![]() “We have very strict stipulations that would go on those leases - where they could go in a core area what they can do.” “I think it’s maybe a bit of overreaction,” Bob Budd said of the letter. “We are writing with a sense of great urgency to request that you intervene immediately,” the letter from WOC and Audubon says.īut the state has a method of protecting grouse even in this area, the head of the Sage Grouse Implementation Team told WyoFile on Monday. “I’m shocked and dismayed that the BLM would lease such large acreages right on top of the highest density of sage-grouse in Wyoming and on Earth,” Christiansen wrote WyoFile in an email.Ĭhristiansen took his worries regarding the BLM plans to the Wyoming Outdoor Council and Audubon Rockies office who, in turn, wrote Gov. In that Golden Triangle, more than 800 male grouse strut annually on irreplaceable mating grounds called leks, retired Game and Fish biologist Tom Christiansen said. The rolling sagebrush landscape there on the borders of Sublette, Sweetwater and Fremont counties is home to “the healthiest sage-grouse population on the planet,” the former Wyoming Game and Fish statewide greater sage grouse biologist told WyoFile. The Bureau of Land Management began auctioning 758,198 acres of federal acres of oil and gas leases Monday, including some in a pristine area northeast of Farson biologists call the Golden Triangle. Mark Gordon on Friday asking him to intervene in a BLM oil and gas lease sale that targets what one sage grouse expert calls “the highest grouse density areas on Earth.” Thanks for your support of WyoFile! We rely on loyal members like you to sustain our reporting and grow the WyoFile community.Ĭonservationists sent an emergency letter to Gov.
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