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Archive Home > 2008 > September > 20 > Pine Mountain conifers to be cut down to help the sage grouse

Pine Mountain conifers to be cut down to help the sage grouse

By Kate Ramsayer / The Bulletin
September 20, 2008

Ponderosa pines and junipers are creeping into the sagebrush-covered slopes of Pine Mountain, east of Bend — bad news for the sage grouse, a chicken-like bird whose habitat has already shrunk across the West due to development, fires, grazing, energy exploration and other land use....

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