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Montana Grazing Lawsuit
Save the Sage Grouse! Wait, what the hell is a Sage Grouse anyway? From the looks of it, this thing is one funky looking bird.
Tens of thousands of open acres with lush juicy vegetation are available throughout the Montana Beaverhead Deerlodge National Forest… perfect area for livestock to feed naturally right? Who needs grass fed cows when you can pack twice as many cows into 6×3′ cages and pump them with growth hormone until the cows come home (pun intended)? I digress.
There are two viewpoints in this lawsuit. Environmental groups who believe the Sage Grouse should be able to roam freely and not have their habitat ruined by happy hungry cows… and then of course the ranchers who want to provide their cows a nice meal.
The U.S. Forest Service provided an assessment stating Sage Grouse habitat was not at steak (pun), but the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the Forest Service to prepare a new environmental assessment to prove both cattle and Sage Grouse can co-exist.
Maybe the cattle ranchers should demand a separate study from the environmentalists proving the existence of Sage Grouse in the area does not put their cows at risk of extinction!
Source: Billings Gazette