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USDA pledges $750M by 2018 for sage-grouse conservation

By Kellan Howell - The Washington Times

$FILE - In this May 10, 2013 file photo, Lynn Cameron of Mount Crawford, Va., looks out at the view while hiking the Mines Run Trail, on Shenandoah Mountain, Va., which is in the George Washington National Forest in Rockingham County, Va. Over the objection of environmental groups and Virginia&#8217;s governor, a federal management plan released Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2014, will allow a form of natural gas drilling known as fracking to occur in parts of the George Washington National Forest, the largest national forest on the East Coast. (AP Photo/Daily News-Record, Nikki Fox, File)$