Bringing back prairie grouse

Outdoors Prairie grouse, formerly abundant in the sage-steppe regions of Eastern Washington, are slowly improving from the brink of extirpation with the help of other states. During the grouse breeding period in April, volunteers helped deliver sharp-tailed grouse captured by biologists in Idaho to join their struggling cousins on lonely grass and sage lands in several counties. About the same time, another shift of volunteers was making the 1,100 round trip to return with greater sage grouse caught in southern Oregon.

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