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Reading the Tea Leaves: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Lists, Designates Critical Habitat for Gunnison Sage-Grouse – Is the Greater Sage Grouse Next?

By Nossaman LLP on November 14, 2014 Posted in Critical Habitat, Listing

On November 12, 2014, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (Service) listed as “threatened” and designated over 1.4 million acres of critical habitat for Gunnison sage-grouse (Centrocercus minimus), the smaller cousin of the greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus). The Gunnison sage-grouse’s (Gunnison) current range is limited to southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah. The regulations came as a blow … Continue Reading