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These claims are also false.

The Trump-Zinke plan to roll back sage-grouse protections will only hurt the West.

Let's talk about the real facts that are grounded in science, and put aside the 'alternative facts' grounded in nothing more than the hope that nobody is really paying attention.

The science also shows that grazing will not stop fires under very hot and dry conditions, just as those being experienced more and more in our West as a result of climate change.

Just to follow up, changing the strategy at this point on the conservation plans, would that threaten the bird?

Going back to that point that most of the sage-grouse habitats in Montana are on private land, an ESA listing would have big implications.

A tremendous amount of outreach and state involvement in the various plans, Director Tubbs, ultimately led to the 2015 decision not to list the sage-grouse.

People know that the corresponding effort to conserve sage-grouse and sagebrush habitat without an ESA listing was highly inclusive and transparent.

Our fish--and sportfishing businesses--deserve far better than H.R. 3144.

Perpetuating this failed status quo is the true definition of insanity.