https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ov9_72xLeF0 The Trump administration has released plans to lift or alter habitat protections for the greater sage grouse across millions of acres of Western land. The long-anticipated proposals , released Thursday by the Bureau of Land Management, would revise a sweeping conservation effort made under the Obama administration, allowing for more development in the chicken-sized bird's vast habitat. The Interior Department says the changes are being made to enhance cooperation with Western states, some of which were critical of the Obama-era plans, and that protections for the bird will remain intact. "I completely believe that these plans are leaning forward on the conservation of sage grouse," Interior Deputy Secretary David Bernhardt told The Associated Press. "Do they do it in exactly the same way, no? We made some change in the plans and got rid of some things that are simply not necessary." Conservation and wildlife groups argue that the changes
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