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.

It takes a village to protect a sage grouse — or at least the vinyl siding that would sheath the homes in a village. Over the past three years, COR Enterprises employees in Billings have cut more than ...

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 ...

“ 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 ...

As the Bureau of Land Management works to revise its Resources Management Plan Amendments for greater sage grouse, Wyoming’s sagebrush steppe expert has a message for grouse in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...