{"id":71484,"date":"2015-05-01T14:30:08","date_gmt":"2015-05-01T19:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=71484"},"modified":"2015-05-01T14:30:45","modified_gmt":"2015-05-01T19:30:45","slug":"no-sage-grouse-hunting-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=71484","title":{"rendered":"No sage grouse hunting this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/grouse2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-71486\" alt=\"grouse2\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/grouse2.jpg\" width=\"111\" height=\"83\" \/><\/a>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2013 North Dakota will not have a sage grouse hunting season for the eighth straight year due to low numbers of the birds.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Game and Fish Department says a spring survey found a record-low 30 males on six strutting grounds.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sage grouse in the U.S. once numbered in the millions, but current estimates put the population between 200,000 and 500,000. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has set a Sept. 30 deadline to decide whether to propose listing the bird as endangered.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Officials in western states fear that could limit ranching and energy production. Eleven states have launched voluntary effects to conserve sage grouse habitat in hopes of avoiding a federal listing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) \u2013 North Dakota will not have a sage grouse hunting season for the eighth straight year due to low numbers of the birds. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Game and Fish Department says a spring survey found a record-low 30 males on six strutting grounds. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Sage grouse [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":71487,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-71484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71484"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71490,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71484\/revisions\/71490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/71487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}