Trump Critical Minerals Push Targets Sage-Grouse Habitat — SkimNews
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- The Trump Administration's Critical Minerals Agenda is targeting a stretch of the American West that reporters describe as a "Forgotten Wildlife Corridor," according to a joint investigation by Inside Climate News and Columbia Journalism Investigations.
- Katie Fite stood in one of the country's last sage-grouse strongholds at McDermitt Caldera, Oregon, where wooden stakes have been driven into the ground amid the push for mineral extraction.
Why it matters: The Trump Administration's critical minerals push is now physically staking ground inside one of the last sage-grouse strongholds at McDermitt Caldera, Oregon. Sage-grouse habitat has long been a flashpoint in Western public-lands battles between extraction and conservation, putting a direct test on how the administration weighs energy supply against endangered-species protections.
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