Fish & Wildlife Service (USFWS) to nominate the
sage grouse for an endangered species listing because populations of the chicken-sized bird have declined so dramatically over the last few decades.
The Forest Service continues to promote our multiple use mission while ensuring conservation of greater
sage grouse habitat, Secretary Perdue said.
Pearlstein also noted the presence of wildlife dependent on native plants, including pronghorn, mule deer, and smaller mammals and many types of birds, including
sage grouse. He said
sage grouse are rarely seen in the allotments, but there are four occupied
sage grouse leks, or breeding grounds, within about 2 miles (3 kilometers) of the allotments.
Brian Rutledge with the Audubon Society said the revisions will make it harder to stop the long-term decline of
sage grouse by giving oil and gas companies access to crucial grouse habitat.
In the US, Coates and Delehanty (2010) also linked nest loss of
sage grouse to habitat configuration (mainly shrub cover) and Bui et al.
"I completely believe that these plans are leaning forward on the conservation of
sage grouse," Bernhardt told The Associated Press.
(FLPMA) land plans affecting
sage grouse, for they reveal an
David Hart's "
Sage Grouse Salvation" describes a recent hunt for a bird that truly must be considered a trophy by shotgunners...and one which, thankfully, is now beginning to see the benefits of a cooperative recovery effort by several conservation groups and government agencies.
In 2016, fellow
sage grouse loony Bob Jeffrey and I hunted an area he knew in the high sage valleys of southwestern Montana.
With energy, monument and
sage grouse conservation decisions looming in the coming weeks and months, the time is now for the sporting community to judge the secretary.
However, the
sage grouse is not the only species that is threatened by mining and oil projects.
National Mining Association (NMA) Senior Vice President and General Counsel Katie Sweeney told a Senate panel that the Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) withdrawal of more than 10 million acres of mineral-rich federal land from mining activity under the guise of
sage grouse conservation "will cause serious hardship to the nation's economic and mineral security," while doing nothing to combat proven threats to the
sage grouse.
