Thirty-one parcels in Wyoming containing 57,800 acres of prime sage-grouse habitat are among those being auctioned online by the federal Bureau of Land Management. “I can tell you with certainty that the Wyoming parcels auctioned this week were the most important habitat of all,” he said. yet contain the most important sage grouse habitat in the state,” they wrote in a letter last week. Gordon noted that he and his wife were among the first Wyoming ranchers to sign conservation agreements restricting the disturbance of grouse habitat. Today there are fewer than 500,000 sage grouse in this country, and five states in their historic range no longer have any.

Source: Washington Post March 02, 2019 00:06 UTC