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THE ASTORIAN • SATURDAY, OCTOBER 5, 2019
Environmentalists sue to reinstate grazing prohibitions
By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI
Capital Press
Environmentalists want to reinstate
grazing prohibitions on 22,000 acres
across 13 sites in Eastern Oregon to
improve studies of sage grouse habitat.
The Oregon Natural Desert Asso-
ciation, Audubon Society of Portland
and Defenders of Wildlife have fi led
a lawsuit seeking to overturn a federal
plan that re-opened the “research natu-
ral areas” to cattle earlier this year.
Banning grazing from the 13 sites
is necessary for the U.S. Bureau of
Land Management to understand how
cattle affect “sage brush plant com-
munities,” since there are “almost no
ungrazed areas on public lands” within
the bird’s range in Eastern Oregon, the
complaint said.
“If implemented as approved, BLM
through this plan amendment will
abandon science, severely limiting the
agency’s ability to contribute to con-
servation of the sage grouse,” accord-
ing to the environmental plaintiffs.
A representative of the BLM said
the agency doesn’t comment on pend-
ing litigation as a matter of policy.
Jerome Rosa, executive direc-
tor of the Oregon Cattlemen’s Asso-
ciation, said the organization is con-
cerned by the lawsuit because it took
a lot of work to persuade the Interior
Department and BLM to restore graz-
ing within the “research natural areas.”
“Grazing is compatible with sage
grouse habitat,” while research can
still occur in areas that are grazed,
Rosa said.
“They’re really important to the
ranchers who make their living on
those areas,” he said.
Controversies over the bird’s sta-
tus under the Endangered Species Act
are deep-rooted in the West, where its
population has substantially declined
in the past two centuries.
Environmentalists long pushed
for the sage grouse to be protected
as a threatened or endangered spe-
cies, but the federal government ulti-
mately decided such a listing wasn’t
warranted in 2015 after fi nding that
resource management plans and con-
servation agreements would suffi -
ciently protect the bird.
Under the resource management
plans for Oregon, the Obama adminis-
tration eliminated grazing from nearly
22,000 acres within the 13 “research
natural areas” that would serve as a
control baseline in scientifi c studies.
In 2019, however, the Trump admin-
istration updated Oregon’s RMPs to
once again permit cattle within those
areas due to “economic impacts to cer-
tain livestock operators.”
The environmental plaintiffs claim
this change violates the National Envi-
ronmental Policy Act because the
BLM “failed to give good reasons for
its reversal of policy” and didn’t take
the required “hard look” at the policy’s
environmental impacts.
The policy shift also violates the
Federal Land Policy and Management
Act due to the range degradation and
impairment from grazing, which is
“a destructive and inconsistent use of
these specially-protected areas,” the
complaint said.
The Oregon Cattlemen’s Associ-
ation believes the “massive” amount
of acreage within the 13 sites is exces-
sive, since research can occur on
smaller plots, said Rosa, the group’s
executive director. “They can have
control areas within those allotments
without it being such a large size and
scale.”
U.S. Fish and Wildlife
A greater sage grouse, rear, struts for a female at a lek, or mating ground. An environmental lawsuit aims
to restore grazing prohibitions on 22,000 acres across 13 sites in Eastern Oregon.
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