<div dir="ltr"><div>If you care about Sage Grouse, wildlife habitat and science-based public lands and wildlife management....</div><div><br></div><div>Please look beyond some of the hype regarding the 'historic' 'collaborative' effort to NOT protect the Sage Grouse and its habitat under the Endangered Species Act and TAKE ACTION to ensure that Sage Grouse get the protection needed to fend off extinction. </div><div><br></div>Thanks,<div>Matthew Koehler</div><div>WildWest Institute</div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">WildEarth Guardians</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:action@wildearthguardians.org">action@wildearthguardians.org</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 12:55 PM<br>Subject: Speak Up for the Sage Grouse<br>To: Matthew Koehler <<a href="mailto:koehler@wildrockies.org">koehler@wildrockies.org</a>><br><br><br>
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<p><span style="font-family:verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:120%">Weak Federal Plans + Endangered Species Act Denial = Extinction<br></span></p>
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<p style="text-align:left"><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:120%">Dear </span>
<span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:120%">Supporter</span><span style="font-family:times new roman">, </span></p>
<p><a href="http://wg.convio.net/site/R?i=eRugBFxE17-Gr8HOK18oGw" target="_blank"><img style="float:right;margin-bottom:12px;margin-left:12px" src="http://wg.convio.net/images/content/pagebuilder/Noppadol_Paothong_GRSG_2_crop.jpg" border="0" alt="greater sage grouse pc Noppadol Paothong" width="250" height="185"></a><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:120%">On Tuesday Interior Secretary Sally Jewell denied Endangered
Species Act protections for the imperiled greater sage grouse and
simultaneously announced a series of half measures in new federal sage grouse
plans that cover public lands across 10 western states.</span> </p>
<p><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:120%">We believe we can and we must do better for this incredibly
unique and beautiful bird. Please <a href="http://wg.convio.net/site/R?i=BJK6VFGdRhuNr8XXc20nPg" target="_blank"><strong style="font-family:Times,"Times New Roman",serif">join
us</strong></a> in telling President Obama to do better for sage grouse.</span> </p>
<p><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:120%">Some conservation groups hailed the plans as the biggest and
most complex conservation effort we’ve ever seen. And that’s true. But it’s
certainly not the most competent or effective conservation effort because the
plans don’t follow the science. Unfortunately, they are riddled with <a href="http://wg.convio.net/site/R?i=0BRu2-xqw12sHNR_p-8OWg" target="_blank">fatal
weaknesses</a> that will undermine sage grouse conservation and allow
extractive industries into even the most sensitive sage grouse habitats.</span> </p>
<p><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:120%"><img src="http://wg.convio.net/images/content/pagebuilder/For_Sage_Grouse_Story-Credit_WildEarth_Guardians.jpg" border="0" alt="Jonah Drilling in Sage Grouse Habitiat pc WG" hspace="10" vspace="8" width="250" height="187" align="left">WildEarth Guardians is not joining the chorus declaring a
decisive conservation victory and a final solution to sage grouse conservation
because though the plans are certainly better than nothing, they don’t get us
across the finish line.</span> </p>
<p><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:120%"><strong style="font-family:Times,"Times New Roman",serif">While others may prematurely
declare victory, we’ll fight on for the sage grouse and the health of the
Sagebrush Sea across the American West.</strong></span> </p>
<p><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:120%">Despite a population uptick over the last two years, sage
grouse numbers are still down 27% from where they were when the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service found that the greater sage grouse warranted Endangered
Species Act protections in 2010. The agency failed to deliver those needed safeguards
then, and doubled down on that failure this week.<span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:120%"><img src="http://wg.convio.net/images/content/pagebuilder/RedDesertGrouse13_copy.jpg" border="0" alt="Grouse pc WildEarth Guardians" hspace="10" vspace="8" width="250" height="188" align="right"></span></span> </p>
<p><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:120%">Threats from fires that destroy sagebrush habitats
(amplified by cheatgrass infestations caused by excessive livestock grazing)
are increasing. Rampant oil and gas drilling and associated roads and
powerlines fragment remaining grouse habitats. Yet the new federal sage grouse
protections have loopholes that will allow these destructive activities to
continue. The survival of the greater sage grouse, and the Sagebrush Sea
ecosystems that support an abundance of western wildlife, is far from assured.</span> </p>
<p><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:120%">Read more about the plans’ failings <a href="http://wg.convio.net/site/R?i=yIHltiXsWv5z-hsnpvq3kg" target="_blank">here</a>.</span> </p>
<p><span style="font-family:times new roman;font-size:120%"><a href="http://wg.convio.net/site/R?i=NKpOYkNK9P--c6xZheXiDw" target="_blank"><strong style="font-family:Times,"Times New Roman",serif">Tell President Obama</strong></a>
that sage grouse and the rest of our western wildlife deserve better than the
weak, scientifically unsound sage grouse plan his administration unveiled this
week.</span> </p>
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And watch for opportunities to support Guardians as
we press forward for stronger sage grouse protections using every available
means. To learn more, read <a href="http://wg.convio.net/site/R?i=bwqRcrSDWOC1FSlT1fVRqw" target="_blank">an
outstanding investigative journalism piece in <em>The Nation</em></a> on where the
federal sage grouse efforts went wrong.</span>
<p><span style="font-family:"times new roman";font-size:120%">For the birds,</span></p>
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