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 ...

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 ...

A plan to improve habitat for the threatened Gunnison sage grouse in San Miguel County has been proposed by the Tres Rios Field office of the Bureau of Land Management. The agency is seeking public ...

COLORADO – A federal judge has upheld the Endangered Species Act protection for the Gunnison sage grouse. The judge’s refusal to remove the sage grouse from the list upholds the U.S. Fish and Wildlife ...

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 ...

The Waunita Lek near Gunnison, mating grounds for a large group of Gunnison sage grouse, is open for public viewings, and bird watchers will have good news to share with the rare species, which puts ...

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 ...

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 ...

U.S. Fish and Wildlife has 30 months to submit a draft plan to recover the threatened species. With approximately 4,000 of the birds left in southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah, divided into ...