What We Do
We work alongside other agencies, partners, non-profits, Tribes, landowners, programs, and the public to strategize, fund, and collaborate on sagebrush sagebrush
The western United States’ sagebrush country encompasses over 175 million acres of public and private lands. The sagebrush landscape provides many benefits to our rural economies and communities, and it serves as crucial habitat for a diversity of wildlife, including the iconic greater sage-grouse and over 350 other species.
Learn more about sagebrush conservation. Individual state fish and wildlife agencies have been, and continue to be, central to the implementation of work in sagebrush.
Management and Conservation
Threats to Sagebrush
Habitat loss and fragmentation is the leading threat to sagebrush sagebrush
The western United States’ sagebrush country encompasses over 175 million acres of public and private lands. The sagebrush landscape provides many benefits to our rural economies and communities, and it serves as crucial habitat for a diversity of wildlife, including the iconic greater sage-grouse and over 350 other species.
Learn more about sagebrush country and its wildlife. In particular, the invasion of exotic annual grasses and the destructive, large-scale wildfires fueled by these grasses is one of the most pressing issues we face.
Goals of the Service’s Sagebrush Ecosystem Conservation Approach
- Defend and grow high quality sagebrush habitat “cores” to strengthen climate resilience and promote land health
- Reduce the likelihood of future federal regulatory intervention for declining sagebrush-obligate wildlife species
- Sustain the region’s rural, natural resources-based economies and communities, including tribes
- Build on the current collaborative process with the Western Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies and other federal, state, and nongovernmental partners
