WASHINGTON (CN) - Both environmentalists and energy developers expressed support for the Interior Department's decision Friday to list the sage grouse as a candidate for the endangered species list, ...

There are some greater sage grouse that have recently had an alien experience - bright lights, capture and medical-like procedures - on the prairies north of Roundup and Lavina. That is where Jenny ...

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 ...

The U.S. Department of Interior has decided that the greater sage grouse, a peculiar and distinctly Western bird, does not need protection under the Endangered Species Act. In a statement, Interior ...

The Redwood Region Audubon Society will present a free online program next week about the greater sage-grouse, a large, round-bodied bird with a spiky tail and elaborate mating displays. “Planning ...

The numbers are bleak — both for the iconic Western bird and its sagebrush habitat. Can the Bureau of Land Management and state wildlife agencies reverse the trend? The imperiled greater sage grouse, ...

WASHINGTON— The Bureau of Land Management’s “Greater Sage-Grouse Rangewide Planning” was released today and lays out the agency’s intentions for 65 million acres of the bird’s habitat on public lands ...

Sage grouse are being reviewed a second time because of a federal suit filed by Idaho’s own Western Watersheds Project in 2006. In December 2007, U.S. District Judge B. Lynn Winmill overturned a ...

Wyoming's official state bird will remain the Western meadowlark, at least for now. The Joint Travel, Recreation, Wildlife and Cultural Resources Interim Committee decided Tuesday to not sponsor a ...

Sage grouse are the largest member of the grouse family in North America. They’re a chicken-like bird with a maximum height of 2 feet and length of about 2.5 feet. Male birds are twice as large as ...

John Freemuth receives funding from the U.S. Geological Survey and the Bureau of Land Management, and is Executive Director of the Andrus Center for Public Policy at Boise State University. The Center ...