Many of the sage grouse’s sub-populations in California are below the minimum population threshold, increasingly isolated and at imminent risk of disappearing. Greater sage grouse are famous for their ...

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 live in California’s high deserts, but these birds are facing extinction from wildfires, invasive grasses, junipers, wild horses and development.

The agency said it would continue diverting about 1,000 acre-feet of water per year to protect the estimated 600 sage grouse in the area, a segment of a subspecies only found along the California ...

SAN DIEGO— The Center for Biological Diversity filed a petition today to protect greater sage grouse in the state under the California Endangered Species Act. The petition, filed with the California ...

In 2010, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service found that listing the greater sage grouse was warranted but precluded by higher priority species. On Nov. 21, 2022, the commission received the petition ...

RENO -- For the third time in a decade, federal wildlife officials are contemplating whether the bi-state sage grouse deserves protection under the Endangered Species Act. Conservationists blame ...

As mentioned, sage grouse inhabit the sage brush steppes of the West, a region including parts of Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada, California, Oregon, Idaho, and bits of surrounding states.

Nevada Bi-state sage grouse considered for threatened status for third time in 10 years The flightless bird is found in only Nevada and California, along the Sierra Nevada's eastern front ...

USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service has $1.3 million to spend in California as part of initiatives to conserve sage grouse and the Southwestern Willow Flycatcher.

California sage-grouse remain genetically diverse, for now Date: September 16, 2015 Source: Central Ornithology Publication Office Summary: Genetic diversity is essential for a species to be able ...