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Interior Department to Amend Protections for Sage Grouse

Greater sage grouse, photo by Dawn Hewitt

The Trump administration published documents today (December 6, 2018) detailing its plan to roll back Obama-era protections for the vast habitat of the greater sage grouse in order to spur oil exploration and development, according to the New York Times. Read the story here.

The documents from the Bureau of Land Management are here.

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