Landowners work together for Sage Grouse habitat

A program for conserving sage grouse habitat initiated in 2010 by the Natural Resource Conservation Service (NRCS) was presented to local landowners at a multifaceted meeting on Sept. 10 at the Platte Valley Community Center.

The program widely known as the Sage Grouse Initiative (SGI) is now called Working Land For Wildlife - Sage Grouse (WLFW). Garrett Pantle, a wildlife biologist who works on the sage grouse initiative for the NRCS, Rocky Mountain Bird Observatory (RMBO) and the Saratoga Encampment Rawlins Conservation District (SERCD) and Mark Shirley, District Conservationist for the NRCS...