This analysis examines declining fragmentation impacts from oil and gas development in Wyoming over the last 20 years due to ...

BLM leaders never had the desire or will to do what it takes to preserve Sage-grouse populations. Sage-grouse plans make ...

The plans apply to 69 million acres of BLM-managed public lands across 10 western states, which amounts to about half of the remaining habitat for the greater sage grouse. Greater sage grouse rely on ...

Habitat loss and fragmentation are largely responsible for their decline. Grouse prefer huge expanses of sage with a healthy understory of flowering plants and grasses to help them hide from predators ...

In Montana and the Dakotas, more than 726,000 acres were identified as potential Areas of Critical Environmental Concern (ACECs) due to the sage grouse habitat they provide. The Greater Sage ...

For greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus), one of the potential factors that may lead to habitat loss, degradation, and fragmentation, and concurrently to population declines, is mining.

Experts say the greater sage grouse is in decline and threatened with extinction because its habitat has been splintered by wildfires, invasive plants and human land use. But this chickenlike bird ...

The Western Slope’s newest congressman, Jeff Hurd, has proposed reopening thousands of acres of federal public land across ...

However, it is not clear whether these same techniques improve habitat conditions for wildlife species that depend on sagebrush such as sage-grouse, particularly because Wyoming big sagebrush ...