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Idaho deal urges landowners to protect sage grouse
Idaho and the federal government have signed an agreement that offers incentive and protection for ranchers and landowners who voluntarily take conservation steps to improve the plight of the sage grouse. ...Todd Tucci, attorney for Advocates for the West, said the bigger challenge is dealing with sage grouse habitat on public land, where wind energy development, oil and natural gas drilling and cattle grazing pose thornier policy questions.
February 13, 2010
by Todd Dvorak
in Associated Press
BOISE, Idaho -- Idaho and the federal government have signed an agreement that offers incentive and protection for ranchers and landowners who voluntarily take conservation steps to improve the plight of the sage grouse and its declining habitat.
The agreement, hailed by federal wildlife officials as the first of its kind anywhere in the bird's range, for now targets an isolated population across 640,000 acres in southwest Idaho. But similar pacts are being negotiated elsewhere in Idaho, Wyoming and other western states inhabited by a species being considered for listing under the Endangered Species Act.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is... [continue via Web link]
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