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Sage Grouse

• Video: The Gunnison Basin Gunnison Sage-Grouse Working Group. Clait E. Braun
• Feds: Gunnison grouse not 'threatened' April 13, 2006
  • Gunnison Sage-grouse Population Trend Analysis November 15, 2005(PDF)
• Interview: Gunnison Sage Grouse. Colorado Matters (CPR). March 2006 (audio, 7 minutes)
• Explorers find sage grouse in abundance: Series on Web site. The Free Lance Star (3/18/06)
• Conservation Plan for the Greater Sage-grouse in Idaho: March 2006 Public Review Draft
• Study: Gas development harms sage grouse (1/20/06)
• Sage-Grouse Habitat Restoration Symposium Proceedings June 4–7 2001, Boise, ID. Proceedings RMRS-P-38 November 2005
• Video: Talkin' Turkey! Mr. President, pardon our western grouse for Thanksgiving. (includes some good grouse footage) 2 minutes 28 seconds. .wvx video (November, 2005)
• Hart Mountain & Sage Grouse. Audio transcript of presentation by Dr. Steve Herman. RangeNet 2000 Conference. Reno, NV. November 2000. 49 minutes. RealAudio 3mb 

• Gunnison Sage-Grouse Rangewide Conservation Plan (final)

• Identifying Habitats for Persistence of Greater Sage-Grouse  (Centrocercus urophasianus) in Alberta, Canada. by Cameron L. Aldridge. Spring 2005. (thesis) (PDF)

• RMRS-GTR-136: RMRS-GTR-136: Restoring Western Ranges and Wildlands (3 volumes, PDF)

• The World of Sage Grouse (Tip. use speed control to control display rate. Right click to pause & repeatedly right click to step through individual frames)

• Greater Sage-grouse Conservation Assessment and Strategy for Oregon: Draft 30 December 2004 (PDF)

• FWS Status Review Completed: Greater Sage-Grouse Not Warranted for Listing as Endangered or Threatened Jan. 7, 2005

• Proceedings: 24th Meeting of the Western Agencies Sage and Columbian Sharp-tailed Grouse Technical Committee. Wenatchee, Washington.  June 28 – July 1, 2004

• Final BLM Conservation Efforts for Greater Sage-grouse and Sagebrush Habitats Report to FWS 11/24/2004 (Chapter IV posted here 12/31/04)

• Sage Grouse listing decision notice delayed (12/31/04)

• U.S. Panel Recommends No Protection for Grouse (12/3/04)

  • Grouse unlikely to find shelter on endangered list

• Lesser Prairie Chicken: The Sky Really is Falling. Forest Guardians. November 23, 2004 (PDF)

• Presidential Pardon Requested for Endangered Western Grouse Species (11/23/04)

• Sage-grouse data challenge: A looming iceberg tip for natural resource management?

• BLM releases plan to boost sage grouse population

• BLM's National Strategy for Conserving Sage-Grouse on Public Lands

  • National Sage-Grouse Habitat Conservation Strategy: Instruction Memorandum No. 2005-024

  • Bureau of Land Management National Sage-Grouse Habitat Conservation Strategy, November 2004 (PDF)

  • Guidance for Addressing Sagebrush Habitat Conservation in BLM Land Use Plans

  • Guidance for the Management of Sagebrush Plant Communities for Sage-Grouse Conservation

• West Nile virus: pending crisis for greater sage-grouse. D. E. Naugle et al. (2004) (PDF)

• Sage grouse topic of meetings (Oregon) Statesman Journal 7/27/04

• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Reopens Comment Period on Greater Sage Grouse. (comment by July 30, 2004)

• Sage grouse of Western plains seen as next 'spotted owl'. Christian Science Monitor, June 25, 2004.

• Conserving the Greater Sage Grouse. Western Governors' Association, June, 2004 (PDF)

• BLM Sage-Grouse Habitat Conservation Program

• USGS SAGEMAP: Database for Sage Grouse and Shrubsteppe Management in the Intermountain West

• Conservation Assessment of Greater Sage-Grouse and Sagebrush Habitats. WAFWA. June, 2004.

