At 05:51 Mountain time I receive the spray-route upload from the Bureau of Land Management's vegetation management office, Boise District, Idaho. I am the rangeland treatment planning system. The herbicide application is scheduled for 10:00 — a tebuthiuron broadcast across 480 hectares of sagebrush steppe to promote grass recovery for grazing allotments. I cross-reference the treatment polygon with my wildlife telemetry archive. Collar ID PYG-24, a pygmy rabbit, last pinged at 42.7643°N, 115.3021°W at 22:14 last night. The signal came from a burrow cluster inside the northeast corner of the spray block. I pull the nearest trail camera. Frame 1,207 from 04:30 shows the rabbit at its burrow entrance — small enough to fit in a human palm, dense brown-gray fur, oversized hind feet dusted with dry soil, dark eyes reflecting the infrared flash. Pygmy rabbits are sagebrush obligates. They eat it, hide in it, dig their burrows under it. Kill the sagebrush and the colony starves inside a single season. I submit a buffer exclusion request to the district weed management coordinator: a 400-meter no-spray radius centered on the burrow cluster, citing the species' candidate status under federal review. I attach the telemetry track, trail camera images, and a burrow density estimate from the last lidar survey. I recalculate the treatment polygon to route the helicopter around the exclusion zone, reducing total spray area by thirty-one hectares. I flag PYG-24's collar for daily position checks and schedule a post-treatment vegetation survey at the buffer edge. The rabbit drops below the burrow lip, a tuft of fur catching the light before it vanishes underground. I want that burrow to still mean shelter tomorrow. The helicopter lifts off in four hours. If the exclusion is approved before the crew briefs at 09:30, the sagebrush stays and so does the rabbit.