sage grouse
Noun
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large grouse of sagebrush regions of North America
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A full suppression strategy is being utilized to minimize the impact to sage grouse habitat, private and federal grazing lands, and timber.
Everything else is a lot cooler, like to see a fish floating through with its school, or to see a sunset out walking, or sage grouse in a lek breeding.
A lawsuit filed in May against the U.S. Department of Interior by four Northwest Colorado counties, including Moffat, cited an estimated negative annual impact of $240.5 to $584 million due to the sage grouse plan.
Anyone working on sage-grouse conservation, including me, would like to see more habitat protected and I hope that we can get there by simply letting science guide conservation efforts.
Currently, greater sage-grouse populations are dwindling; if they continue to decrease in numbers, the greater sage-grouse could join the Gunnison sage-grouse on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s list of threatened species.
One obstacle is that Simpson Ridge is habitat for sage grouse and carries certain restrictions on development.