Teton Raptor Center Research Director Bryan Bedrosian and Grand Teton National Park Wildlife Biologist John Stephenson surveyed the sagebrush-covered flats near the Gros Ventre River for sage grouse last month.
A sage grouse looks for food and cover in a well-picked shrub last month in Grand Teton National Park. A spring survey of breeding grounds will help managers decide whether more sage grouse need to be imported to save a struggling population in the valley.
Teton Raptor Center Research Director Bryan Bedrosian and Grand Teton National Park Wildlife Biologist John Stephenson surveyed the sagebrush-covered flats near the Gros Ventre River for sage grouse last month.
A sage grouse looks for food and cover in a well-picked shrub last month in Grand Teton National Park. A spring survey of breeding grounds will help managers decide whether more sage grouse need to be imported to save a struggling population in the valley.
Seventy-five male sage grouse putting on a show for their hen friends and strutting on local leks this spring may be enough to negate the need to import outside birds this year, biologists agreed last week.
A “technical team” assembled by the state set that loose threshold while weighing how to move forward with the smallest Jackson Hole sage grouse population in history. While drawing up recommendations the team of scientists and managers established three categories — less than 50 grouse, 50 to 75 and more than 75 — and a recommendation for how to respond in April and May according to which category the counts fall into.
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