Podcast: BOSH Project Restores Sagebrush Sea at Grand Scale

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The Art of Range Podcast sits down with WLFW’s Jeremy Maestas, Pheasant Forever’s Connor White, and Life on the Range writer and producer Steve Stuebner to talk about the Bruneau Owyhee Sage Grouse Habitat or BOSH Project.

Episode Title: BOSH Project Restores Sagebrush Sea at Grand Scale

Podcast: The Art of Range

Producer: Washington State University Extension

WLFW Expert: Jeremy Maestas, USDA-NRCS Sagebrush Ecosystem Specialist, West Technology Support Center, USDA-NRCS Working Lands for Wildlife

Topic: The Bruneau Owyhee Sage Grouse Habitat (BOSH) Project

Air Date: 8/23/24

Listen Time: 1:08:15

The Bruneau Owyhee Sage Grouse Habitat (BOSH) project is a collaborative partnership of state and federal agencies, wildlife advocacy groups, and private landowners to restore native upland landscapes in Southwest Idaho to a more natural condition benefitting sage grouse, songbirds, antelope, spotted frogs and other wildlife. Conifer encroachment is now recognized as the second most significant threat to sage grouse populations in the Western U.S., second only to invasive grasses like cheatgrass. The partnership has mobilized money and people to control juniper on more acres than have ever been treated in contiguous pieces. In this first episode based on the Idaho Life on the Range series, project partners discuss the genesis of the project, science behind sage grouse habitat enhancement, and possible future activities.

Learn More:

• BOSH Storymap from Partners in the Sage
• Life on the Range Video about the BOSH Project
• Article from Pheasants Forever about the BOSH Project (March 2024)