The Shrinking Sagebrush Sea presents the results of WildEarth Guardians’ spatial analyses of sage-grouse current range and three important threats to the species: natural gas and oil development, livestock grazing, and the spread of cheatgrass in the West. Our analyses found that these factors, individually or cumulatively, affect more than 80 percent of sage-grouse habitat on public and private lands in the Interior West. We also found that very little of the Sagebrush Sea -- less than three percent of sage-grouse current range -- benefits from some level of federal protection.

Media Release	October 9, 2008	New Report Documents Extensive Habitat Loss, Lack of Protection for Interior West's Sagebrush Sea
Report	The Shrinking Sagebrush Sea: Spatial Analyses of Threats to the Sagebrush Sea and Greater Sage-Grouse

AP (multiple) 5 percent of sage grouse habitat protected on U.S. (10/9/08)