The Sage Grouse Initiative is proud to be part of the Working Lands for Wildlife partnership of the Natural Resources Conservation Service and today’s celebration of private landowners conserving working lands.

SGI has a new national brochure to take to the upcoming OWAA meeting in Texas next week. Dave Naugle, SGI science advisor & University of Montana professor, will be on a keynote panel.

The Sand County Foundation has released a beautifully written, 40-page full-color publication by writer Andy Rieber called On the Land, Celebrating Farmers and Ranchers Who Improve Our Environment.

In a continuing series of articles, Capital Press has published two more articles on the Sage Grouse Initiative from last week’s Twin Falls, Idaho Meeting, featured here with related article links.

Last week’s Sage Grouse Initiative Workshop for staff and partners in Twin Falls, Idaho, gave ranchers an opportunity to explain why they are partnering up with the Sage Grouse Initiative–in fact about 1000-strong according to the latest figures.

Field & Stream Magazine’s Hero for a Day video series has chosen the Sage Grouse Initiative to highlight, and will be filming May 9 and 10 near Billings, Montana. The focus is on volunteers helping mark fences on ranches to prevent sage grouse collisions.

Across 11 western states in sage grouse strongholds, 24 biologists and range conservationists funded to carry out the Sage Grouse Initiative are making a tangible difference. Read the latest quarterly report on field delivery, science and communications.

In Southeast Montana, however, the birds have persisted at sustainable levels and the ability to sustain seems to point to the fact that many traditional landowners have maintained large expanses of intact sagebrush habitat.