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Published 11/05/2009 by Biodiversity Conservation Alliance


New Study Chronicles Declining Populations, Major Threats to Sage-Grouse

Feds Considering ESA Listing for Greater and Mono Basin Sage-Grouse

The U.S. Geological Survey has posted 24 of 25 chapters of a new, definitive monograph on sage-grouse just months before the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is scheduled to render multiple listing...

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...entatively titled “ "Ecology and Conservation of Greater Sage-Grouse: A Landscape Species and its Habitats,” documents declining populations and major threats to this imperiled species, from energy development and West Nile virus to invasive species and free-roaming horses and burros.This long-awaited Monograph to be published in Studies in Avian Biology is expected to have a strong influence on the sage-grouse Endangered Species listing decision."
New Study Chronicles Declining Populations, Major Threats to Sage-Grouse [Biodiversity Conservation Alliance - 11/05/2009]
"Sage-grouse respond negatively to three different types of development and conventional densities of oil and gas wells far exceed the species’ threshold of tolerance" (chapter 21)
New Study Chronicles Declining Populations, Major Threats to Sage-Grouse [Biodiversity Conservation Alliance - 11/05/2009]
"In Wyoming, the population study forecasts an 85% chance that grouse will be extirpated in the Powder River Basin if current trends continue, with a 55% chance that grouse will also disappear from the neighboring Yellowstone River watershed" said Erik Molvar, Wildlife...
New Study Chronicles Declining Populations, Major Threats to Sage-Grouse [Biodiversity Conservation Alliance - 11/05/2009]

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