CRAIG, Colo.—The federal Bureau of Land Management wants to hear from the public about its sage grouse protection effort in Colorado.
The agency is drawing up a plan to include sage grouse conservation measures into its resource management plans for offices covering about 1.8 million acres in Colorado. A meeting is planned Tuesday in Craig.
According to Steamboat Today ( ), Interior Secretary Ken Salazar promised new greater sage grouse conservation rules aimed at protecting sagebrush habitat in 10 western states for the bird.
The federal government announced in 2010 that sage grouse deserve protection under the federal Endangered Species Act but held off listing the bird immediately because other species were of more immediate concern. A final determination whether to list them is due by late 2015.
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Information from: Steamboat Pilot & Today,
