Western Watersheds Project: Caught Ignoring Its Own Sage Grouse Scientists, BLM Forced To Withdraw Grazing Decision For Massive 270,000-Acre Allotment In Southeast Idaho
January 06, 2023
January 06, 2023
HAILEY, Idaho, Jan. 6 (TNSgov) -- The Western Watersheds Project issued the following news release on Jan. 5, 2023:
A judge has blocked a decision that would have authorized the grazing of over 16,000 domestic sheep on the Twin Buttes allotment, a vast swath of public lands nearly half the size of Rhode Island. Under the now vacated decision, sheep would have been turned out to graze throughout the winter on top of what the BLM's own team of sage grouse scientists identified as one . . .
A judge has blocked a decision that would have authorized the grazing of over 16,000 domestic sheep on the Twin Buttes allotment, a vast swath of public lands nearly half the size of Rhode Island. Under the now vacated decision, sheep would have been turned out to graze throughout the winter on top of what the BLM's own team of sage grouse scientists identified as one . . .