sage grouse

Federal biologists say a strip mine at the backdoor to Utah's storybook Bryce Canyon National Park will wipe out the southernmost population of sage grouse, even as their agency resists a broader effort to protect the bird across the West.

The Nevada Department of Wildlife says applications are being accepted for a special sage grouse hunt at Sheldon National Wildlife Refuge.

An environmental group has filed another legal challenge over the federal government's decision not to give the sage grouse protection under the Endangered Species Act.

This undated image provided the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service show a wild sage grouse.

A male sage grouse puts on a display during near Burns during mating season in 2004.. Farmers and ranchers in Oregon, Washington and nine other western states can help protect both their operations and sage grouse thanks to an agreement between two federal agencies.

Three environmental groups announced Monday they intend to sue the Interior Department for not protecting sage grouse as an endangered or threatened species.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to allocate up to $16 million to encourage farmers and ranchers in 11 Western states to protect sage grouse and the chicken-sized bird's habitat.

Nevada's wildlife chief has expressed concerns over a federal agency's listing priority for a population of sage grouse found along the Nevada-California line.

An iconic bird living in western U.S. sagebrush country faces extinction but won't be named an endangered species, the U.S.

Interior Department said Friday.

The Interior Department plans to announce whether it will pursue endangered species protection for sage grouse, a decision with major ramifications for the West's renewable energy and oil and gas industries.