CounterPunch

Conservation Groups Sue Bureau of Land Management to Stop Destruction of Critical Sage Grouse Habitat

Greater sage grouse occupied more than 460,000 square miles across 13 Western states, including Montana, and three Canadian ...
The Aspen Times

The greater sage-grouse is threatened in the West

Despite ongoing conservation efforts, the Western bird continues to face sharp population declines at the hands of climate change-induced impacts to its habitat which include wildfires and drought ...
Center for Biological Diversity

SAVING THE GREATER SAGE GROUSE

Every spring, male sage grouse gather to strut their stuff in riveting mating rituals. Punctuating their displays with swishing, hooting and popping sounds, males bob their heads, fan their tail ...
WyoFile on MSN

Drilling lease slated 2 miles from world’s largest sage grouse lek, center punching planet’s longest mule deer migration

Parcel 0712 is part of a complex of oil and gas leases in ecologically valuable sagebrush-steppe that the Bureau of Land ...
The Denver Post

Opinion: Sage grouse need protected areas but they aren’t in the BLM plan

The future of the greater sage grouse, an iconic species of the American West, is in doubt. Over decades its numbers have dwindled to a mere 150,000 individuals and continue to decline as the birds’ ...
Courthouse News Service

Conservationists slam federal proposal for greater sage-grouse protection

A greater sage grouse. (Bob Wick/Bureau of Land Management via Courthouse News) (CN) — Criticism of federal protections for the greater sage-grouse spilled over Thursday after the Biden administration ...
Great Falls Tribune

Sage grouse management plan draws controversy over western high plains

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has released a draft management plan for the Greater Sage Grouse, which could tighten conservation and management practices on more than 11 million acres of ...
OPB

BLM finalizes sage grouse protection proposal, seeks public input

The Biden administration released its final proposal for protecting greater sage grouse on Friday. In an advance press release, the U.S. Department of the Interior said the proposals will balance sage ...
Center for Biological Diversity

Trump Nukes Protections for Greater Sage Grouse

RENO, Nev.— The Trump administration released draft plans today stripping away protections for the greater sage grouse on about 50 million acres of public lands across the West. The Obama- and ...
The Salt Lake Tribune

Voices: The sage grouse is running out of time. We can’t afford more rounds of ineffectual planning.

The fate of the greater sage grouse, a remarkable bird that once flourished across the American West, now largely rests with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Right now, BLM is in the final stages ...
WESA

Greater Sage Grouse Won't Get Federal Protection

This morning, some big news about a little bird. Later today, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will announce the greater sage grouse, a charismatic Western bird, does not need protection under the ...