Feds to spend $211 million to cement teamwork for saving greater sage grouse

Federal wildlife officials will spend at least $211 million more to spur states, landowners and developers to save the imperiled greater sage grouse voluntarily across a sagebrush steppe area spanning 11 western states.
Colorado, other states and the energy industry also must do more to help grouse to avoid triggering mandatory federal controls — that’s the gospel of “collaborative conservation” Interior Secretary Sally Jewell and Gov. John Hickenlooper are preaching Wedn