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Wyoming wildlife officials have set aside money to send helicopters to search for a sage grouse flock that’s suspected to dwell somewhere up the Gros Ventre River basin. A year ago, there was a credible report of 18 sage grouse seen flying in the Cottonwood Creek area. If they’re found again and verified, the flock would be a difference-maker for the Gros Ventre’s grouse, which were last officially surveyed with just two males remaining. The tanking official grouse tally was grounds for a proposal to augment the population by bringing in birds from the Green River basin. Transm...

The Wyoming Game and Fish Department has again turned down local biologists’ proposal to add birds to a tiny, isolated sage grouse population that dwells up the Gros Ventre River basin in order to avert its total collapse. The idea of augmenting the Gros Ventre’s resident grouse, last censused with just two male birds remaining, was born from a local working group that helps oversee Jackson Hole’s sage grouse. Plans to add adult hens with their broods were in motion ahead of summer 2020, but the statewide Sage Grouse Implementation Team’s adaptive management working group ...