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Sage Grouse Not To Be Listed

March 5, 2010

Energy groups relieved sage grouse won’t be listed

 An Interior Department announcement Friday that it won’t list sage grouse as an endangered or threatened species opens the way for continued development of the West’s wind energy and oil and gas industries.

Those industries will still face scrutiny in sage grouse habitat but much less so than if the bird were listed.

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Basin Boy March 8, 2010 at 10:29 am

Once in awhile a little common sense emerges, even from the federal government.

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