In 2021, a report by the United States Geological Survey showed greater sage grouse populations are not improving, and numbers throughout their range have plummeted by 80 percent since 1965.

“All of the action alternatives must follow the best available science, provide for consistent management across the sage grouse range, protect all remaining habitat, avoid further fragmentation, ...

An unlikely coalition is fighting to protect the Gunnison sage-grouse. Theresa Childers, wildlife biologist at Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park, is poring over a red-and-blue map revealing ...

Not surprisingly, since the bird is completely dependent on this habitat, sage-grouse are also declining at alarming rates range-wide (i.e., 80% in the last 55 years). The Bureau of Land ...

With land prices soaring in Montana, groups that assist landowners with conservation easements to protect sage grouse habitat from being developed are running into a financial roadblock.

and J. A. Crawford. 2009. Survival of greater sage-grouse chicks and broods in the northern Great Basin. Journal of Wildlife Management 73:904–913. Guttery, M. R. 2011. Ecology and management of a ...

The loss of this already isolated "bi-state" sage grouse population would create a gap in the range of the species as a whole. It would ruin the integrity of unique Mono Basin ecosystems and rob the ...

Sage grouse are strong fliers with recorded speeds up to 78 km hour Leks – the display ground used by males - can be 100s of years old, birds return to the same breeding grounds year upon year.