After gaining significant protections for bighorn sheep on the Payette National Forest due to Advocates for the West's prior litigation...
Ruby settlement establishes new conservation fund
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08/06/2010 Advocates for the West recently helped broker an innovative settlement between WWP and El Paso Pipeline Corp. to establish a $15 million Sagebrush Habitat Conservation Fund. The Fund will work to retire grazing permits on a willing seller basis to mitigate for impacts of the 650-mile Ruby natural gas pipeline on sage-grouse and other sagebrush species.
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