Sage grouse live in California’s high deserts, ... summer of 2019, a motorist’s tire blowout started a fire miles away from the Clear Lake National Wildlife Refuge on a Modoc County highway.

LOS ANGELES (CN) - The Forest Service allows illegal livestock grazing in Modoc National Forest, though its own studies show that grazing endangers the greater sage grouse, the Western Watersheds ...

Greater sage grouse are known for their plumage and intricate mating dances. During those dances, the males make popping sounds with inflated air sacs. The bird calls two different parts of the state ...

There are two separate units of greater sage grouse in the state: a northern California population in Lassen and Modoc counties and the bi-state sage-grouse population, which is found east of the ...

Although fences are not found on the refuge, on the adjacent Modoc National Forest, which is part of the sage grouse habitat, fences constructed for livestock production, are a significant threat ...