In Colorado, managers of BLM field offices are not performing environmental assessments on land where domestic sheep graze alongside bighorn sheep, and their mismanagement of grazing on rangelands is threatening sage grouse habitat, the lawsuit states.
Two environmental groups sued the Bureau of Land Management on Wednesday over what they say is a failure to protect public lands and wildlife from overgrazing in Colorado and 12 other Western states.
RENO Environmentalists have filed a notice of intent to sue the U.S government to block plans to build up to 11,000 miles of fuel breaks they contend would violate the Endangered Species Act in.
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One of the best road trips I’ve ever taken was a sightseeing tour of the Colorado River, where it straddles the California-Arizona state line. I stood at the edge of Imperial Dam near the Mexican border, which diverts water to the farm fields of the Imperial Valley, then drove north to Cibola National Wildlife Refuge, home to lots of birds. I walked along the river in Laughlin, Nev., where there’s a hotel called the Colorado Belle that looks like a boat, and in Needles, Calif., where Snoopy’s brother Spike lives.