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Subject FUCK YOU Sage Grouse - Trump wants oil exploration

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I used to hunt Sage Grouse with my old bird dogs.   They are good table fare,  tasted kind of like roast beef.   They are an indicator species (like a canary in a coalmine).

They get pretty big too.   The young fryers are about 3-4 lbs and the mature birds are 5-7 lbs.   When they take off it scares the daylights out of you,  your dog will get birdy and all of a sudden half a dozen will erupt right up from the sage .

When they fly they will get going fast and then set their wings and coast off a long ways.   When they are coasting,  they will intermittently do a twist or a maneuver to change their trajectory in a haphazard way so the eagles can't pick them off in the air.

Over the last decade or so,  they have taken a pounding from the wildfires burning up their habitat,  and West nile virus killed off a bunch too.

The limit used to be 2 a day in mid to end of sept in Idaho,  and in oregon it is 2 per year (and you have to get a seperate permit for them for whatever unit you apply in)

I never hunted them in Oregon,  because the season is when it is still really hot,  and the dogs can get into rattlesnakes etc.
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Original Message Trump Plans Major Rollback of Sage Grouse Protections to Spur Oil Exploration

WASHINGTON — The Trump administration on Thursday published documents detailing its plan to roll back Obama-era protections for the vast habitat of the greater sage grouse, a chickenlike bird that roams across nearly 11 million acres in 10 oil-rich Western states.

The earlier proposal to protect the bird, whose waning numbers have brought it close to endangerment, was put forth under the Interior Department in 2015 and set out to ban or sharply reduce oil and gas drilling in 10.7 million acres of its habitat.

The Trump plan, by contrast, would limit the grouse’s protected habitat to just 1.8 million acres, essentially opening up nine million acres of land to drilling, mining and other development.

According to several environmental policy experts, the legal plan to roll back the sage grouse protections would open up more land to drilling via one policy change than other Trump administration moves to date. The plan, which is expected to be made final in 2019, is one in a series of actions, most performed by the Interior Department, designed to spur more oil and gas drilling across the nation’s public lands and waters.

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