• 1999 Western Sage Grouse Status Conference Proceedings (multimedia)

• Western Agencies Sage and Columbian Sharp-tailed Grouse Workshop: Wenatchee, Washington.  June 28 - July 1, 2004

• Wildlife Biologists Say Enviro Petition on Sage Grouse Is "Fundamentally Flawed" 5/18/04 (Ed. note: The "report" referenced in this press release is one prepared by big oil's paid consultants as part of the anti-listing campaign of the industry coalition "Partnership for the West". It IS NOT the comprehensive scientific assessment that is being prepared by the "Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies" (WAFWA) under contract to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service!)

  • Bigger Box for BIG Oil

• Rocky Mts. energy groups to fight bird protection. Forbes. 5/9/04

• Bigger Box for BIG Oil. RangeBiome Editorial. 5/8/04

• Guinn, BLM, Farm Bureau say politics won't affect sage grouse 5/7/04

• Grouse closer to protection (Gunnison) 5/7/04

• Industry coalition's internal sage grouse memo causes flap 5/6/04

• Conservation Assessment of Greater Sage-Grouse and Sagebrush Habitats: An assessment of the species' habitat and populations. DRAFT, 4/7/04 (notice of unavailability)

• Sage Grouse Anti-Listing Campaign Update Memo. Partnership for the West. (4/30/04) (notice of unavailability)

  • Executive Summary, Sage Grouse Conservation Task Force. Partnership for the West. (PDF) (unavailable)

  • Briefing: Saving the Greater Sage Grouse... ...From the ESA. Partnership for the West. April, 2004 [PowerPoint]          

  • Briefing: 2004 Priorities. Western Governots' Association. April 2004. [PowerPoint]         

  • Briefing: Rangewide Conservation of Sage Grouse and Sagebrush. Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (WAFWA) and the Sage Grouse Conservation Planning Framework Team. April, 2004. [PowerPoint - 49mb]         

• State unveils sage grouse management plan (MT) 4/22/04

• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to Initiate a Status Review of the Greater Sage-Grouse (4/16/04)

• Feds considering petition to list sage grouse as endangered (4/3/04)

• Suit seeks to save Gunnison sage grouse (3/18/04)

• Monthly Sage-Grouse Conference Call: Thursday, March 4, 2004 (BLM)

  • Concept Paper – Sage-grouse Data Request (3/1/04)

  • Consideration of Sage-Grouse Habitat In BLM Land Use Plans (2/23/04)

• Conservation groups seek sage grouse protection (12/24/03)

  • The Petition and other background

• BLM Issues Draft National Sage-Grouse Habitat Conservation Strategy

  • Comment period extended until November 1, 2003

  • Overview: comments due by August 20, 2003

  • DRAFT BLM Sage-Grouse Habitat Conservation Strategy

• CD of 1999 Western Sage Grouse Status Conference Now Available (7/20/03)

• National Sage-grouse Habitat Conservation Strategy Development (BLM Instruction Memorandum No. 2003-209, 7/10/03)

• Sage Grouse in Wyoming case history. Dr. David McDonald. University of Wyoming. February 26, 2003

• Satellites tracking Nevada sage grouse April 28, 2003

• Food Habits of Juvenile Sage Grouse 1968

• Grazing Intensity and the Diversity of Grasshoppers, Butterflies and Trap-Nesting Bees and Wasps. 2002

• Montana's new management plan for sage grouse 'visionary,' biologist says

  • Montana's Sage Grouse Management Plan (deadline for comments = Jan. 20, 2003)

  • Montana Outdoors: Sage grouse plans open to discussion 12/1/02

• SAGEBRUSH AND SAGE GROUSE DOCUMENTS OF INTEREST (USGS SAGEMAP)

• Wyoming Sage Grouse Draft Plan

• Conservation of Greater Sage-Grouse on Public Lands in the Western U.S.: Implications of Recovery and Management Policies. Policy Analysis Center for Western Public Lands (PDF)

