With the potential listing of the Greater Sage-grouse under the Endangered Species Act, efforts to evaluate, prioritize, and mitigate Sage-grouse habitat will be necessary. By using large samples of radio collared birds and continuous cover mapping the needs of the bird can be quantified and expressed geographically. Habitat restoration and mitigation can then be directed to places that can be changed the most for the least amount of input. Near Roundup Montana over 100 birds were collared and over 500,000 acres were mapped using continuous cover mapping techniques. Between the two datasets a highly accurate assessment of Sage-habitat value was created.
Oral presentation and poster titles, abstracts, and authors from the Society for Range Management (SRM) Annual Meetings and Tradeshows, from 2013 forward.