WildEarth Guardians

Thursday, October 14, 2004
Petition to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to List the Columbian Sharp-tailed Grouse as an Endangered or Threatened Species

Petitioners are requesting listing of the Columbian sharp-tailed grouse under theEndangered Species Act as threatened or endangered and request the designation ofcritical habitat for this species.
Contact: WildEarth Guardians

Columbian sharp-tailed grouse were once considered the most abundant gallinaceous bird in the intermountain region. They were first described by Lewis and Clark on the plains of the Columbia River, and early pioneers described flocks of thousands that “darkened the sky” when they flew. Historically, the range of the Columbian sharp-tailed grouse included steppe and shrub steppe habitats of the Great Basin, from the Rocky Mountains to the Cascades and Sierra Nevada, including southeastern British Columbia, Northwestern California, western Colorado, much of southern and western Idaho, Montana west of the Continental Divide, eastern Oregon, central Utah, eastern Washington, northern and western Nevada and south-western and south-central Wyoming.

Read the Petition (PDF)