The greater sage grouse, in a way, is a barometer for the health of the land. Its numbers have been dropping for years in California. Scientists have pointed to several reasons: habitat loss, land ...

The hen-sized flightless bird can be found in just two states — Nevada and California — in ... The bi-state grouse is a cousin of the greater sage grouse found across 12 western states from ...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (CN) — The California Department of Fish and Wildlife has recommended that the greater sage grouse receive protections under the state's Endangered Species Act, after reviewing a ...

The Interior Department said Tuesday it won't propose federal protections for the greater sage grouse, a chicken-sized bird that ranges across 11 states from California to the Dakotas. The ...

The sea and the greater sage grouse weave around peaks and cities, across 165 million arid acres and 11 states from Northern California to North Dakota. Yet both the bird population and its ...

Northeastern California is at the far western end of the range of Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus), and the fringe population there is declining due to the ongoing invasion of their ...

Sage grouse are compared to the Northern Spotted Owl because their 1990 listing as threatened in the forests of Washington, Oregon, and California impacted logging the way a grouse listing ...

Some 88 percent of current sage grouse habitats on private lands in the Mono Basin area have no conservation easements at all. Meanwhile, counties in both Nevada and California have failed to ...

In a decision that could reverberate across the West, the Obama administration announced Tuesday that it will not designate a small population of greater sage grouse in Nevada and California as ...

The bird is a genetically distinct subpopulation of the Mono Basin sage grouse, and officials were petitioned to list it for protection in 2005. In California, the birds are found in Inyo ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Federal wildlife officials on Friday proposed to list as threatened populations of greater sage grouse in Nevada and California in an effort to save the species, a decision that ...