Download or read book Colorado Greater Sage grouse Conservation Plan written by and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Northwest Colorado Greater Sage grouse written by and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Northwest Colorado Greater Sage grouse written by and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 71 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Northwest Colorado planning area is part of the larger Rocky Mountain Region and encompasses approximately 15 million acres, including 8.5 million acres of public lands managed by five BLM field offices in the 10 northwest Colorado counties of Eagle, Garfield, Grand, Jackson, Larimer, Mesa, Moffat, Rio Blanco, Routt, and Summit. The planning area encompasses National Park Service, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Forest Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, State of Colorado, county, city, and private lands. Decisions in this Approved RMPA apply solely to BLM-administered surface (totaling approximately 1.7 million acres) and BLM-administered Federal mineral estate (approximately 2.1 million acres) within Greater Sage-Grouse habitat"--Page 1-3.

Download or read book Greater Sage Grouse written by Steve Knick and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2011-05-19 with total page 665 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Admired for its elaborate breeding displays and treasured as a game bird, the Greater Sage-Grouse is a charismatic symbol of the broad open spaces in western North America. Unfortunately these birds have declined across much of their range—which stretches across 11 western states and reaches into Canada—mostly due to loss of critical sagebrush habitat. Today the Greater Sage-Grouse is at the center of a complex conservation challenge. This multifaceted volume, an important foundation for developing conservation strategies and actions, provides a comprehensive synthesis of scientific information on the biology and ecology of the Greater Sage-Grouse. Bringing together the experience of thirty-eight researchers, it describes the bird’s population trends, its sagebrush habitat, and potential limitations to conservation, including the effects of rangeland fire, climate change, invasive plants, disease, and land uses such as energy development, grazing, and agriculture.

Download or read book Northwest Colorado Greater Sage grouse Proposed Land Use Plan Amendment and Final Environmental Impact Statement written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Northwest Colorado Greater Sage grouse written by United States. Bureau of Land Management and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Northwest Colorado Greater Sage grouse written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this [resource management plan] RMP amendment (RMPA) is to enhance cooperation with the States by modifying the approach to Greater Sage-Grouse management in existing RMPs to better align with individual state plans and/or conservation measures and [U.S. Department of the Interior] DOI and [Bureau of Land Management] BLM policy. This document considers amendments to five BLM RMPs in Colorado. The [environmental impact statement] EIS describes and analyzes two alternatives as well as the Proposed Plan Amendment for managing Greater Sage-Grouse habitat on approximately 1.7 million acres of BLM-administered surface estate and 2.1 million acres of BLM subsurface federal mineral estate ... Major planning issues addressed include allocation decisions for fluid minerals, flexibility in allowing exceptions or modifications to lease stipulations, clarification of processes for habitat boundary designations, and clarification on the strategy for compensatory mitigation.

Download or read book Northwest Colorado Greater Sage grouse Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Northwest Colorado Greater Sage grouse written by and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Northwest Colorado Greater Sage grouse Approved Resource Management Plan Amendment written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The purpose of the approved resource management plan amendment (ARMPA) is to identify and incorporate appropriate measures in existing land use plans (LUPs) to conserve, enhance, and restore greater sage-grouse (GRSG) habitat by avoiding, minimizing, or compensating for unavoidable impacts on GRSG habitat in the context of the BLM’s multiple use and sustained yield mission under FLPMA. Changes in management of GRSG habitats are necessary to avoid the continued decline of populations across the species’ range. This ARMPA focuses on areas affected by threats to GRSG habitat identified by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) in the March 2010 listing decision and in the USFWS 2013 COT report"--Page 1-7.

Download or read book Northwest Colorado Greater Sage grouse Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement written by and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Habitat Requirements and Management Recommendations for Sage Grouse written by Mayo W. Call and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Wildlife Habitats in Managed Rangelands the Great Basin of Southeastern Oregon written by Mayo W. Call and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Dispersal Ecology of Greater Sage grouse in Northwestern Colorado written by Thomas R. Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last 30 years declines in greater sage-grouse populations have occurred across much of their range. Breeding populations had declined by an estimated 17-47% since the mid 1970s, a trend that has paralleled significant changes in the sagebrush habitats essential for the species. The primary factors affecting this change in sagebrush habitats differ by region and state but include changes in fire regime, conversion to cropland and seeded grasslands, wild and domestic ungulates, removal of sagebrush to increase livestock production (mechanical and herbicide methods), range conversion by invasive exotic plant species like cheatgrass, and general anthropocentric encroachment (e.g. excessive hunting, roads, and mineral exploration and extraction). The result of these changes has been a progressive range-wide loss, fragmentation, and degradation of sagebrush habitats.

