“You don’t own the ranch. The ranch owns you,” says John Peavey, a third generation rancher and former state senator. He joins other voices of Idaho ranchers taking historic steps to assure a future for working lands.

A conservation strategy in Wyoming that targets “core” habitats where sage grouse numbers are highest will reduce losses of sage grouse dramatically…

Thanks to a generous grant from the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), Montana Association of Conservation Districts was able to award four more grants to help conserve sage grouse. In keeping with BLM’s responsibility to cover Montana as well as the Dakotas, one grant went to South Dakota.

“We’re on the gain here for sage grouse,” says rancher Kay D. Leander, who lives in Douglas County near Leahy Junction, about 30 miles west of Grand Coulee Dam, Washington. Leander keeps his eye on the sage grouse that use his ranch, along with other wildlife.

Ely, Nevada – Cattle ranchers Don and Sheila Phillips want to help out sage grouse on their ranch, but Don wasn’t convinced those new white vinyl markers he’d agreed to add to the top strands of certain fences would do anything to prevent bird collisions.

BOZEMAN – Two teen leaders from California and Michigan along with six volunteers from Bozeman pitched in to collect plant species important to sage grouse.

Canada’s only viable population of sage grouse depends on habitats in two countries. The revelation that the birds migrate 70 to 120 miles south each winter came from USDA science advisor Dave Naugle’s radio-tracking study in Grasslands National Park (near the border).

n early 2012, the Colorado Cattlemen’s Agricultural Land Trust (CCALT) teamed up with partners to protect 2,240 acres of the historic Coyte Ranch in North Park, the largest and most intact mountain valley in Colorado, and home to nesting sage grouse.