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RENO, Nev. (AP)-- Newmont Mining Corp. officials signed an agreement Tuesday with the U.S. government and the state of Nevada to protect some of the most critical sage grouse habitat in the West in exchange for assurances it will be allowed to develop...
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The umbrella species concept is one surrogate species strategy in which a species with large area requirements — such as the greater sage grouse — is provided sufficient protected habitat.
«We found this core area for sage grouse covered about 20 percent of their (Wyoming pocket gophers») habitat in the state,» he says.
The established umbrella reserve, a sagebrush - steppe ecosystem in Wyoming, protected 82 percent of the state's greater sage grouse population and 0 - 63 percent of the habitat of the background species studied.
Sage grouse are on the decline, and scientists think that (in addition to habitat loss) the problem may be that noise pollution from natural gas development in their native areas across the western United States interferes with successful mating.
«Increases in Common Raven distribution and abundance in the American west mirror declines in distribution and abundance of Greater Sage - Grouse, where energy transmission corridors and other land use changes have altered sagebrush steppe habitat,» said David Delehanty of ISU.
A new study by the Wildlife Conservation Society, Idaho State University and the U.S. Geological Survey suggests that habitat fragmentation and the addition of makeshift perches such as transmission polls in sagebrush ecosystems are creating preferred habitat for common ravens that threaten sensitive native bird species, including greater sage grouse.
As the result of our settlement, in 2013, the Service proposed Endangered Species Act protection for the Mono Basin sage grouse, along with a proposed designation of 1,868,017 acres of critical habitat (at a point at which the population had declined by up to 70 percent).
The greater sage grouse as a species isn't having it much easier: Under the new Trump administration, in June 2017 Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announced plans for a «review» threatening to undermine efforts to protect the greater sage grouse across 11 western states, therebygiving big oil companies and other polluters potential new access to vital grouse habitat.
But sage grouse «leks,» or mating grounds, are becoming less and less lively as habitat dwindles and numbers decline — especially in the Mono Basin area, where an isolated, genetically distinct population is holding on by a thread.
An analysis by the American Bird Conservancy (ABC) shows that more than 30,000 turbines overlap with federally protected bird habitat, including 24,000 in the migratory corridor of the whooping crane and 3,000 in breeding grounds of the endangered Greater Sage - Grouse.
In a related action, the DOI also cordoned off nearly 10 million of acres of public land as sage grouse habitat and prohibited any economic activity on the land, such as mining or fracking.