the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service decided not to place the bird on the Endangered Species List. But in 2019, the government allowed drilling on nine million acres of crucial sage grouse habitat ...

The Biden administration on Thursday took steps to safeguard an iconic bird species of the Wester United States — but did so in only two out of the 10 states where such protections were ...

and others theorize that the birds are a genetic throwback to old pre-settlement genetics of the species. “If you read the settler accounts, ruffed grouse was a much more docile, calmer bird ...

The announcements come just days before the start of the Trump administration, which is widely expected to promote extractive ...

Black grouse are red listed as a species of high conservation concern. The project will involve capturing the birds at night ...

“It’s time for the agency to finalize a robust plan for greater sage grouse and meet its obligations under the law to prevent the species from going extinct.” The plans apply to 69 million acres of ...

The loss of this already isolated "bi-state" sage grouse population would create a gap in the range of the species as a whole. It would ruin the integrity of unique Mono Basin ecosystems and rob the ...