal conservation plans and work by private landowners.
“…. as long as states and ranchers work to improve the plight of the bird on 60 million acres of sagebrush lands across 11 western states.”
Well, there goes the neighborhood.
Well this is a death sentence for the sage grouse if the state and ranchers are given the task of keeping its habitat intact. This will be revisited again and again until they are all gone. Then it wont matter…
If misguided people think the feds are capable of managing anything other than ever growing debt and growing government then they need a reality check. This is about conservation and the feds have never known what that is yet after the turn of the last century.
Justanass. BS. IMHO
Ill-Natured Bat has nothing to add yet again. Empty-headed liberal at work.
The Grouse have been observed making a huge come back. They are not even close to becoming endangered like we wish Bats was. EEEhhhehheeeeeee
Kits- Speak for yourself. I am happy that Bats is not extinct and BTW the proper form of the verb you used is “were” not “was”. It is the conjunctive tense and is used when expressing something that hasn’t actually happened as when using the word “if” or expressing a wish. Your wish is that Bats ‘were’ extinct.
Oh the horror, kitty litter hates bats. And justanass still is…
No, Isee you are wrong. I used it properly. I don’t wish Bats as plural were extinct, just nature Bats last. But I don’t really want nature bats extinct….I enjoy the blogging banter.
I suspect Bats is one of those people who would not survive were it not for government intervention. Minimal real survival skills, little understanding of the cycles of nature, and a desperate need to intervene where she is likely to need rescue rather than being of actual help to anyone.
The sage grouse will do just fine. It thrives on grazed range land, as anybody who has done any research would know.
The PBS special does not agree with your conclusions about the sage grouse, Dogula.
Your assertions about Nats say more about you than they do about her.
Justn@ss. The poor little Sage Grouse is going to be “protected” by Ranchers. Sure, like Whales were protected by Wailers, Rhino’s were protected by the Rhino Horn Traders or Elephants were protected by Ivory Traders. I am skeptical.
The “FEDS” managed to: create National Parks (Lincoln), defeat Hitler (FDR), invent Nuclear Weapons (FDR/Truman), create the Interstate Highway System (Ike) and send Men to the Moon and back (Kennedy). Can the same be said for ranchers?
HAHAHAHAHA. Sticks and Stones…
Hmmm, isee, rock, thanks for the votes of confidence. Kitty litter and wrongula are 180 degrees from even close. Yes, the banter creates a little humor but the ignorance is mind boggling….
Yes Bat head, yours is mind boggling. Admission is the first step…..LOL. I don’t see much hope for you but enjoy you as a target.
Can you imagine if kitty litter has children?! (She does). What maladjusted little cretins they must be. Generational idiocy.
So kitty litter is a woman? I always pictured an angry ageing white guy wearing cowboy boots and a ted nugent t shirt that shows a bit of midriff clutching a stinky cigarette. Oh, and kicking the mangy dog while throwing his garbage out the truck window…
guess im wrong….go figure…
Same appearance and demeanor. Different sex. :)