Brett French Lee Newspapers Dec 23, 2024 Dec 23, 2024 With land prices soaring in Montana, groups that assist landowners with conservation easements to protect sage grouse habitat from being developed ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. A $1.2 million conservation easement to protect sage grouse habitat on 4,417 acres of the ...

Bob Barbo is known as a duck hunter. His family cars have never seen the inside of the ga­rage. It is reserved for two duck boats and vast piles of decoys. His dog is a Chesapeake and he shoots a ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks officials are asking grouse hunters to drop off wing samples to better understand populations across west-central Montana. Samples can be dropped in ...

Montana will send 40 sage grouse hens to Alberta this year in an effort to boost cross-border populations of the game bird. “The Alberta sage grouse population has been suffering for a number of years ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks officials are asking grouse hunters to drop off wing samples to better understand populations across west-central Montana. Samples can be dropped in ...

HELENA — Montana officials are set to decide Thursday whether to relocate dozens of sage grouse to the Canadian province of Alberta, a plan opposed by some lawmakers who say the state should look to ...

It's not often that we get good news about endangered species. But the unprecedented effort that took place last year in Montana and across the West to conserve the sage grouse stands out as a great ...

Editor's note: This story is part of 'ESA at 50,' a series that examines the past, present and future of the Endangered Species Act. Often called the "pit bull of environmental laws," the ESA has ...

Sage grouse have begun to strut on their spring dancing grounds on the Montana prairies. For Bernie Hildebrand, that means it’s time to take to the air and prowl the backroads before dawn to check on ...