After finding only two active leks in 2024, state biologists counted zero male birds during their annual population survey ...

On Monday, House Republicans included a provision in their fiscal 2026 spending bill for the Interior Department and EPA that ...

Unless grouse migrate into North Dakota from neighboring states, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s home state will be the ...

The sea and the greater sage grouse weave around peaks and cities, across 165 million arid acres and 11 states from Northern California to North Dakota. Yet both the bird population and its ...

The sage grouse is an “indicator species.” Protect it, and you protect some 350 other plant and animal species, all denizens of sagebrush terrain — among them are elk, pronghorn, mule deer ...

Sage grouse are compared to the Northern Spotted Owl because their 1990 listing as threatened in the forests of Washington, Oregon, and California impacted logging the way a grouse listing could ...

The sage grouse’s future was starting to look bright, but then along came Trump. December 14, 2018. By Kathy Love. Kathy Love is the author of “Sage Grouse, Icon of the West,” illustrated ...

These plans were momentous for the sage grouse, as they limited disturbance within the most important sage grouse habitats. The 2015 plans, while not perfect, at least gave the sage grouse a ...

A male greater sage grouse is pictured in an April 21, 2012, file photo. The Trump administration plans to lessen protections on the bosomy bird to allow for more drilling, mining and grazing on ...

The future of the greater sage grouse, an iconic species of the American West, is in doubt. For decades its numbers have dwindled to a mere 150,000 individuals.

For sage grouse, lithium mining at Oregon-Nevada border would be ‘a death knell,’ conservationists say. Published: May. 14, 2022, 10:43 a.m.

Voluntary conservation measures have been enough to keep a population of greater sage grouse in California and Nevada off the endangered species list, federal officials said Tuesday—a decision ...