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Options to Save Sage Grouse Differ Greatly

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It would make 8.3 million acres priority habitat and 2.9 million acres general habitat. Mining would be mostly closed in priority habitat but open in general habitat. Oil and gas development would be closed in priority habitat and restricted to no surface disturbance in general habitat. It would make all 11.2 million acres priority habitat.
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The Idaho Statesman Rocky Barker column

By Hunting, Issues
Jan. 20--Salmon and steelhead are further away from extinction than they were a decade ago. Those include the surface passage devices dam managers have added to several of the eight dams between Idaho and the Pacific. That means better fishing this spring but numbers that are still nowhere near what Idaho could expect from a recovered healthy population of 70,000 to more than 100,000 wild fish.
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Wolf-killing plan complicates balancing act

By Issues, Wolves
Hunter elk harvests have dropped in recent years, but wolf predation remains high. Hunting wolves is a method that Akenson and other conservationists can accept. He is Otter's main legislative supporter for the Wolf Control Board, which he said needs to focus on reducing the wolf population that has cost sheep businesses such as his. With a total population of about 700 wolves, that's $2,800 for every wolf in Idaho, living or dead. Rep.
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