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Bennet, Colleagues Push for Resources for Sage Grouse Conservation Efforts

Press Release

Date: May 26, 2015
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: Animals and Wildlife

Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet today led a group of senators in urging the Senate Appropriations Committee to include full funding for conservation of the Gunnison and Greater sage grouse.

In a letter to Appropriations Committee Chairman Thad Cochran and Ranking Member Barbara Mikulski, the senators wrote, "The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) requested funding to implement sage grouse conservation actions, the Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) requested funding for sagebrush ecosystem conservation, and the USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) requested funding to continue implementing their Sage Grouse Initiative to promote conservation on private lands. These funding pools are essential to ensuring that efforts to improve habitat through restoration, enhancement, and conservation easements continue and are effective. These collective efforts represent our best strategy to maintain and conserve grouse populations, and hopefully will help to prevent the need for sage grouse species to be managed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA)."


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