Proposed land-use restrictions across 2.1 million acres in Colorado and Utah include 1-mile buffers around all grouse breeding grounds. The Bureau of Land Management is proposing a major new plan to ...

Despite ongoing conservation efforts, a Western bird continues to face sharp population declines at the hands of climate change-induced impacts to its habitat which include wildfires and drought ...

The Gunnison sage-grouse seems to be getting a clawhold on Pinyon Mesa, according to recent tallies of the bird's population in Colorado and Utah. The largest population of the birds, that in the ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. - The governors of Wyoming and Colorado are teaming up with the head of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to chair a task force dedicated to protecting sage grouse. Wyoming Gov. Matt ...

DENVER (Reuters) - U.S. wildlife authorities listed the Gunnison sage grouse as threatened on Wednesday, disappointing environmental activists who wanted the species given greater protection, and ...

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 ...

Members of the team called for the hunting review after learning that hunters last season shot an estimated 7,600 greater sage grouse in Wyoming. Hunters still pursue greater sage grouse in seven of ...

GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - State wildlife biologists will draft a plan to try to reverse the decline in sage grouse numbers in northwestern Colorado, an effort environmentalists say is critical ...

Three environmental organizations filed protests Monday against 14 plans for the management of greater sage-grouse habitat on federal land in the West, calling the plans "weak." The plans could lead ...

This story, “Walk Up a Flight,” appeared in the August 1953 issue of Outdoor Life. Sage hens are another name for sage grouse. “Just a thousand miles away from home-and a-waitin’ for a train.” The ...