"The Forest Service tomorrow [Friday] will unveil proposed changes to Obama-era greater sage grouse conservation plans covering more than 5 million acres of national forest and grasslands in five Western states.
A draft environmental impact statement and proposed amendments to land management plans covering sage grouse habitat in Forest Service units in Colorado, Idaho, Nevada, Wyoming and Utah will be published in tomorrow's Federal Register.
The draft documents will be open for a 90-day public comment period running through Jan. 3.
The proposed changes are not expected to be as sweeping as those put forth last spring by the Bureau of Land Management in six separate draft EISs and proposed resource management plan amendments covering tens of millions of acres of sage grouse habitat on federal lands."
