The Salt Lake Tribune

Voices: The sage grouse is running out of time. We can’t afford more rounds of ineffectual planning.

The fate of the greater sage grouse, a remarkable bird that once flourished across the American West, now largely rests with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Right now, BLM is in the final stages ...
Field & Stream

Sage Grouse: Icon of the West

Famous for their displays during the spring breeding season, sage grouse inhabit the steppes of the American west. Big birds, they can weigh up to 6 pounds, and they can look even bigger when they ...
OPB

Ranchers in southeast Oregon helped keep sage grouse off the endangered list. Now, lithium mining could pose a new threat

Biologist Jack Hansen started up an ATV and drove through a dark sea of sagebrush just before dawn on a snowy morning in early April. This is what he does every spring morning to monitor about a dozen ...
CounterPunch

Conservation Groups Sue Bureau of Land Management to Stop Destruction of Critical Sage Grouse Habitat

Greater sage grouse occupied more than 460,000 square miles across 13 Western states, including Montana, and three Canadian provinces before European settlement in the 1800s. But since that time, ...
OPB

Where have all the sage grouse gone? A conservation mystery in south-central Washington

In south-central Washington’s patchwork of sagebrush and agricultural fields, one man is spending his early, early mornings searching for sage grouse. If he finds the quirky birds — that could mean ...