“The lovely Mount Pinos sooty grouse could easily go extinct without immediate federal protection,” said Brian Segee of the Center for Biological Diversity. Environmentalists today petitioned the Fish ...

YAKIMA, Wash. - Its name is a bit deceiving, though no more so than its previous moniker. Its "song" is less musical than it is percussive. And you'd have to travel miles from the sweltering August ...

OJAI, Calif.— The Center for Biological Diversity submitted a petition to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today seeking Endangered Species Act protection for California’s Mount Pinos sooty grouse.

In 2006, the American Ornithologists’ Union split the species known as the blue grouse into two species -- dusky and sooty grouse. Washington is the only state where the ranges of these two very ...

In the early 1800s, as the expedition led by Lewis and Clark and guided by Sacagawea pushed through the Rocky Mountains, they found and described dusky grouse, Dendragapus obscurus. In the Cascade ...