Podcast: Sage Grouse Biology, Habitat, and How to Hunt Them

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Pheasants Forever’s On the Wing podcast talks with Tim Griffiths, Western WLFW’s regional coordinator; Ron Leathers, PF’s finance director and biologist; and Michael Brown, formerly the field coordinator for PF and the Sage Grouse Initiative about WLFW’s conservation efforts in sagebrush country, sage grouse biology, and sage grouse hunting.

Episode Title: Sage Grouse: Biology, Habitat, and How to Hunt Them

Podcast: On the Wing

Producer: Pheasants Forever and Quail Forever

WLFW Experts: Tim Griffiths, Western Working Lands for Wildlife regional coordinator with the NRCS, Ron Leathers, finance director and biologist with Pheasants Forever, and Michael Brown, former field capacity coordinator for WLFW and the Sage Grouse Initiative

Topic: Working Lands for Wildlife, voluntary conservation, Sage grouse biology, sage brush habitat, and hunting opportunities

Air Date: 6/25/2019

Listen Time: 1:37:02

Episode Description: Want to learn all about sage grouse, their habitat needs, and how and where to hunt them? Listen up!

On this episode, Bob St. Pierre leads a fascinating conversation about the USDA’s Working Lands for Wildlife program and how sage habitat conservation is improving ranchers’ lives and bird populations. In fact, the millions of acres of sage grouse habitat improved through the group’s efforts over the last decade can now be seen from space. The roundtable includes NRCS’s Western Regional Coordinator Tim Griffiths, Pheasants Forever & Quail Forever’s Director of Finance and biologist Ron Leathers, and Pheasants Forever & Quail Forever’s Sage Grouse Initiative Field Coordinator Michael Brown.

Learn More:

• Working Lands for Wildlife’s Life Cycle of a Sage Grouse storymap
• About the Sage Grouse from Working Lands for Wildlife
• Working Lands for Wildlife’s Framework for Conservation Action in the Sagebrush Biome