Wyofile: sage grouse is canary in very large coal mine

Dustin Bleizeffer:

It is too late for the sage grouse in the Powder River Basin, said Tom Christiansen, sage grouse program coordinator for the Wyoming Game and Fish Department.

No shit:

Jeremy Fugleberg from the Casper Trib:

Sage grouse in northeastern Wyoming are on the verge of extinction, hammered hard by a one-two punch from energy development and outbreaks of West Nile virus, according to a recently released U.S. Bureau of Land Management study.

h/t Lynn:

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