When counted in 2023 on their spring mating grounds, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks estimated sage grouse populations in the state at about 51,000 birds, down from around 53,000 last year and ...

Unless grouse migrate into North Dakota from neighboring states, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum’s home state will be the ...

FILE - This April 2014 photo provided by Colorado Parks and Wildlife shows a Gunnison sage grouse with tail feathers fanned near Gunnison, Colo.

BILLINGS, Mont. - The Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Commission has approved looking into a plan to send 80 female sage grouse to North Dakota to bolster dwindling populations.Reports say that ...

Sage grouse populations in Alberta have been struggling for years, declining from highs of 1,000 to 1,500 birds in the early 1980s to fewer than 50 by 2011, according to Fish, Wildlife and Parks.

Montana has more sage grouse habitat on private land than in any other of the 11 Western states where the grouse lives.

The state Fish, Wildlife and Parks Department is taking steps to develop a conservation plan for sage grouse in an effort to keep the bird off of the federal threatened and endangered list.

The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission voted 3-1 to relocate 40 greater sage grouse hens this year across the border to Alberta, where an estimated 100 to 120 of the birds are left.

Montana's drop from almost 78,000 grouse in 2016 was traced to an extreme drought in eastern parts of the state in 2017, said Catherine Wightman with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks.

The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission will vote on a recommendation by the state Fish, Wildlife and Parks agency to send 40 greater sage grouse to Alberta this year, followed by 40 more in 2018 ...

The Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission approved a plan Thursday to close all or parts of 32 counties to sage-grouse hunting and to shorten the hunting season from two months to one.