The Billings Gazette

Saving Montana sage grouse habitat running into funding slump

I think this is one of the best ... potential projects in Montana because of the core habitat and the connectivity,” - Sen.
Mountain Journal

Are Beavers Montana’s Latest Transplants?

Draft proposal to relocate beavers within state borders could improve watershed health, bolster climate resiliency ...
Bozeman Daily Chronicle

Out of lek: High land prices stall Montana sage grouse conservation easements

Brett French Lee Newspapers Dec 23, 2024 Dec 23, 2024 With land prices soaring in Montana, groups that assist landowners with conservation easements to protect sage grouse habitat from being developed ...
The Montana Standard

Sage grouse habitat shrinking

“ The Forest Service has neglected its duty to protect sage grouse and its habitat for 15 years,” said the wildlife federation's counsel Tom France. “ It's time for the service to live up to its ...
Casper Star-Tribune

Cattlemen ask hunters to shoot fewer sage grouse

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) - A ranching group's recommendation that landowners, ranchers and hunters reduce hunting pressure on sage grouse this fall is drawing criticism from hunting groups and wildlife ...
Independent Record

Sage grouse won’t make endangered species list

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — An Interior Department announcement Friday that it won’t list sage grouse as an endangered or threatened species opens the way for continued development of the West’s wind energy and ...
Independent Record

Easement protects sage grouse habitat

BILLINGS — Sage grouse gained a guarantee in 2012 that a portion of their brushy prairie habitat in northeastern Montana won’t be developed. Late last year, Sterling Carroll, owner of more than 16,000 ...
katu

Sage grouse stability opens door to wind farms

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) - An Interior Department announcement Friday that it won't list sage grouse as an endangered or threatened species opens the way for continued development of the West's wind energy ...
The Montana Standard

Sage Grouse: Conservation or regulation?

Over the last several years, sportsmen, ranchers and oil and natural gas companies have worked with federal and state wildlife agencies, and local working groups to develop effective mitigation ...
Billings Gazette

High land prices stall Montana sage grouse conservation easements

With land prices soaring in Montana, groups that assist landowners with conservation easements to protect sage grouse habitat from being developed are running into a financial roadblock.
Bozeman Daily Chronicle

Out of lek?: Saving Montana sage grouse habitat running into funding slump

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. A $1.2 million conservation easement to protect sage grouse habitat on 4,417 acres of the ...