Zinke orders review of sage grouse protection program

Published June 7, 2017 11:00pm ET



Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Wednesday night ordered a review of a conservation plan to protect the chicken-size sage grouse in the West, saying there is “a lot of mistrust and anger” in the states over the plan.

The Obama administration took the step of creating a strict conservation plan for the threatened bird species rather than take the much more drastic step of listing the bird as endangered.

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