Conservation Efforts Successfully Head Off Listing of Sage Grouse Group as Threatened

摘要

Voluntary conservation efforts by landowners and others have successfully averted the listing of a population of greater sage grouse as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, Interior Secretary Sally Jewell announced April 21. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, an Interior Department agency, decided the bi-state population of the greater sage grouse, a species sub-segment found in eastern California and western Nevada, does not need to be listed for protections, in large part because of the estimated effectiveness of a regional conservation effort.