Letter to the Editor: Delayed ruling on sage grouse doesn’t help anyone

Dear Editor:
Sportsmen’s groups are deeply concerned that a motion to strike a rider added to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), which will delay the September 2015 listing decision for sage-grouse by 10 years, has been defeated. The rider, introduced by Utah Representative Rob Bishop, is non-germane to the rest of the Act, and sportsmen believe the proposed legislation will actually hurt sage-grouse conservation efforts by undermining the current planning process—a collaboration of historic…