will also slow down other activities such as grazing mining, etc etera, on lands that are managed by blmso there are conflicting opinions on whether or not this will help the bird, or will hamper the bird, because it will slow down the process of restoration. duane coombs: i think looking at a species, a single species, i think the very worst thing we can do for sage-grouse is list it under the endangered species act. west-wide, in the 11 western states that sage-grouse is in, there have been, in the last 4 to 5 years, there has been an unprecendented corporate conservation that has been happening across the board between federal agencies private landowners come a state agencies, and there is a huge momentum that's been built up, and my fear for our wildlife populations in general is that a listing of the sage-grouse as cooperative conservation a generation. -- sage-grouse as endangered will set back cooperative conservation a generation. we have learned how to communicate and get along and work cooperatively, and i would hate to see that lost. jake li: the species is a focus of unpreced