Interior Department to Amend Protections for Sage Grouse

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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About the Author
 Dawn Hewitt is the managing editor for Bird Watcher's Digest and Watching Backyard Birds. She has been watching birds since 1979, and wrote a weekly birding column for The Herald Times newspaper in Bloomington, Indiana, for 11 years.

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