sage grouse

As we head for September, the outlook in Southern Idaho is moderate risk.

Now the left is taking square aim at the beef industry.

Hunters and other interested individuals may let their voice be heard about new sage grouse hunting season proposals.

Idaho and Utah filed documents in U.S. District Court late last week seeking to defend a plan put forward by President Donald Trump in mid-March.

Four conservation groups have asked a judge to block a Trump administration plan allowing drilling, mining and other activities in seven Western states they say will harm sage grouse.

The Trump administration is finalizing plans to ease restrictions on oil and natural gas drilling and other industrial activities that were imposed to protect an imperiled bird species that ranges across the American West.

This follows the BLM allowing high grass to grow in Nevada, which then burned.

The new plans cover 8,000 square miles (21,000 square kilometers) of greater sage grouse habitat in Idaho, Colorado, Nevada, Wyoming and Utah.

The Bureau of Land Management will host a series of public meetings beginning this week on recent changes to the great sage-grouse plans.

U.S. scientists and land managers who've been crafting strategies to protect a ground-dwelling bird across the American West for nearly two decades are going back to the drawing board.

Two Western governors are warning the Trump administration against making big changes in a plan to protect a ground-dwelling bird across the West, saying it would send a message to states not to bother working together to save other imperiled species.

After federal officials revealed new plans to protect sage grouse in the west, southern Idaho land managers will be seeking comment from the public in November.

Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter says the state has to be vigilant monitoring the federal government's creation of a new sage grouse conservation plan because of federal employees who worked on the previous plan that caused Otter to file a lawsuit.

TWIN FALLS, Idaho (KLIX) Game officials say the sage grouse opener this last weekend was a little behind from previous hunts. Idaho Department of Fish and Game announced the numbers of sage grouse brought in during the first weekend in the Shoshone Basin came in lower than last year...

JEROME, Idaho (KLIX) – If you’re a hunter, you might be interested in commenting on this proposal about sage grouse from the Idaho Department of Fish and Game. The deadline to comment is Aug. 10.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Federal officials have released a cattle grazing plan for central Idaho's Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve that immediately came under fire from an environmental group.

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Idaho Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter is appealing the dismissal of his sage grouse lawsuit against the federal government.

Idaho Fish & Game can’t operate in a vacuum.

TWIN FALLS, Idaho (KLIX) Seasonal road closures on public land are about to begin and last to spring.

DENVER (AP) — A Republican lawmaker is assailing a list of proposals for limiting Western mining to protect the vulnerable sage grouse, while an environmental group says  it's a chance for the new administration to help with conservation.