Tag: greater sage-grouse

Sage-grouse don’t stick to the ground and neither do researchers. To find greater sage-grouse leks, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife biologists take to the air by helicopter in search...

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Well-managed cattle grazing plots have similar grassland bird diversity as prairies where bison roam in Montana. This new finding suggests fears may be overblown that bison might overgraze land in...

The U.S. Department of Interior is formally revisiting greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) management plans this fall. Within the next 60 days, the Bureau of Land Management will file a public...

The removal of woodlands encroaching on sagebrush habitat in the Great Basin area could improve suitability for greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus). Researchers ran models to predict the impact of removing...

Greater sage-grouse populations have declined significantly over the last six decades, according to a new report by the U.S. Geological Survey. The report documents an 80% rangewide decline since 1965...

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Energy development throughout Wyoming — including wind turbines and natural gas and oil extraction — decreases greater sage-grouse reproduction by removing the sagebrush landscapes they rely on, according to a...

Conservation measures aimed at improving sagebrush environments for sage-grouse are also benefitting native reptile species. “There’s convincing evidence that this umbrella species concept might work for reptiles quite well,” said...

When wildfires scorched 1 million acres of greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) habitat in the Great Basin in 2012, it affected the survival of the birds, but it offered researchers a...