21-09-2016 23:33 via denver.cbslocal.com

Interior Department Touts Efforts To Protect Sage Grouse

DENVER (AP) – Interior Secretary Sally Jewell is in Colorado to tout efforts to save the greater sage grouse across the West one year after the federal government decided not invoke the Endangered Species Act to protect the rare bird.
Jewell traveled to a wildlife refuge outside Denver Wednesday as the Interior Department released a report listing steps taken so far to save the birds.
They include studies on the effects of energy development, new satellite-based maps to locate key habitat
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