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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.
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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
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GH. His response
ble jobs or means of
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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
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Children
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that’s too much to ask, then
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expect your mom and dad to like Kenny who are on the
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fi nd that out, you’ll be doing news, I’d say keep an open
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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-
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