'They won't survive': Trump gas wells would block pronghorn migration route

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Conservation groups are fighting the creation of 3,500 gas wells in Wyoming that threaten a 170-mile path

The Path of the Pronghorn is a 170-mile migration route that the antelope-like creatures have traveled annually for 6,000 years. It is one of North America’s last remaining long-distance terrestrial migration corridors.

And it is at risk. This week conservation groups filed a legal petition challenging the Trump administration’s plan to allow 3,500 new gas wells in south-western Wyoming that would block the route.

The petition alleges that the government approved the wells without properly analyzing the potential harm to pronghorn and the greater sage grouse, a chicken-like bird that requires vast, intact landscapes for habitat, from well pads, roads, pipelines and other infrastructure. The vast frack-field expansion would prevent access to winter ranges that pronghorn need to survive.

Migration memory is passed from parent to offspring among ungulates, said the conservationist Linda Baker, the director of the Upper Green River Alliance. “If we cut off their migration route, that memory is lost and not likely to be regained in the life of a pronghorn. This area is a high cold desert, so they survive on sagebrush. If they can’t get to traditional winter ranges on these pathways, they won’t survive.”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/24/pronghorn-migration-gas-wells

[2naSalit]

1. This has been a long fight too.

We have to get rid of these guys and stop them from completing their plan of destruction.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

2. That orange pile of catshit has no care for anything beyond himself.

Irreparable harm means nothing to him or his cronies. All he cares about is sucking up to those who will flatter him or give him money. He's a useful idiot to a lot more people than Putin.