The Trump administration finalized the plans in December, stripping protections approved in 2015 by Western states and ...

Seven environmental groups on Monday asked a federal judge to enjoin and remand the Trump administration’s land plans that rolled back protections for the greater sage-grouse in nine Western states.

A new policy adopted by the Bureau of Land Management would open up 71 million acres of land to oil and gas drilling, as well as mining.

Conservation groups sued the Bureau of Land Management today to challenge its final plans governing greater sage grouse management across 71 million acres of federal public lands in nine Western ...

The fate of the greater sage grouse, a remarkable bird that once flourished across the American West, now largely rests with the Bureau of Land Management (BLM). Right now, BLM is in the final stages ...

The Biden administration released its final proposal for protecting greater sage grouse on Friday. In an advance press release, the U.S. Department of the Interior said the proposals will balance sage ...

North Dakota’s greater sage grouse population appears to have gone extinct, the latest setback in the ongoing battle to save the iconic Western bird and its dwindling sagebrush habitat. State wildlife ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sagegrouse in the Grasshopper Watershed (Photo courtesy of Alliance for the Wild Rockies). The numbers don’t lie — and the sage ...

A 10-year study led by federal and academic researchers appears to dispel the long-held notion that cattle grazing and the resulting lower grass height negatively affect the success of greater sage ...

North Dakota's sage grouse has been shrinking, and this spring they counted zero male birds on the state's two known leks. Eleven western states are home to greater sage grouse, the largest grouse in ...

OWYHEE CANYONLANDS, Ore.—Peering through a spotting scope in this remote section of eastern Oregon, Skyler Vold quietly muttered “Oh man” over and over. In his sight was an open clearing surrounded by ...

Free-roaming horses may be a charismatic symbol of the Western U.S., but new research shows that when their numbers grow, they tend to gallop roughshod over one of the region’s most imperiled birds.