Sage Grouse

The Bureau of Land Management is once again reviewing land use as it’s related to the sage grouse. This is the latest move to protect the bird as its numbers continue to dwindle, pushing to closer to an endangered species listing.

The Gunnison Basin is experiencing drought much like the rest of the West. In this part of sagebrush country, work is underway to restore critical wetland habitat for the federally threatened Gunnison sage grouse and other species.

The Bureau of Land Management fell short in analyzing how oil and gas drilling in parts of Montana and Wyoming would impact the greater sage grouse, a species that's suffered an 80% population decline across its range since 1965.

A federal judge in Idaho has ruled against the Trump administration’s decision to limit public input when leasing the West’s public lands to oil and gas...

The Bureau of Land Management is now taking public comments on newly-published information about its sage grouse management plans. The agency posted...

A federal agency says rebuilding a sage-grouse population found only in Colorado and Utah could take more than 50 years and cost nearly $561 million.The…

The U.S. District Court for the District of Idaho will maintain a 2015 policy aimed at protecting millions of acres in the western United States along...

As the Bureau of Land Management pilots a new livestock grazing initiative on public lands in six Western states, a conservation group is suing to get...

The state's sage grouse stakeholder team has recommended that Gov. Mark Gordon not only keep sage grouse numbers from going down, but increase them.

Conservation groups are asking a federal judge to block the Trump administration from easing restrictions on energy companies that were meant to protect a…