National Greater Sage-Grouse Planning Strategy: Land Use Plan Amendments and Environmental Impact Statements, Scoping Summary Report May 2012
- ISBN-10
- 1503375188
- ISBN-13
- 9781503375185
- Pages
- 148
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2015-01-03
- Publisher
- CreateSpace
- Author
- U. S. Fish U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Description
This initiative to conserve, enhance, and restore greater sage-grouse habitat is the result of the March 2010, US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) 12-Month Finding for Petitions to List the Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) as Threatened or Endangered . In that finding, the USFWS concluded that greater sage-grouse was "warranted, but precluded" for listing as a threatened or endangered species. The USFWS reviewed the status and threats to the greater sage-grouse in relation to the five Listing Factors provided in Section 4(a) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA). Of the five Listing Factors reviewed, the USFWS determined that Factor A, "the present or threatened destruction, modification, or curtailment of the habitat or range of the Greater Sage-Grouse," and Factor D, "the inadequacy of existing regulatory mechanisms" posed "a significant threat to the Greater Sage-Grouse now and in the foreseeable future".
