An op-ed by our Policy Director and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER):

"These loopholes are being exploited by the energy industry and local BLM managers to the detriment of the sage grouse and the fragile sagebrush habitat they depend on."

#BureauofLandManagement #sagegrouse #sagebrush #Advocacy

https://www.wyomingnews.com/opinion/guest_column/rosenthal-and-osher-groups-sound-alarm-over-hidden-threat-to-sage-grouse-in-wyoming/article_030337e4-c8e9-11ed-8d09-4b4866a063e0.html

Photo: Tom Koerner/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

With friends like these...

"The Wyoming BLM granted approximately 90% of the 127 industry applications for exemptions from protective stipulations designed to protect #sagegrouse by safeguarding the weeks when the birds breed and nest from outside disturbances."

https://www.westernwatersheds.org/2023/03/blm-oil-exemptions-threaten-sage-grouse-in-wyoming/

IMAGE CREDIT: Christian Hagenlocher, CC BY 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons

While all the investors in #LithiumNevada watch their wallets fatten, we'll be watching the ongoing erasure of #Paiute cultural history, the permanent destruction of #Sagegrouse habitat, and the probable extinction of #kingsRiverPyrg.

There are things worth more than money.

https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/9th-circuit-denies-emergency-bid-halt-nevada-lithium-97564236

Species have already been lost to this type of extraction/land use. It's also hard to trust mining companies to steward the land properly. The ground water is already contaminated by mineral extraction where I'm at. I doubt the results here will differ #nevada #sagegrouse
https://m.lasvegassun.com/news/2023/feb/24/us-judge-wont-block-huge-lithium-mine-on-nevada-or/

“We don’t know yet what the next steps will be, but we know we won’t stop fighting this destructive mine,” said Greta Anderson, deputy director of Western Watersheds Project in a statement Tuesday. “We need to find truly just and sustainable solutions for the climate crisis, and not by digging ourselves deeper into the biodiversity crisis.” #PeeheeMuhuh #ThackerPass #SageGrouse #Biodiversity

https://www.nevadacurrent.com/2023/02/07/thacker-pass-lithium-mine-clears-most-legal-challenges-minus-a-judge-ordered-waste-rock-review/

This ruling ain't great, folks, but there's fight in us yet. #PeeheeMuhuh #ThackerPass #SageGrouse

https://thenevadaindependent.com/article/judge-largely-affirms-federal-permit-for-thacker-pass-lithium-mine-near-winnemucca

“The Bureau of Land Management is hoping the third time’s the charm on a federal blueprint designed to save the greater sage grouse and its dwindling sagebrush habitat.”
https://lnkd.in/eB25V7Fb

My name is on page 9 : )
“Annotated bibliography of scientific research on greater sage-grouse published since January 2015”
https://lnkd.in/eTD3bge5

“Annotated Bibliography of Scientific Research on Greater Sage-Grouse Published from 2015 to 2019”
https://lnkd.in/e2XHTvie

#sagegrouse
#science #librarian

greater sage grouse...

#sagegrouse #bird #animatedgif