New Fire Strategies for Protecting Sage-Grouse Habitat
Channel: BLMCALIFORNIA BLMCALIFORNIA
Date: 2015-08-27

The need to protect habitat for Greater sage-grouse played a key role in firefighting tactics during this summer’s Dodge Fire in remote and rugged Lassen County, California.  

Less than a tenth of the nearly 11,000-acre blaze burned priority sage-grouse habitat.  Important islands of habitat remained intact thanks to this firefighting approach designed with sage-grouse in mind.