WyoFile: Feds resume oil and gas leasing review, and will add climate impact analysis.

Legal and political realities seem to have tempered the administration’s ambitions for ending fossil fuel extraction on federal lands.

For years, an obscure budget provision has blocked the federal government from protecting the fast-declining birds. That may be about to change.

A new study in Oregon shows that removing conifers has helped the imperiled bird’s local numbers grow more quickly.

The Bureau of Land Management will respond to recent court decisions with new effort to reinstate plans to help struggling sage grouse populations.

Outlining steep losses and a gloomy future for the bird without action, a new government report aims to stem further declines with an advanced monitoring program.

The president also set a goal of conserving 30 percent of the country’s land and water by 2030 and took steps to boost the clean-energy economy.

Western conservation groups applaud Biden administration’s plan to conserve and restore 30 percent of the nation’s lands and waters by 2030.

(From Earthjustice) Saving the greater sage-grouse was one of the largest conservation efforts in U.S. history. When the Trump administration tried to sacrifice it to oil and gas, the bird’s champions flew to its rescue.

BirdNote's new podcast uses Sage-Grouse to tell a story about hope, compromise, and life in rural America.