New study looks at BLM efforts to manage sage-grouse habitat

CASPER — Commercial livestock grazing across the West is a growing threat to the greater sage-grouse, according to an analysis by conservation groups Western Watersheds Project and Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility.

The groups analyzed documents from the Bureau of Land Management and concluded the agency’s latest proposal for managing sage-grouse habitat fails to remedy damage caused by livestock grazing across millions of acres of sage-grouse habitat.

Sage-grouse, a ground-dwelling bird and iconic western species, is considered a bellwether for the health of the greater sagebr...