U.S. judge blocks Nevada grazing; sage grouse totals dwindling
U.S. judge blocks Nevada grazing; sage grouse totals dwindling (Rick Egan | Tribune file photo) Two Sage-Grouse fight for dominance while strutting on a lek in the Parker Mountain area, near Loa, Utah, Friday, April 22, 2016. By Scott Sonner | The Associated Press | April 1, 2021, 4:03 p.m. Reno, Nev. • A federal judge has blocked a Nevada project that would expand livestock grazing across 400 squares miles of some of the highest priority sage-grouse habitat in the West and accused the government of deliberately misleading the public by underestimating damage the cattle could do to the ...