Wildlife Program Highlights

By removing the bottom wire of a barbed-wire fence and lowering the top wire to 38” high, pronghorn can cross under the fence safely while other wildlife can jump over more easily.

During the week of June 17, 2024, Oklahoma Field Office Wildlife Biologist Brian Dickerson and American Conservation Experience (ACE) intern Matthew Jackson traveled to the Cross Bar Management Area just north of Amarillo, Texas. It is the only surface management tract within the three-state area covered by the Oklahoma Field Office (OFO).

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.

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

Greater sage-grouse hens and their broods of growing chicks spend the long days of summer on walkabouts, continuing to rely on sagebrush and native grasses for food and shelter.