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No Grousing Around Northwest Colorado: last sustainable stand for iconic birds
posted: by: Jennie Lay
Early spring’s sun has yet to rise over the vast open range north of Craig. The intoxicating smell of sage is heady, even with a giant wool scarf wound around my head and a puffy down jacket eeking over the tip of my nose. Using pre-dawn stealth, my compadres and I slink toward a white trailer on the edge of the snowy sagebrush.
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Early spring’s sun has yet to rise over the vast open range north of Craig. The intoxicating smell of sage is heady, even with a giant wool scarf wound around my head and a puffy down jacket eeking over the tip of my nose. Using pre-dawn stealth, my compadres and I slink toward a white trailer on the edge of the snowy sagebrush.
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Find solutions, cut the rhetoric, save the sage grouse
posted: 21 Mar 2012by:
It’s a love dance, the traditional and elaborate courtship ritual of the greater sage grouse. And it’s one of nature’s greatest shows; an ancient ecological pageant. Males puff up their white-feathered chests and their air sacks make a sound like “kerplunk;” their spiky tail feathers fan and shake. Like boxers, the males bob and weave over the lek – all for the attention and affection of the dun-colored hens that watch. According to the Audubon Society, just 150,000 greater sage grouse are left in the West.
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It’s a love dance, the traditional and elaborate courtship ritual of the greater sage grouse. And it’s one of nature’s greatest shows; an ancient ecological pageant. Males puff up their white-feathered chests and their air sacks make a sound like “kerplunk;” their spiky tail feathers fan and shake. Like boxers, the males bob and weave over the lek – all for the attention and affection of the dun-colored hens that watch. According to the Audubon Society, just 150,000 greater sage grouse are left in the West.
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