The Interior Department released its draft plan to roll back the 2015 Obama-era plan to protect the chicken-sized sage-grouse on Wednesday, with an eye toward oil and natural gas development on once off-limit lands.
Trump administration officials say the Bureau of Land Management’s proposed revisions to the 2015 sage-grouse plan would increase flexibility in the management of lands in the West where the birds roost and breed.
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