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US judge blocks Nevada grazing; sage grouse totals dwindling

by Scott Sonner
| April 1, 2021 12:03 AM

RENO, Nev. (AP) — A federal judge has blocked a Nevada project that would expand livestock grazing across 400 squares miles (1,036 square kilometers) of some of the highest priority sage-grouse habitat in the West and accused the government of deliberately misleading the public by underestimating damage the cattle could do to the land.

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