Federal land managers say they believe their new plan for the embattled greater sage grouse will enhance conservation efforts while providing energy and mineral development companies the space to grow ...

The Fish and Wildlife Service has been chronically slow to protect animals and plants under the Endangered Species Act, ...

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 ...

A multi-agency study, spearheaded by researchers from the University of Nevada, Reno’s College of Agriculture, Biotechnology & Natural Resources and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, underscores the ...

Wyoming leaders are largely happy with the Bureau of Land Management’s recently approved revisions to its greater sage-grouse ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...