Oil and gas leasing on nearly 1 million acres in the West has been deferred because of concerns about the greater sage grouse.
Bureau of Land Management offices in Wyoming and Utah on Oct. 25 announced the removal of parcels previously scheduled for the agency’s regular December oil and gas lease sale in light of a September federal court ruling in Western Watersheds Project v. Zinke that the BLM didn’t give the public enough time to comment on or protest the offerings.
The BLM Wyoming office yanked 76 parcels within 778,312 acres of designated sage grouse habitat, Brad Purdy, ...
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