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Recent conservation easements in Montana help maintain the sage-grouse’s longest-known migration corridor between the U.S. and Canada.
The area between the Pioneer Mountains and Craters of the Moon National Monument in Idaho is vitally important to sage-grouse and other wildlife. SGI has worked with 26 landowners to enroll 1/3 of the private ranches in the region in conservation easements.
In Montana, landowners have partnered with local land trusts to conserve 2 million acres. Expert Lisa McCauley from NRCS explains why easements work for ranchers and wildlife.
Two new easements protect an additional 2,500 acres of prime sagebrush habitat, adding to area’s conservation legacy
“You don’t own the ranch. The ranch owns you,” says John Peavey, a third generation rancher and former state senator. He joins other voices of Idaho ranchers taking historic steps to assure a future for working lands.
Canada’s only viable population of sage grouse depends on habitats in two countries. The revelation that the birds migrate 70 to 120 miles south each winter came from USDA science advisor Dave Naugle’s radio-tracking study in Grasslands National Park (near the border).
LPCI PRESS RELEASE: Two Lesser Prairie-Chicken Initiative partners receive the Hamerstrom Award for their important contributions to prairie grouse conservation.