Will the Sage-Grouse Become the Latest Club Used to Beat on Miners?

Mineweb writer Dorothy Kosich has posted an article detailing what may be the latest significant threat to the mining industry in some time.

Her article examines how, according to the American Exploration and Mining Association (formerly the Northwest Mining Association), the BLM and USFS are using the proposed listing of the Greater Sage-grouse as a threatened or endangered species to remove over 17 million acres in the western U.S. from coverage by U.S. Mining Law.

Reader's wishing to familiarize themselves with the details of this latest issue are encouraged to read the Mineweb article at the link here, as well as an AEMA summary in downloadable PDF format here.