BILLINGS, Mont. — President Joe Biden’s administration has proposed tighter restrictions on oil, solar and wind energy development across more than 6,500 square miles of federal land in the western U.S. to protect a declining bird species.

However, it is doubtful the changes would survive under President-elect Donald Trump.

Greater sage grouse — chicken-size birds known for an elaborate mating ritual— were once found across much of the West. Their numbers plummeted in recent decades because of energy exploration, wildfires, disease and other pressures.

A 2015 agreement shepherded by the Obama administration kept the birds off the endangered species list by imposing limits on where and when development could occur across 226,000 square miles of remaining grouse habitat spanning 11 states.

Now, in the closing weeks of the Biden administration, officials with the Interior Department want to make the protections even stronger. Their plan would eliminate loopholes that allowed development in areas considered crucial to the bird’s long-term survival. New solar and wind projects would be excluded, and oil and gas exploration could only occur from drilling sites outside the protected areas.

Trump has pushed to open more public lands to energy development in line with his mantra to “drill, baby, drill.” During his first administration, officials attempted to scale back the Obama-era sage grouse protections but were blocked in court.

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland said Friday’s science- based proposal would boost sage grouse while allowing development on government lands to continue.

Yet the agency’s attempt to find a middle ground fell flat with the oil and renewable energy industries, Republicans and even some environmentalists.

A spokesperson for American Clean Power, a renewables industry lobbying group, said the proposal “unnecessarily restricts the development of wind, solar, battery storage and transmission, undermining the ability to deploy much needed clean energy infrastructure.”

Most of the land at issue is in Nevada and California, according to government documents, with affected parcels in Wyoming, Oregon, Idaho, Colorado, Montana and the Dakotas.

In Wyoming, Gov. Mark Gordon said the proposal would add new layers of federal regulation and hinder practical solutions for the grouse.

Several major conservation organizations, including the Nature Conservancy, National Wildlife Federation and Natural Resources Defense Council, issued a joint statement in support of the changes.