Saving the Sage Grouse

National Wildlife
Dec/Jan 2003

TAKE ONE LOOK at a male sage grouse performing his mating dance—his spiky tail feathers erected, yellow eye combs flashing and olive green air sacs ballooning from his chest—and you will know why Meriwether Lewis and William Clark dubbed it the "cock of the plains." But like so many other creatures chronicled in great numbers by Lewis and Clark, sage grouse populations have fallen to only a fraction of their historic records.
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