{"id":370,"date":"2015-04-12T19:43:06","date_gmt":"2015-04-12T19:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucefinley.com\/environment\/feds-states-spar-in-push-to-create-165-million-acre-safe-zone-for-grouse\/"},"modified":"2015-04-12T19:43:06","modified_gmt":"2015-04-12T19:43:06","slug":"feds-states-spar-in-push-to-create-165-million-acre-safe-zone-for-grouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucefinley.com\/environment\/feds-states-spar-in-push-to-create-165-million-acre-safe-zone-for-grouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Feds, states spar in push to create 165 million acre safe zone for grouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CRAIG \u2014 Blooping sounds, chest-puffing and ruffling of feathers in a sunrise-mating dance mark the latest survival struggles of greater sage grouse, iconic birds at the center of a storm that may put unprecedented limits on people across a Texas-sized area of the West.<\/p>\n<p>The question \u2014 as a decades-long standoff intensifies ahead of a Sept. 30 deadline \u2014 is who will impose those limits: the federal government or Colorado and 10 other states that favor flexibility.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, this will be the largest land-conservation feat ever attempted.<\/p>\n<p>Once, greater sage grouse numbered in the millions, along with 300-plus other species, on the sagebrush steppe that stretches from Colorado to California.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/environment\/ci_27896532\/feds-states-spar-push-create-165m-acre-safe\" target=\"_blank\">Read More <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CRAIG \u2014 Blooping sounds, chest-puffing and ruffling of feathers in a sunrise-mating dance mark the latest survival struggles of greater sage grouse, iconic birds at the center of a storm that may put unprecedented limits on people across a Texas-sized area of the West. The question \u2014 as a decades-long standoff intensifies ahead of a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/370\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucefinley.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}