Sage grouse, which put on one of nature's great performances, are steadily in decline It was a few minutes after dawn on a frigid morning in March almost 15 years ago that I discovered that sage ...

I am no stranger to getting up pre-dawn, stumbling around in the dark and finding remote locations that I have never been to before. So, it was “just another day at the office” when I recently went to ...

Dawn is the best time to boogie if you’re a greater sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus). In spring, as many as 70 of the iconic male grouse will gather at each dance floor (called a “lek”) before ...

BOWMAN COUNTY, N.D. - Stan Kohn and I were laughing like new friends do when they’ve just discovered a common interest. We were in his pickup at first light on an April morning. The distant hills were ...

ROGERSON — About a dozen birds fly in at about 4:30 a.m. from all directions, like a rag-tag squadron of chicken-sized helicopters. It takes a minute for all the male grouse to arrive at the small ...

Even in the states with thousands of sage grouse, “when you start breaking it down (into local habitats), many of the populations are very small, very fragmented,” and headed toward oblivion, says ...