BLM Wyoming Newsletter 

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Landscape Treatments Improve Sage-grouse Habitat  The Cody Field Office implemented an integrated strategy for sage-grouse habitat landscape conservation.   [more...]

Oil & Gas Industry Contributes to Sage-grouse Protection ConocoPhillips (Burlington Resources), Noble Energy, and EnCana Oil & Gas are funding a three-year project using 40+ GPS-based radio receivers to study Sage-grouse movements, habitat selection, and breeding and nesting success in the Moneta-Lysite area which is undergoing intensive gas development.   [more...]

Escape Ramps Installed Using monies provided by the Wyoming Sage-grouse Conservation Fund, numerous escape ramps were purchased and distributed to agency, private, and tribal landowners.   [more...]

Vegetation Treatments The Worland Field Office (WFO) is currently involved with several vegetation treatment projects to protect and enhance sage-grouse habitat on a landscape scale, while considering ecological, economic, and cumulative impacts.   [more...]

Wind River Bighorn Basin District BLM Fire Suppression on Sage-grouse Habitat The Wind River/Bighorn Basin District (WR/BBD) fire program has identified Greater sage-grouse habitat as a high priority for wildfire suppression.   [more...]

Powder River Basin Initiative An Approach to Restoring Sage-Grouse Habitat within the Powder River Basin  The High Plains District Office (HPDO) is in the initial stages of planning the Powder River Basin Initiative (PRBI).    [more...]

Bird Flight Diverters Installed The Pinedale Field Office (PFO) will install 1,200 Firefly bird flight diverters on fences throughout the PFO area.    [more...]

Sage-grouse Genetic Study Underway The Pinedale Field Office (PFO) is assisting Beringia South, a Jackson, Wyo. wildlife consultant, in a sage-grouse genetic analysis by providing $20,000 in funding and over 200 sage- grouse blood samples collected from PFO area sage-grouse since 2005.   [more...]

Helicopter Flights used in Monitoring The Pinedale Field Office (PFO) conducts annual helicopter flights to survey for Greater Sage-grouse in January and February.   [more...]

Sage-grouse Water Source Protected Chicken Springs, located 30 miles northwest of Rawlins, Wyo., is so named for its traditional use by Greater Sage-grouse as a watering hole and its location just west of one of the largest leks in Wyoming.  [more...]

Volunteer Opportunity The Rock Springs Field Office (RSFO) and the Wyoming Game and Fish Department (WGFD) have ongoing studies of portions of area fences to help identify impacts to Sage-grouse and determine the most appropriate methods to reduce these impacts.   [more...]