[Carry_Okie]

The density of sage grouse on the Deseret Ranch in Woodruff Utah is TEN TIMES what it is on the surrounding BLM land. Sage grouse need fresh vegetation to eat. They won't get that from a decadent sage monoculture.

Only a year ago, I did a vegetative transect of US 50 in Nevada. It was a repeat of one done 15 years prior. The ONLY places where there was sufficient disturbance to produce consistent grass cover and forbs with which to provide the food sage grouse need was along fence lines where ranchers drive their cattle in dense bunches. I have the photographs and logs to prove it.

[Carry_Okie]

See above.