Pity the Sage Grouse, Victim of Politics

Sage Grouse (Wiki Commons)

Sally Jewell, shiny new Secretary of the Interior, comes to northwest Colorado to discuss the threats to sage grouse — then shuts local news reporters out of a "public meeting," is rebuked by the Colorado Press Association.



She has not been in office long, but evidently she has picked up this "most transparent administration's ever" operating style.



Later she issues a typical bureaucrat's non-apology in which it's no one's fault.



Forgotten in all of this: what, if anything, can be done to help the sage grouse.