Tag: sage grouse

October 26, 2017

BLM to hold public hearings on sage-grouse in four

The Bureau of Land Management has announced it will hold public hearings this November in four states — Idaho, California, Oregon, and Colorado — as part of its gathering of...

September 19, 2017

Read the September issue of the Wildlife Society Bulletin

Volume 41.3 is now published online. The issue features five Tools and Technology articles and 18 Original Articles. Featured in this issue are: What Should Go in a Wildlife Professional’s...

September 7, 2017

Sage grouse Conservation Credit System used in Nevada 

The State of Nevada has released the first credits for sale under its Conservation Credit System (CCS) to mitigate impacts to sage-grouse habitat. The CCS was developed through a collaborative...

August 21, 2017

Fishlake National Forest and Boulder Mountain Habitat Improvement Projects

The Beaver, Fillmore, Fremont River, and Richfield Ranger Districts of the Fishlake National Forest worked together to design a landscape scale project to remove encroaching pinyon and juniper trees in...

August 14, 2017

Wyoming Chapter comments to improve sage-grouse regulations

New policies and regulations regarding greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) management were proposed in the state of Wyoming earlier this year in response to new legislation, specifically relating to the practice...

August 9, 2017

Review team submits sage-grouse management recommendations

The U.S. Department of the Interior released a report, developed by the Sage-Grouse Review Team, which provides an assessment of the 2015 federal Greater Sage-Grouse plans and makes recommendations for...

June 13, 2017

Zinke orders review of sage grouse conservation plans

On Jun. 8, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke signed Secretarial Order 3353 (Greater Sage-Grouse Conservation and Cooperation with Western States). With the Order, the U.S. Department of the Interior will establish...

February 10, 2017

Efforts to alter ESA continue in 115th Congress

Listing Reform Act On Jan. 27, Rep. Pete Olson (R-TX) introduced H.R. 717 with the intent to alter the process of listing a species as threatened or endangered under the...

January 30, 2017

Sage grouse benefit from connected habitat

The current network of key sage grouse habitats has many important characteristics for maintaining populations, but if habitats are disconnected it could lead to regional loss of the species, according...

December 1, 2016

Sage-grouse rider removed from defense bill

Congressional committee members have removed an amendment from the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2017 that would have impacted conservation and management of the greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus)....