Fight To Save The Sage Grouse Finds Friends In All Corners Of The West

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http://www.npr.org/2015/09/01/435491783/fight-to-save-the-sage-grouse-finds-friends-in-all-corners-of-the-west

"The greater sage grouse is a peculiar and distinctly Western bird. It's about the size of a chicken and about as adaptable as the dodo bird, which is to say it's not very adaptable at all — at least not in a human-driven time scale.

In biological terms, the greater sage grouse is perfectly adapted for its habitat: the rolling hills of knee-high silver scrub that's sometimes called the sagebrush sea. It's the oft-forgotten parts of the fast-changing West — The Big Empty, as settlers used to call it.

Today, though, it's better known for its other uses: big energy, big mining and big agriculture, which has caused a big problem for the bird.

There are about 400,000 greater sage grouse left on the landscape, spread across 11 Western states, from California to North Dakota. That's a fraction of what their numbers were just a century ago, when homesteaders described them as blackening out the skies.

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They are such magnificent animals. Indeed, they must be saved.

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1. Kick.

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2. Oh, goodness. I can only imagine what the post I can't see says.