Maybe...but wolf populations are not where grouse are/were. I used to love hunting them as a kid. But Nat gas has really hurt them...they simply aren’t there in numbers they once were...
Eh? You were hunting Sage Grouse, or, wolves?
I'll assume you meant Sage Grouse. :-)
It is true that Sage Grouse pops. are down, and even extirpated in some areas.
OTOH, the FWS found in 2015:
"A status review conducted by the Service has found that the greater sage-grouse remains relatively abundant and well-distributed across the species’ 173-million acre range and does not face the risk of extinction now or in the foreseeable future.
The Service’s decision follows an unprecedented conservation partnership across the western United States that has significantly reduced threats to the greater sage-grouse across 90% of the species’ breeding habitat. The Service has determined that protection for the greater sage-grouse under the Endangered Species Act is no longer warranted and is withdrawing the species from the candidate species list.[58]"
https://www.fws.gov/greatersagegrouse/
Now, all that said, in my neck of the woods, some of the best habitat around, for various wildlife, is on restored strip mine lands. Would not land where nat. gas is extracted simply be subject to the same sort of restoration, or even optimization? It seems that this could be even better for the bird, than simply withdrawing the land from extraction of underground resources.