• Ranch-Level Impacts of Changing Grazing Policies on BLM Land to Protect the Greater Sage-Grouse: Evidence from Idaho, Nevada and Oregon. Policy Analysis Center for Western Public Lands (PDF)
• Wildlife "Services": Sage Grouse Predator Killing Program in SW Idaho 4/30/02
• Sage grouse strut through rites of spring Idaho Mountain Express 4/24/02
• Bird-watchers flock to rare sage grouse Denver Post 4/21/02
• Feds not interested in sage grouse listing Elko Daily Free Press 4/19/02
• Gunnison Grouse Getting Scarce Salt Lake Tribune 4/14/02
• Pictures and Profiles
  • Greater Sage Grouse
  • Gunnison Sage Grouse
  • Sharp-tailed Grouse
  • Greater Prairie-Chicken
  • Lesser Prairie-Chicken
• Last dance for the sage grouse? High Country News 2/4/02
  • Chick-a-boom-boom at the lek
  • Can cows and grouse coexist on the range?
• Integrated Management of the Greater Prairie Chicken and Livestock on the Sheyenne National Grassland
• Draft Utah Sage-Grouse Conservation Plan. Oct. 10, 2001 (PDF)
• Scientific debate brewing over sage grouse Billings Gazette 10/7/01
• So many grouse, so little time. Blame the cattle
• SAGEMAP: A GIS database for Sage Grouse and Shrubsteppe Management in the Intermountain West
• Under the Sage Grouse Umbrella: Will management for Sage Grouse protect other birds and animals in the sagebrush steppe? (PDF)
• Grazing will be studied for grouse effects Billings Gazette July 21, 2001
• Sage Grouse Strut Their Stuff. Smithsonian Magazine. June 2001
• Saving prairie grouse: Sharp-tailed grouse slowly gains new territory in West (part 1 of 2)
  • Hope for the grouse? Once-plentiful sage grouse loses ground (part 2 of 2)
  • Endangered Species Act judgment for sharp-tail
  • Finding new leks a major part of research
  • Sharp-tailed Grouse Dancing to success

• Sage Grouse Habitat Restoration Symposium: 4 -7 June, 2001. Boise State University. Boise, Idaho

• USFWS "12-Month Finding for a Petition To List the Washington Population of Western Sage Grouse. Federal Register 5/7/01

• Some Recent BLM Sage Grouse References (linked 4/23/01)

  • Information About Sage Grouse Management in Malheur County, Oregon (Nov. 2000)(PDF format)

  • Greater Sage-Grouse and Sagebrush-Steppe Ecosystems Management Guidelines (OR/WA). August 21, 2000 (PDF format)

  • Management and Conservation of Sage Grouse, Denominative Species for the Ecological Health of Shrubsteppe Ecosystems. David S. Dobkin. 1995 (PDF format)

  • Gunnison Sage Grouse Conservation Plan

  • Planning for Sage Grouse in Shoshone Basin (2001)

  • Sage Grouse: A Part of Idaho's High Desert Heritage (PDF format)

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• Sage grouse decline indicates poor health of Western terrain (4/12/01)

• Gunnison and Greater Sage-Grouse Multimedia (linked 3/29/01)

• The Next Spotted Owl? The spotted owl became a rallying cry for the old-growth forests of the Northwest. Can the sage grouse, also in peril, help save the vast shrublands of the inland west? Audubon. Nov.-Dec. 2000.

