Really?
$2.00 acre? That’s a cheap hunting lease. I’m developing a taste for sage grouse hunting.
If memory serves me correctly, I read an article either here at FR or from another news-site that said the Sage Grouse and habitat were doing very well and that some of the birds were not in the areas considered for sale/drilling.
Will try to find it for you.
I recognize the WP writer’s name and she is a leftist environmental wacko writer.
...Conservationists call the area the “golden triangle” because of its importance for the species, which has suffered a sharp decline in the past 15 years as oil and gas extraction expanded rapidly in the grouse’s historic range.
Is the bird endangered at all or was it simply a convenient way for Obama to remove these lands from drilling? Was the bird population sufficient or perhaps in an overpopulation state? If so, a drop in numbers may not matter or may be desirable.
I am assuming that these questions (among others) were not asked by the writer(s) because that would be too much like work.
[[the result of a recent Trump administration directive to roll back Obama-era protections for the iconic bird.]]
Oh the horror- democrats act as though trump is going to carpet bomb the area now out of sheer spite=- The birds will be fine Democrats- breath in, breathe out, breathe in, breathe out-
Fillet and cut 2 sage grouse into 1-inch cubes. Soak in milk for several hours or overnight. Drain and pat dry. Coat with seasoned flour (to flour add generous amounts of paprika, garlic salt, onion salt, and pepper--flour should have a red tint). Brown in hot oil. Place in Dutch oven.
Add sauce ingredients. Cover and cook using 8-10 briquets underneath the Dutch oven and 15-18 briquets on the lid, or in a 350°F oven. For adult birds, which may be tough, plan on cooking about 2 1/2 hours. You’ll need to freshen your charcoal for the last hour. Check periodically and add more wine or water if needed. Serve with rice or noodles and a green salad. Serves four. This is a good recipe for old as well as young birds.
There will be more birds in 5 years than there are now.
When you can side drill, you don’t need a lot of wells in one area, anyhow.
Truth? We need no stinking truth! Never let the truth get in the way of the agenda.
Orange man bad ?
Any acreage you can lease for $2 an acre is goat pasture. No one will ever disturb the grouse.
More winning.
Now they can drill and on break shoot grouse. A dream job.
That’s gonna be for exploration rights, not drilling rights. I’ve leased some of my land for that although I got more like $20 an acre instead of $2. They have five years to do their testing which includes blowing test wells and other seismic testing. If they drill and strike oil then you get more.
They’re not going to do anything to hurt the danged sage grouse. Drilling for oil is almost zero impact nowadays and even if they did do anything they’re required to fix it back 10X better than it was to begin with. If anything there’ll be a lot more sage grouse there in 10 years than there are now.
It’s amazing how little city people know about the environment and energy exploration. That’s why it’s so easy for a communist like Obama to shut off millions of acres of western public lands to drilling by creating hysteria amongst city people that have no effing idea why they’re hysterical. It’s like asking a waitress to pontificate on your brain surgery.
Grouse are wild chicken.
Like all non-domesticated critters, they are virtually all dark meat.
So, DRILL DRILL DRILL.
Sensible decisions - they want to keep habitats “pristine” and never seem to notice how many species thrive in the middle of all sorts of environments as long as it isn’t totally paved over....and rats can thrive in places more dense with human construction....
Almost 60 thousand acres...Unless they’re drilling holes every hundred feet, seems as those these birds could just move over a few feet without too much disruption...
Almost 60 thousand acres...Unless they’re drilling holes every hundred feet, seems as those these birds could just move over a few feet without too much disruption...