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BLM fails in its oversight of 155 million acres of grazing land in Colorado and 12 other Western states, lawsuit alleges

Environmental groups say mismanagement in Colorado threatens sage grouse, bighorn sheep

A Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep leaps over a fence near Almont, Colo., north of Gunnison, on Feb. 15, 2018. A lawsuit recently filed alleges the Bureau of Land Management isn't assessing the environmental impact of domestic sheep overlapping grazing areas with bighorns on land under BLM care. (Photo by Don Emmert/AFP via Getty Images)
A Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep leaps over a fence near Almont, Colo., north of Gunnison, on Feb. 15, 2018. A lawsuit recently filed alleges the Bureau of Land Management isn’t assessing the environmental impact of domestic sheep overlapping grazing areas with bighorns on land under BLM care. (Photo by Don Emmert/AFP via Getty Images)
Noelle Phillips of The Denver Post.
By | nphillips@denverpost.com | The Denver Post
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In Colorado, managers of BLM field offices are not performing environmental assessments on land where domestic sheep graze alongside bighorn sheep, and their mismanagement of grazing on rangelands is threatening sage grouse habitat, the lawsuit states.
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