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Judith Kohler of AP covers the controversial conservation efforts involving Greater Sage-grouse protection. The story is published in the CasperTribune - ‘We’re losing birds’.

Loss of habitat is the culprit ~ the birds prefer not to have their mating grounds, leks, disturbed - and who’d blame ‘em? Current efforts are inadequate ~ listing is warranted ~ unfortunately, the politicization of U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (FWS) has rendered the agency more responsive to the livestock industry than the science - or the letter of the law. Western Watersheds Project has filed suit, which is currently pending.

Click the FWS photo to watch a short video clip of the Greater Sage-grouse.

Jim Caswell, Kempthorne’s tap for BLM chief and current head of Idaho Office of Species Conservation, has a special way of manuevering pesky “science” and public oversight - that, or he folds to industry like a cheap suit.

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