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The Trump administration is scrapping a collaborative sage grouse protection plan to expand oil and gas drilling

  • Written by John Freemuth, Cecil D. Andrus Endowed Chair for Environment and Public Lands and University Distinguished Professor, Boise State University
Female sage grouse at the Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge, Wyoming.USFWS/Tom Koerner, CC BY

The Trump administration has released plans to open up nine million acres of sage grouse habitat in six western states to oil and gas drilling. This initiative dramatically cuts back an elaborate plan developed under the Obama administration to steer...

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