text: ICYMI: Today, during a House Natural Resources Committee hearing, I had the opportunity to discuss with Megan Maxwell, an independent biologist from Broomfield, Colorado, the numerous problems with the proposed ESA listing of the sage grouse.  I asked her about the BLM?Ûªs blanket approach to preserve the grouse that fails to take into account regional factors and threatens multiple use development critical to local economies for eleven different Western States, including Colorado, on over 40 million acres of land.    She told me, ?ÛÏ?ÛÏThe conservation measures and the one-size-fits-all approach they?Ûªre taking is what?Ûªs going to really be damaging,?Û?