[Rio]

Save the sage grouse!

[Iron head mike]

“Save the sage grouse!”
They taste great on rice!

[logic101.net]

How big of a footprint would these wells have? And how large of a territory do sage grouse need? It seems to me this is a false argument and both can exist together.

They said that the Alaskan pipeline would destroy the caribou populations, instead they saw a long running boom that exists to this day. The warm oil going through the pipe keeps the snow cover from covering the vegetation too early so the critters have more food.

[blueunicorn6]

I’m pretty sure that when the trucks come in to drill and setup a well that the sage grouse can walk a few yards to get out of the way.

[fudimo]

It is not only the oil workers that are having problems over the Sage Grouse. The enviro’s are going after ranchers on private land in Wyoming.

You can read about it here.

http://www.rangemagazine.com/features/spring-14/range-sp14-sacrificial_lambs.pdf

[Wuli]

the sage grouse will recover and adapt once the initial construction of the bulk of the wells is over, just as wild life recovered in Alaska once the pipeline construction was over

what the environmental Nazis knowingly or ignorantly deny, is the the truth that MOST issues are issues that mitigation efforts can minimize and/or overcome and a very great many are not permanent - LIFE writ large has great success at adapting