An organization dedicated to preserving the endangered lesser prairie chicken and other grouse species is changing tactics to ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — An Interior Department announcement Friday that it won’t list sage grouse as an endangered or threatened species opens the way for continued development of the West’s wind energy and ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service would be unable to list two species of sage grouse under the Endangered Species Act under a version of a bill that would provide for the Interior Department. The ...

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Biden administration on Friday said it will consider new measures to protect greater sage grouse, a bird species once found across much of the U.S. West that has suffered ...

The oil and gas industry, cattle grazing and farming are now safe from new restrictions that could have been problematic for Democrats in next year's elections. The Greater Sage Grouse is officially ...

Wyoming leaders are largely happy with the Bureau of Land Management’s recently approved revisions to its greater sage-grouse ...

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 ...

SALT LAKE CITY — Federal land managers say they believe their new plan for the embattled greater sage grouse will enhance conservation efforts while providing energy and mineral development companies ...

To say that sage grouse now are extinct in western North Dakota might be stretching things – but only slightly – after lek surveys this spring failed to find a single male on the mating grounds, a ...

The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation recently reached the end of a multiyear, international effort to ...

Dueling claims about the fate of the Gunnison sage-grouse are at the heart of several cases before a federal court, trying to sort out the bird's listing under the Endangered Species Act. The state of ...

SEATTLE - Despite making clear that sage grouse in the American West warrant listing under the Endangered Species Act, the Obama Administration declined to actually do so Friday. The turkey-sized ...