Biden mulls new protections for sage grouse in effort to reverse Trump rules
by Edward Helmore from Environment | The Guardian on (#5S578)
Proposed regulations come after decades of loosening protections as bird loses grassland habitat across western US
The Biden administration is considering new protections for the greater sage grouse, a bird known for the strutting and puffed-up courtship displays of males, that is losing grassland habitat across the western US to climate change and pressure from industrial development.
The sage grouse, known also for a bubbling sound during courtship, is fast-becoming emblematic of Biden's efforts to reverse Trump-era relaxations of environmental protections across vast swaths of public federal lands across the region.
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