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B5 THE ASTORIAN • SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2020 Unmotivated Trump plans would ease grown children protections for sage grouse By NICHOLAS K. GERANIOS Associated Press SPOKANE, Wash. — The Trump administration announced plans Thursday that ease protections for sage grouse in the West, prompt- ing an outcry by critics who say the move paves the way for widespread mining and drilling and ignores a federal court ruling. U.S. offi cials planned to formally publish what are called supplemental environ- mental impact statements on Friday for the management of greater sage grouse habitat on public lands in seven states. Publication in the Federal Register is part of a process that could allow the plans to take effect shortly before President Donald Trump leaves offi ce. The plans by the U.S. Bureau of Land Management ease rules on mining, drilling and grazing across millions of acres that the agency says refl ect the needs of West- ern communities and sage- brush-steppe habitat. The plans “better align the BLM’s management of sage-grouse habitat while addressing the circumstances and needs of each individual state,” said Casey Hammond, principal deputy assistant secretary for land and miner- als management. The ground-dwelling greater sage grouse is at the center of a bitter confl ict between the administration and conservationists involv- ing how much of the West’s expansive public lands should be opened to development. Sage grouse have been in decline for decades due to habitat loss and other fac- tors. The animals range across about 270,000 square miles in parts of 11 Western U.S. states and two Cana- dian provinces. Their num- bers have plummeted due to energy development, disease and other factors. Tom Koerner/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service U.S. offi cials plan to publish supplemental environmental impact statements for the management of greater sage grouse habitat on public lands in seven states. THE PLANS BY THE U.S. BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT EASE RULES ON MINING, DRILLING AND GRAZING ACROSS MILLIONS OF ACRES THAT THE AGENCY SAYS REFLECT THE NEEDS OF WESTERN COMMUNITIES AND SAGEBRUSH-STEPPE HABITAT. The birds are known for an elaborate mating ritual in which males fan their tails and puff out yellow air sacs in their chests as they strut around breeding grounds. They are not considered an endangered or protected species. The six plans cover Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Nevada and northeastern Cal- ifornia and Oregon. A pre- vious Trump administration plan relaxing sage grouse protections was rejected by a federal judge in 2019. In that order, U.S. Dis- trict Judge B. Lynn Winmill in Boise, Idaho, temporarily blocked the Trump adminis- tration from easing rules on mining, drilling and graz- ing, saying such activities left unchecked were likely to harm sage grouse. The supplemental envi- ronmental impact statements being published Friday are intended to address issues identifi ed in that order. But each plan reviewed by The Associated Press appears to have nearly iden- tical wording and does not appear to make any changes to the federal government’s sage grouse plan rejected by Winmill. Each state has its own director of land management signing off on the document. “I don’t think that’s going to fl y in court,” said Erik Molvar of Western Water- sheds Project. “I think this is an example of the Trump administration ignoring the judicial branch and trying to bulldoze and get its way despite the judge already say- ing that path is illegal.” Opponents said Thurs- day’s action is intended to make it harder for the incom- ing Biden administration to overturn the plans. “The Biden administra- tion would have to start all over again, develop new plans with notice and com- ment, and provide a clear jus- tifi cation as to why the plans are yet again being changed,’’ said Mary Greene, an attor- ney with the National Wild- life Federation. In a related case, a fed- eral judge in Montana in May dealt a blow to the adminis- tration’s efforts, saying offi - cials failed to protect sage grouse habitat when they issued energy leases on hun- dreds of square miles. U.S. District Judge Brian Mor- ris said the Interior Depart- ment did not do enough to encourage development out- side of areas with greater sage grouse. Under former President Barack Obama, the Interior Department delayed lease sales on millions of acres of public land largely because of worries that intensive devel- opment could harm sage grouse. In 2015, it adopted a set of wide-ranging plans meant to protect the best grouse habitat and keep the bird off the threatened and endangered species list. After Trump took offi ce in 2017, the agency modifi ed those plans to ease restric- tions on development, which meant offi cials no longer had to prioritize development out- side grouse habitat. Dear Annie: I have two have me in his life again that grown children living at he’d stay with me through home. Both are disrespectful thick and thin. Wrong! During a talk about our to me and to my husband. I feel obligated to allow them childhood viral diseases, I made the excruciat- to live here since DEAR ingly diffi cult deci- they don’t have any- ANNIE sion to tell him I had where to go, sta- GH. His response ble jobs or means of was, “Oh, wow!” transportation. How Then silence, fol- can I get rid of them lowed by a change and move on with of subject. We my life? — Tired hung up, and he of Carrying Grown ANNIE LANE has not called me or Children Creators answered my calls Dear Tired of Syndicate Inc. since. I am so bro- Carrying: Let them ken-hearted. Kenny stand on their own two feet. Ask your son and effectively told me that my daughter to start paying rent having GH negated every or to fi nd their own places. single good quality that he If you feel guilty, as though saw in me. So Annie, what do you that’s too much to ask, then just imagine if you were say to people like me who do in their shoes: Would you the right thing and to people expect your mom and dad to like Kenny who are on the pay your way well into your receiving end of this news? There are a lot of us out there 20s and 30s? I think not. They are grown adults who have GH. — Rejected Dear Rejected: To those capable of taking care of themselves. By letting them on the receiving end of this fi nd that out, you’ll be doing news, I’d say keep an open them a favor in the long run. mind. HSV-2 is more com- Dear Annie: I con- mon than you’d think. In tracted genital herpes 35 the United States, more than years ago when a sex partner 1 in 6 people between the failed to tell me he had this ages of 14 and 49 have gen- virus. Over time, outbreaks ital herpes, according to the became shorter, less frequent Centers for Disease Con- and virtually painless. Based trol and Prevention. HSV-1 on talks with others with GH, (which causes oral herpes) is this is typical of the virus’ even more prevalent, infect- progression. Most claim that ing around two-thirds of the the worst thing about hav- global population, according ing GH is confessing this to a to the World Health Organi- prospective sex partner. I did zation. There are many ways to have a safe and fulfi ll- this recently. “Kenny” and I dated ing sex life despite a herpes briefl y 44 years ago, and diagnosis. To those who have been then parted to lead separate lives while on active duty. rejected after sharing their He called me out of the blue status with a potential part- last summer, and we began ner, I’d say chin up. Hav- talking and texting every day. ing this sexually transmitted We believed we had a lot in disease is not exceptional; common and might some- having the moral fortitude day be together. He regularly to disclose it is. 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