Great Basin Naturalist
Abstract
Radio telemetry was used to study habitat use of breeding male sage grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) at a lek in northeastern Utah during 1983 and 1984. Objectives were to determine if grouse day-use areas differed significantly in sagebrush characteristics from adjacent nonuse areas and to establish a simplified method for use by land managers in identifying grouse use areas. We determined that male grouse used areas of greatest sagebrush height and cover. Our methods provide a means for land managers to identify habitat associated with a lek that is suitable for male sage grouse day use in the event sagebrush alteration is planned within 3 km of a lek.
Recommended Citation
Ellis, Kevin L.; Parrish, Jimmie R.; Murphy, Joseph R.; and Richins, Gary H.
(1989)
"Habitat use by breeding male sage grouse: a management approach,"
Great Basin Naturalist: Vol. 49:
No.
3, Article 10.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/gbn/vol49/iss3/10