“…The impacts of drilling activities for energy resourcesparticularly oil, natural gas, and coal-bed methane-on some sagebrush-associated species are better studied than impacts associated with mining have been. A number of studies indicate that activities associated with oil and gas development have significant effects on greater sage-grouse and can result in reduced fecundity (Lyon and Anderson, 2003;Holloran and others, 2010;Fedy and others, 2014), reduced recruitment (Holloran and others, 2010) and survival (Aldridge and Boyce, 2007;Holloran and others, 2010), direct avoidance across life stages (Carpenter and others, 2010;Holloran and others, 2010), declines in lek attendance and population trends (Doherty and others, 2010b;Harju and others, 2010;Blickley and others, 2012a;Hess and Beck, 2012;Taylor, R.L., and others, 2013;Gregory and Beck, 2014;Green and others, 2017), and localized extirpations of populations (Aldridge and Boyce, 2007;Walker and others, 2007;Duncan, 2010;Harju and others, 2010;Gregory and Beck, 2014;Green and others, 2017). Associated infrastructure (for example, roads, pipelines, storage facilities, and transmission lines) decreases the effectiveness of habitat for greater sage-grouse (Braun and others, 2002;Lyon and Anderson, 2003;Doherty and others, 2008;others, 2014a, 2014b;LeBeau and others, 2014;Kirol and others, 2015a).…”