besides habitat loss... what kinds of things are having the biggest negative impact on them? predators? Coyotes and hawks?
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Habitat is one of the two factors. They need sage brush as it's about 70% of their diet and they use it for escape cover. One other major factor is predation but not because we have more predators. Great horned owls love sage grouse as well as raptors. However, they need tall structures to locate prey. Telephone poles and other tall objects put up in their habitat helps predators be more successful in taking sage grouse.
As far as where they are, this lek is on private ground. Most of Douglas County have them as well as the YTC.
Thanks!
