According to ODFW’s 2021 sage grouse report, the estimated population of the birds in Baker County (and a small part of southern Union County) in the spring of that year was 704.

Going back to the late 1990s, critics of cattle grazing on federal land pushed for more stringent restrictions on ranchers, arguing that cows aren’t good for sage grouse, an iconic Western ...

MOSCOW, Idaho (KIFI) — Sage grouse and cows can coexist on the same land without declines in greater sage grouse nest success or insect abundance, according to a 10-year University of Idaho study.

Sage grouse and cattle share the Great Divide Basin of Wyoming. Wildlife managers have been working with ranchers to protect the habitat of the sage grouse. The Sage Grouse Initiative was a huge ...

The idea for an extensive sage grouse and cattle grazing research project was spurred by opposition to spring cattle grazing on federal land in the early 2000s and a lack of science to inform the ...

MOSCOW — Moderate cattle grazing on public lands does not reduce sage-grouse nest success, according to a newly published 10-year University of Idaho study. The findings suggest sage-grouse and cows ...

The list of animals that feed on carrion include wolves and ravens. The former pose a threat to cattle and other livestock. For sage grouse, the risk comes from ravens, according to wildlife ...

Brad Phelps remembers sage grouse numbering in the hundreds in the uplands of his family’s 700-acre cattle ranch when he was a teenager. “Twenty years later, it was 12 birds,” Phelps says.

Photo courtesy of the Alliance for the Wild Rockies. The numbers don’t lie — and the sage grouse “collaborative conservation effort” is a total and on-going failure.

She said the cattle can help restore sagebrush territory in southeast Oregon. Sage grouse on a lek surrounded by mining claims in the McDermitt Caldera on Saturday, April 2, 2022.