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Mike Lee Applauds Herbert's Lawsuit Against Federal Sage Grouse Management

nrmsc.usgs.gov

  Senator Mike Lee voiced his support Thursday after Utah Governor Gary Herbert announced he is suing Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to stop the Bureau of Land Management and forest service implementation of a sage grouse management plan.

Lee commended Herbert’s decision to fight the Obama administration’s efforts to control federal land in Utah from Washington, DC.

“The government’s gotten so much more aggressive in the way it manages its land that it’s starting to really effect people. You know, this is not big corporations who are wealthy Americans that this is hurting. These are poor, middle-class Americans just trying to get by, whose lives and livelihoods are being severely restricted by federal land managers who have no connection to them and their communities.”

The junior senator from Utah added, “western states have a well-established and exemplarily record of implementing their own sage grouse conservation plans and there is zero need for other federal agencies to get involved.”