{"id":323820,"date":"2010-02-15T17:42:36","date_gmt":"2010-02-15T22:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef012877a56c44970c"},"modified":"2010-02-15T17:46:43","modified_gmt":"2010-02-15T22:46:43","slug":"new-deal-between-u-s-state-of-idaho-gives-landowners-an-incentive-to-protect-sage-grouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/323820","title":{"rendered":"New deal between U.S., state of Idaho gives landowners an incentive to protect sage grouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8a2b7a6970b-pi\" style=\"float: right;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Sage grouse\" border=\"0\" class=\"asset asset-image at-xid-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8a2b7a6970b \" src=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/.a\/6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8a2b7a6970b-800wi\" style=\"margin: 5px;\" title=\"Sage grouse\"><\/img><\/a> BOISE, Idaho \u2014 Federal wildlife officials are hailing an agreement between the U.S. and the state of Idaho as the first of its kind for a bird being considered for listing under the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Endangered_species_act\">Endangered Species Act<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The accord signed Friday gives landowners an incentive to protect the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sage_Grouse\">sage grouse<\/a>. Those who voluntarily restore the chicken-sized bird&#8217;s habitat would be protected from future regulations if the bird is granted endangered status.<\/p>\n<p>For now, the incentives apply only to landowners in four southwest Idaho counties, but similar programs are being considered in other Western states.<\/p>\n<p>Once prevalent in the sagebrush steppes from the Dakotas to California, sage grouse populations and habitat are declining from threats posed by energy development, urban sprawl and wildfires.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Associated Press<\/p>\n<p><strong>Animal news on the go: Follow Unleashed on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/launleashed\">Facebook<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/LATunleashed\">Twitter<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo: A male sage grouse performs a dance designed to win him a female. Credit: Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOISE, Idaho \u2014 Federal wildlife officials are hailing an agreement between the U.S. and the state of Idaho as the first of its kind for a bird being considered for listing under the Endangered Species Act. The accord signed Friday gives landowners an incentive to protect the sage grouse. Those who voluntarily restore the chicken-sized [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-323820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323820\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}