sage-grouse

Lawsuit Challenges Gold Drilling in Sage Grouse Habitat in California’s Eastern Sierra Nevada

Conservation groups sued the U.S. Forest Service today to stop exploratory drilling in California’s eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains that threatens an endangered fish and a dwindling population of bi-state sage grouse. “This drilling project will cause exactly the kind of noise and commotion that make bi-state sage grouse abandon their habitat. The Forest Service should absolutely know better,” said Ileene Anderson, a senior scientist at the Center for Biological Diversity. “It’s appalling that the Forest Service is willing to push these beautiful dancing birds closer to extinction for a toxic mine. We’ll do everything possible to prevent another species from being lost forever, but we urgently need the court’s help.”

Lawsuit Challenges Gold Drilling in Sage Grouse Habitat in California’s Eastern Sierra Nevada

Conservation groups sued the U.S. Forest Service today to stop exploratory drilling in California’s eastern Sierra Nevada Mountains that threatens an endangered fish and a dwindling population of bi-state sage grouse.

New Sage Grouse Plans Put Wildlife, Climate at Risk

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The Trump administration today is expected to publish new conservation plans for the endangered greater sage grouse. The revised plans, which will apply to lands managed by the Forest Service, follow rollbacks adopted by the Interior Department earlier this year. Together the plans will undermine sage grouse conservation efforts on millions of acres of public land across western states, and set back carefully-crafted plans years in the making.