Based on the furor that resulted when the news came down, there was little doubt why the Obama administration waited until after the midterm election to grant endangered species protection to the ...

Grouse finding aids habitat. By Dave Curtin Denver Post Higher Education Writer Nov. 27, 2000 - A Western State College biologist has discovered a distinct species of sage grouse whose disappearing ...

Dan Ashe, director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, took fire from both sides over his agency’s decision last week to list the Gunnison sage-grouse as “threatened” under the Endangered ...

Conservation efforts for the Gunnison sage grouse ramped up after the American Ornithologists’ Union recognized the bird as a distinct species from the greater grouse in 2000.

Recent headlines regarding the draft Gunnison sage-grouse recovery plan have focused on the projected cost of the plan: $561 million over 10 years. This inflammatory figure neglects the substance of ...

Gunnison sage-grouse once may have numbered in the tens of thousands. “There’s an article from 1894 in the Salt Lake City newspaper by a guy who shot 860 sage-grouse in a single afternoon,” says ...

Male sage grouses are seen fighting for the attention of females southwest of Rawlins, Wyo., on May 9, 2008. (Jerret Raffety/The Rawlins Daily Times via AP, File) (CN) — Environmental groups sued the ...

Dear HCN, This is a follow-up to a couple of articles on sage grouse (HCN, 2/4/02: Last dance for the sage grouse?). Sagebrush is an important species and vital to rangeland ecosystems, but there ...

Federal wildlife officials on Wednesday embarked on an ecological rescue of the Gunnison sage grouse, a flamboyant bird forced to the brink of extinction by development in the West. U.S. Fish and ...

Gunnison_sage_grouse-Grasses. Wetland grasses grow between the stones of a Zeedyk rock dam built in Colorado’s Gunnison basin to restore the wet meadow habitat vital to the development of young ...

SALT LAKE CITY — The Gunnison sage-grouse would probably enjoy all the attention. The bird is something of a show off. It lives in and around the iconic sagebrush of the Western United States ...