A pair of greater sage-grouse perform the mating strut to attract a mate at a lek near Fort Collins, Colorado. The ground-nesting bird is under thread as the Trump administration announced plans to open nine million acres to drilling and mining by stripping away protections for the sage grouse, long considered by oil companies as an obstacle to some of the richest energy deposits in the American West.

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