Details for Inventory of Sage Grouse Conservation Measures - 2012

The greater sage-grouse, a bird species listed as “warranted but precluded” on the Federal Endangered Species List, is found throughout the interior West.  Eleven of the Western Governors’ Association’s (WGA) 19 member states provide habitat to the sage-grouse – habitat that often intersects with lands ideal for energy development and rangeland agriculture. If the sage-grouse is fully listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA), the economic impacts to states and communities that have sage-grouse habitat could be severe.