Sage-grouse
Male sage grouse strutting in the lek.

Owyhee Field Office and partners collaborate to improve sage grouse habitat

Owyhee Field Office and partners collaborate to improve sage grouse habitat
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a fenced area is shown on a sagebrush and grass landscape with blue skies

Flexible grazing program capitalizes on the art and science of range management

BLM Colorado is participating in a pilot program to explore approaches for authorizing and managing grazing use. Operators adjust herd movement and size based on year-to-year changes in moisture and growing conditions.
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Sagebrush

Sagebrush in autumn

In the fall, sagebrush flowers and goes to seed as temperatures drop and daylight hours shorten. Protein-rich seeds and evergreen sage leaves continue to feed and shield greater sage-grouse.
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a greater sage-grouse walking in dry grass late summer sun

Step by step: Sage-grouse in Season

By late summer, sagebrush rangelands have dried out after many weeks without significant rainfall, and broods of sage-grouse are venturing farther afield.
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a pinyon jay atop a pinyon pine tree

Two of a kind: Sage-grouse & Pinyon jay habitats

As the BLM and partners work to reverse decline in greater sage-grouse populations, we also recognize that successful conservation requires thinking about how actions to protect one species may in turn affect others.
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Historically, the Gunnison sage-grouse has had a presence near Poncha Pass at the north end of Colorado’s San Luis Valley. Recent efforts have sought to repopulate the area with the threatened species, with significant work aimed toward habitat restoration as seen here.

BLM, volunteers restore habitat for threatened species

Government agencies and volunteers hand-built stone terrain features to improve habitat conditions for the Gunnison sage-grouse, a federally listed threatened species.
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