How to Use sage grouse in a Sentence

sage grouse

noun
  • Young sage grouse cannot digest sage until the age of three weeks or so.
    — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Take the case of the greater sage grouse, that puffy-breasted bird of the West.
    — Peter S. Alagona, Outside Online, 9 July 2018
  • Protecting the greater sage grouse could be a good starting point.
    — Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 27 June 2024
  • Wyoming is among just a handful of states with large populations of sage grouse.
    — USA TODAY, 11 July 2019
  • Other land that could be opened to drilling is important sage grouse habitat.
    — Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 10 June 2019
  • But sage grouse are deeply attached to their mating grounds and rarely relocate on their own.
    — Samantha Agate, Miami Herald, 14 Apr. 2026
  • In early spring, look for lesser sandhill cranes, trumpeter swans and sage grouse.
    — oregonlive, 21 Mar. 2021
  • Officials also will look at how climate change is adding to pressures on sage grouse.
    — Matthew Brown, ajc, 19 Nov. 2021
  • Junipers also force out sagebrush and other plants that produce bugs that sage grouse eat.
    — Washington Post, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Belabored metaphor that never adds up to much (in this case a sage grouse at risk of extinction)?
    — David Rooney, HollywoodReporter, 27 Jan. 2026
  • So, if the greater sage grouse is more important to people in the cities than cattle, why not pay the ranchers to grow sage grouse?
    — Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 9 Mar. 2016
  • That’s true for the greater sage grouse, a chicken-size bird that is found on 172 million acres in eleven western states.
    — Brian Seasholes, National Review, 26 Sep. 2017
  • The greater sage grouse, known for its elaborate mating dance, once numbered in the millions across the West.
    — Judith Kohler, The Denver Post, 10 June 2019
  • The groups also say bighorn sheep, which can acquire deadly diseases from domestic sheep, and greater sage grouse use the area.
    — From Usa Today Network and Wire Reports, USA TODAY, 8 July 2021
  • Greater sage grouse once numbered in the millions across all or portions of 11 Western states.
    — Matthew Brown, ajc, 19 Nov. 2021
  • The blaze is burning important habitat for the sage grouse, whose numbers have been in decline in recent years.
    — oregonlive, 24 Aug. 2020
  • Given their significance as a symbol of the West, sage grouse matter.
    — Phil Bourjaily, Field & Stream, 11 Jan. 2024
  • Ultimately, the goal of the lawsuit is to have Congress review and reject the sage grouse rules.
    — Kimberlee Kruesi, The Seattle Times, 3 Sep. 2018
  • Complicating matters is the presence of sage grouse habitat at the Playa Sand site.
    — Brian Maffly, The Salt Lake Tribune, 1 Sep. 2022
  • The move is considered part of the reason sage grouse didn’t receive federal protections.
    — Washington Post, 20 June 2018
  • Rural Westerners love their wide-open views, their well-paying fossil fuel jobs, their sage grouse habitat.
    — Sammy Rothstaff Writer, Los Angeles Times, 26 Aug. 2022
  • Removing the juniper not only benefits sage grouse, but also mule deer, elk, pronghorn and golden eagles.
    — Cynthia Sewell, idahostatesman, 31 May 2018
  • The group says the program puts private ranchers in charge of grazing on public lands without regard for wildlife such as sage grouse and endangered salmon.
    — Keith Ridler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Sep. 2019
  • The greater sage grouse is doing well, thanks primarily to state and private conservation efforts.
    — Brian Seasholes, National Review, 26 Sep. 2017
  • Since 2017, the agency has opened more land for oil and gas extraction and mining and scaled back protections for the greater sage grouse.
    — Jennifer Oldham, National Geographic, 3 Sep. 2019
  • More than 250 bird species migrate through or make their homes here, including bald eagles and sage grouse, plus bison restoration on adjacent lands.
    — Outside Online, 6 Mar. 2023
  • Its aim is for prairie dogs, sage grouse, coyote, bighorn sheep and other species of native plants, birds and mammals to thrive in a contiguous space the size of Connecticut.
    — The Economist, 14 Nov. 2020
  • Trump tried to limit public comment on oil and gas leasing in areas that could harm the troubled sage grouse and overturned a ban on lead tackle and bullets for hunting and fishing.
    — Craig Welch, National Geographic, 19 Oct. 2020
  • In your free time, hike amid rugged cliffs and sharp ridges, soak in hot springs and spot wildlife — namely, 3,000-plus pronghorn antelope, along with sage grouse, bighorn sheep and hundreds of other species.
    — Washington Post, 5 May 2022
  • The board approved the railway’s Whitmore Park Alternative, a route that was drawn to avoid federal sage grouse habitat and a residential area.
    — Jordan Miller, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Dec. 2021

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