Download or read book Dispersal Ecology of Greater Sage grouse in Northwestern Colorado written by Thomas R. Thompson and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 756 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greater sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus ; here after sage-grouse) has undergone dramatic population declines over the last 25 years as a result of loss, fragmentation, and degradation of sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata spp.) habitats on which it depends. Because of these declines and the subsequent loss of habitat, knowledge concerning the juvenile ecology of sage-grouse, including natal dispersal patterns and abilities and its influences on population persistence, colonization, and connectivity are critical for the conservation planning and management of this species. The focus of this dissertation was two-fold: first, to assess the feasibility of actively collecting and hatching sage-grouse eggs from wild radiomarked sage-grouse and rearing subsequent domestically-hatched (DH) chicks from 1-10 days of age before augmenting wild sage-grouse broods (Chapter 2), and second to investigate natal dispersal in greater sage-grouse through both demographic (radio telemetry) and genetic methods. In Chapter 3, I monitored survival and causes of mortality in wild-hatched chicks ( n = 431) in wild broods (n = 115) from hatch to 16 weeks of age in the Axial Basin and Cold Springs Mountain study areas in northwestern Colorado, 2005-2007 and evaluated potentially important predictors of brood and chick survival. In addition, I monitored survival from hatch to 16 weeks of age for a cohort of DH chicks raised to 1-10 days of age in captivity ( n = 116) and introduced into a subset of wild broods during this same time period. Model averaged estimates of brood and chick survival indicated that survival varied both temporally and spatially. In Chapter 4, I captured radiomarked, and monitored survival and recruitment of 183 transmitter-equipped juveniles (from Chapter 3) from 1 September - 31 March. Survival from September through March was similar for all juveniles, but varied by month, study area, and gender. Median dispersal distance was greater for juvenile males compared to females (M: 3.84 ± 1.26 km; F: 2.68 + 0.30 km), as well as the proportion dispersing > 5 km (M: 31.6%; F: 15.5%). In Chapter 5, I examined the patterns of dispersal, gene flow, and genetic structure at 15 leks in 6 population management zones (PMZs). Genetic analyses were largely congruent and suggested that gene flow followed an isolation-by-distance pattern, and supported male-biased dispersal findings based on demographic data (Chapter 4). Finally, in Chapter 6 I investigated how coarse-grained landscape characteristics influences dispersal and settlement patterns. Landscape metrics primarily differed between study areas rather than genders, and among pre-dispersal, winter, and post-dispersal landscapes. Effect of extent upon analyses depended upon the specific metric and landscape.

Download or read book Sage Grouse Habitat Use and Seasonal Movements in a Naturally Fragmented Landscape Northwestern Colorado written by Christian A. Hagen and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Grassland Grouse and Their Conservation written by Paul A. Johnsgard and published by Smithsonian Institution. This book was released on 2014-12-03 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Johnsgard, one of the world's leading ornithologists, has written this book as a call to action. Conservationists have seen a marked decline in the populations of North American grouse, particularly the grassland-adapted species. Unless action is taken swiftly, at least one species -- Attwater's prairie-chicken -- is certain to follow the heath hen into extinction. Johnsgard begins with the tragic history of the heath hen, which became extinct in 1932. He devotes a chapter each to the greater and lesser prairie-chickens, greater and Gunnison sage-grouse, and sharp-tailed grouse. Johnsgard argues that habitat loss and excessive hunting are major factors contributing to the decline of each species, particularly the lesser prairie-chicken and the Gunnison sage-grouse, which have been proposed for threatened federal status. This narrative history is troubling but not without hope. Johnsgard discusses places where populations exist that have yet to be preserved, and outlines the steps necessary to conserve these species. A possible future does exist for grassland grouse, and Johnsgard's book points the way toward securing it.