This story is a part of the ongoing Back 40 series, where HCN reporters look at national trends and their impacts close to home. Gunnison sage grouse have much in common with Goldilocks – they like it ...

Gunnison sage grouse are hanging on in Southwest Colorado, but their numbers are dropping, and the population in Dove Creek might have disappeared. The plucky, ground-dwelling bird famous for its ...

DENVER – The old adage in the West is that “whiskey is for drinking; water is for fighting over.” Enter the Gunnison sage-grouse. The chicken-sized bird with spiky tail feathers and a lavish mating ...

First identified in 1977 as a species unto itself, the Gunnison sage-grouse is the focus of conservation efforts that united 11 Western Slope counties. The possible listing of the bird as endangered ...

WASHINGTON, DC, January 15, 2013 (ENS) – The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has proposed to list the Gunnison sage-grouse as Endangered under the Endangered Species Act and designate 1.7 million acres ...

Gunnison, Colo. (CN) --- As the sun baked a late-spring day, habitat biologist Paul Jones pointed to the remains of a homestead patented in the 1920s along Chance Gulch in western Colorado’s Gunnison ...

"BLM's draft plan does not include safeguards that are needed to protect some of the best remaining Gunnison sage-grouse habitat from oil and gas drilling and other threats," Megan Mueller, senior ...

Proposed land-use restrictions across 2.1 million acres in Colorado and Utah include 1-mile buffers around all grouse breeding grounds. The Bureau of Land Management is proposing a major new plan to ...

A male Gunnison sage-gouse puts on a display on BLM land near Gunnison. Photo by Noppadol Paothong / Courtesy Colorado Parks & Wildlife The Local newsletter is your free, daily guide to life in ...

In the late 1980s, conservation biologist Jessica Young was an undergraduate researching the sage grouse in the Sierra Nevada when one of her professors handed her a cassette tape. He said there was a ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Dave Showalter, Colorado Parks and Wildlife via AP, file This April 2014 photo provided by Colorado Parks and Wildlife shows a Gunnison sage grouse with tail ...

GUNNISON, Colo.— Colorado’s Gunnison sage-grouse populations plummeted this spring to the lowest points since reliable records began to be kept in the 1990s, according to recently released state ...