There’s still sage grouse hunting in Idaho. Don’t believe for a minute that these birds are “endangered”
The communists, eco-facists, and fed are using this fake sage grouse issue to grab private property and stop domestic energy production ...
Kind of like the attempt a few years back to list the Prairie Dog as an endangered species.
With Bald Eagles, for example, if there are hundreds or thousands living in your state or anywhere else, but you have one nesting eagle in a tree on your property, they are free to define your property as a site where the eagles are endangered and all ESA rules apply.
Same holds true for range land ... they just need to define an area, find a species for which the counts are as plausibly low as they can claim and declare ESA rules. Simple. And the public is snookered once again
As they have been snookered for the past 40 years this has been going on, since the Great Hero of the Right Nixon founded the EPA and signed the ESA into existence.