The case takes on several hundred grazing permits, oil and gas leases, and other management decisions that BLM also issued near the end of the Bush Administration, affecting sage-grouse in the Great Basin region of Idaho and Nevada. The Great Basin still holds one of the last remaining "core" sage grouse populations, but they are suffering from habitat losses and degradation -- which BLM's decisions only worsen. Again, BLM refused to study the harms that these decisions together will have upon the public lands and sensitive species, including sage-grouse.

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