Sorry, but the sage grouse did just fine for hundreds of thousands of years before humans were here in North America to “control fires”. Periodic prairie fires are part and parcel of the NATURAL habitat and natural cycles. Unnatural controlling of those natural fires interferes with the good they do for the environment and have ALWAYS done for the environment.
Well the range wasn’t mismanaged by the Feds then; which leads to runaway fires. Your assumption is based upon faulty information.