Jim Lyons: Don’t let Congress circumvent the Endangered Species Act

It’s rare in any sphere, and especially conservation, to achieve a working consensus on a complex and divisive issue. But in 2015, 11 states, three federal agencies and a multitude of stakeholders endorsed a landscape-level conservation plan to protect the greater sage-grouse on more than 60 million acres of public lands.The Greater Sage-Grouse Conservation Strategy required years to produce and cost more than $45 million to develop and implement. This commitment delivered a conservation s