Western Watersheds Project: Greens - Proposed Mineral Withdrawal Insufficient for Declining Sage Grouse
August 11, 2021
August 11, 2021
WASHINGTON, Aug. 11 (TNSPol) -- The Western Watersheds Project issued the following news release on Aug. 11, 2021:
Yesterday, the Bureau of Land Management (Bureau) announced it is reopening a process to withdraw certain greater sage grouse habitats known as Sagebrush Focal Areas (SFAs) from damaging mining. The proposal would reinstate a process that was started under the 2015 sage grouse Obama-era plan amendments, and which was halted abruptly by the Trump administration in 2017. . . .
Yesterday, the Bureau of Land Management (Bureau) announced it is reopening a process to withdraw certain greater sage grouse habitats known as Sagebrush Focal Areas (SFAs) from damaging mining. The proposal would reinstate a process that was started under the 2015 sage grouse Obama-era plan amendments, and which was halted abruptly by the Trump administration in 2017. . . .