Nevada Department of Wildlife Biologist Shawn Espinosa holding a baby sage grouse in the Montana Mountains north of Winnemucca in May 2004. As the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service gets ready to re-examine whether the greater sage grouse deserves federal protection, Espinosa and other state wildlife biologists across the West are frantically looking for the bird and the traditional mating grounds known as leks where they have lived for centuries.

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Protection reconsidered for West's sage grouse

• By ncs-import
• April 27, 2008