DENVER – The federal government this week declared more than 400,000 acres in southwestern Colorado and eastern Utah off-limits to energy exploration or any other kind of development to protect the ...

Legal questions loom over 20,000 acres of prime habitat for mule deer, pronghorn and sage grouse successfully nominated for ...

COMMERCE CITY, Colo. — The Interior Department’s long-awaited decision today not to list the greater sage grouse under the Endangered Species Act was hailed as a conservation triumph by many officials ...

The Biden administration released its final proposal for protecting greater sage grouse on Friday. In an advance press release, the U.S. Department of the Interior said the proposals will balance sage ...

Landowners in Baker, Malheur counties can sell credits to developers whose projects would harm sage grouse Developers who ...

JONAH GAS FIELD, Wyo. — The sound of drill rigs and fracking trucks now rules the high desert here. Gone is the mating call of the greater sage grouse, a showy bird that once strutted among blue-green ...

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management has released a draft management plan for the Greater Sage Grouse, which could tighten conservation and management practices on more than 11 million acres of ...

The Gunnison sage-grouse will be listed as a threatened species, a notch lower than the endangered category its defenders wanted, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Wednesday. The likelihood of ...

When one reads the article by Hal Clifford in High Country News regarding cattlemen and sage grouse (HCN, 2/4/02: Last dance for the sage grouse?), it is very obvious that the ranchers in the realm of ...

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 ...

“Sage grouse management (now) is kind of the overriding umbrella in any management decisions … in sage grouse habitat. Whether it’s grazing issues or gravel pits or road rights of ways, the first ...

Landowners in Baker, Malheur counties can sell credits to developers whose projects would harm sage grouse Developers who want to build solar or wind farms, mine for gold or lithium, or pursue other ...