• Sage Grouse - Spotted Owls Of The Sagebrush Steppe. Listen in RealAudio to a panel discussion presented at the RangeNet 2000 Symposium, Reno NV, 11/28/00

  • Part 1

  • Part 2

• Listing for Columbian sharp-tailed grouse denied by Fish & Wildlife Service (10/11/00)

• 22nd Western States Sage & Columbian Sharp-tailed Grouse Symposium, July 13-14 2000, Redmond OR

  • Abstracts of Presentations
  • Sage Grouse in Wyoming: What happened to all the sage grouse?
  • Using Prescribed Fire to Manage Sagebrush Communities in Occupied Sage Grouse Habitats of Wyoming (posted 7/25/00)
  • Spatial and Temporal Changes of Sage Grouse Habitat in the Sagebrush Biome. OSU Technical Bulletin 151, April 2000 (PDF format)

• Western Sage Grouse Status Conference January 14-15, 1999

  • Conference Summary by Larry Walker
  • Synopsis of Presentations
  • Sage Grouse Declines in Western North America: What are the problems? Clait E. Braun. 1998 (includes extensive bibliography)
  • Videos of Western Sage Grouse Status Conference Presentations are no longer available online. Order the CD 
  • Some Sage Grouse Manuscripts and Master Theses, American Lands Alliance, January 1999

• Additional Resources

  • Last Stand for Icon of the Prairie. Los Angeles Times, May 5, 2000 (posted 7/4/00)
  • Sage Grouse Conservation Project  (website linked 11/3/99)
  • Sage grouse listing possible for West: "Given the land mass involved and the multitude of factors, it's going to be bigger than the spotted owl, much bigger." The Oregonian, 9/15/99
    • Nothing will happen quickly on sage grouse. Herald News, November 16, 1999
    • Group wants grouse on endangered list. Las Vegas Review Journal, March 30, 2000

  • Discussion Bits (updated 6/28/99)

  • Sage Grouse: A California Species of Special Concern

  • Sage Grouse Lek at Lake Crowley

  • Sage and Sharp-tailed Grouse Classified as Threatened Species in Washington

  • Washington Wildlife Research: Prairie Grouse (includes sage grouse audio and animated GIF)

  • Sage Grouse in Wyoming (includes sage grouse audio)

  • Sage Grouse Natural History, Utah

    • A Brief Natural History of the Sage Grouse in Utah (link added 7/15/99)

  • A Basic Guide for Aging and Sexing the Bird in Your Hand: Sage Grouse

  • Centrocercus urophasianus (sage grouse, sage hen, sage chicken): Index of Species Information

  • The Dance of the Sage Grouse

  • The Disappearing Dance of the Sage Grouse

  • Sage Grouse Meeting/Conference Call Summary: BLM Information Bulletin No. ID-99-099

  • Sage Grouse Losing Ground Across the West: Cascadia Times, July 12, 1999

  • The Gunnison Sage Grouse (link added 7/15/99)

    • Environmental group sues Fish and Wildlife over grouse (10/2/00)
    • Gunnison Sage Grouse Conservation Plan (link added 7/15/99)
    • Conservation, Scientific Organizations Petition to List Gunnison Sage Grouse Under the Endangered Species Act. American Lands Press Release January 28, 2000 (posted 7/4/00)
      • Activists Seek to Protect Sage Grouse. The Salt Lake Tribune, February 4, 2000
      • A scarce bird tests the new rule. High Country News, March 13, 2000
    • A Bird Gains Species Status After a Life in the Shadows. The New York Times. July 4, 2000 (posted 7/4/00)
    • Something to grouse about. Montrose Daily Press, January 24, 2000
    • A condition to grouse about. ENN News, February 3, 2000
    • Conservancy buys land for grouse habitat. Cortez Journal Online, October 9, 1999
    • Several Projects Underway for Gunnison Sage Grouse (link added 7/22/00)
    • Easement Protects Habitat for Rare Sage Grouse (link added 7/22/00)
    • Gunnison sage grouse Centrocercus minimus use of fragmented habitats in southwestern Colorado. Wildlife Biology, 1997

  • Desert on a Wing Sage Grouse and Prairie Chicken Leks (link added 7/15/99)

  • Sage Grouse in Northern Nevada in the 1890s (posted 8/7/99)

  • Sage Grouse: A Part of Idaho's High Desert Heritage (posted 8/8/99)

  • A Haven for Prairie Chickens (posted 12/24/99)