Article: GROUSE POPULARITY RISING.(Sports)

Article: BLUE GROUSE APPEAL MAY BE GROWING.(Sports)(Column)
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  July 31, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... stream of combined blue grouse / sage grouse hunters appears ... drip. Declining sage grouse populations because ... days. Because blue grouse occupy often daunting ... locked into this sage grouse hunt. So you get blue grouse.'' I fondly ...

Article: GREATER SAGE GROUSE TEST POSITIVE FOR WEST NILE ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  September 6, 2006 ;     700+ words ... ... recent years in greater sage grouse populations in Montana ... grouse (also known as blue grouse) season is currently ... a limited greater sage grouse season begins Saturday ... Hunters who find greater sage grouse, blue grouse or raptor carcasses ...

Article: Love on the Lek.(mating of the sage grouse)
Sports Afield;  March 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... and the specter of the sage grouse being listed under the ... where I live, however, sage grouse populations are generally ... along with the occasional blue grouse in the mountains hereabout ... during the very short sage grouse season in September ...

Article: SAGE GROUSE NUMBERS IN NORTH PARK ...
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO);  July 27, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... sagebrush strongholds. Sage grouse counts this spring were ... in Moffat County, the sage grouse population is up slightly ... found higher numbers of sage grouse and Columbian sharp ... Sharp-tailed grouse and blue grouse mingle on some state ...

Article: Sage grouse debate enflamed by court ruling, E&P ...
Natural Gas Week;  February 4, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Weighing between two and seven pounds, the sage grouse is a timid bird with unusual feathers ... prove the legal controversy behind sage grouse protection is hardly as quiet or meek ... Wildlife Service (FWS) to reconsider sage grouse for possible protection as an endangered ...

Article: Sage grouse protection becoming BLM priority; ...
Natural Gas Week;  September 3, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Taking a stand to make protection of sage grouse a primary concern, the Bureau of Land ... officials and conservationists to get the sage grouse protected under the Endangered Species ... more than 73,000 acres because of sage grouse concerns (NGW Aug.13,p1). And ...

Article: Sage grouse habitat is in big trouble
Deseret News (Salt Lake City);  September 2, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... Western United States -- Utah included. Sage grouse are in trouble. OK, and so? Well, if sage grouse are in trouble, it means other animals ... distressed -- mule deer, included. Sage grouse are big chickenlike birds with a pointed ...