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Nevada won a temporary reprieve from the Interior Department’s plans to enforce sweeping restrictions on land use as a means of protecting greater sage grouse habitat, but failed to convince […]
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Nevada wins sage grouse listing battle, but still faces land use restrictions
This past week Interior Secretary Sally Jewell declared that the greater sage grouse will not be listed under the Endangered Species Act, but instead created a federal land use plan […]
Sage Grouse battle continues
By Dave Maxwell Lincoln County Record Eureka congressman, U.S. Rep. Mark Amodei, ended 2014 locked in rolling feud with Interior Secretary Sally Jewell over the sage grouse in the western […]
The Mere Threat of Sage Grouse Being Listed as Threatened is Stifling Development
Interior Secretary Sally Jewell came to Nevada earlier this month and told a meeting of Western governors in Las Vegas that her department’s goal is to find ways to protect […]
Euthanasia needs to be an option for wild horses
Our government masters too often seem downright schizophrenic. Take the raging debates over what to do about two species — sage grouse and wild horses. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife […]
BLM seeking comments on Environmental Assessment
The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Battle Mountain District is making available for public review an Environmental Assessment (EA) for 139 parcels of public land nominated for lease within the […]
Heller opposes sage grouse listing
By Dave Maxwell Senator Dean Heller R-NV, spoke with reporters during a rural telephone conference call Feb. 4 focusing on the potential listing of the Sage Grouse under the Endangered […]
Protecting sage grouse: science or advocacy
Facts are stubborn, but statistics are pliable. In April 2012 Gov. Brian Sandoval set up a sage grouse advisory committee. Governors before him had done likewise. This past session the […]