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

An organization dedicated to preserving the endangered lesser prairie chicken and other grouse species is changing tactics to work with farmers and ranchers on grassland preservation and needed ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Western states have flocked together in support of new resource management plans they say favor their rural life.

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 ...

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 recovery program resulted in bringing 1,000 new birds to the Adirondacks, including more than 700 chicks and is now ...

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 ...

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 ...