Don’t get me wrong... I love birds. I like watching them, I even put out bird seed for them. However I also love eating them, at least those that have enough meat on their scrawny little bones to make their cooking worthwhile.
Chicken farmers could breed millions of sage grouse if the bird was really endangered.
The issue is not the sage grouse , rather they hate self sufficient / middle class farmers, ranchers, commercial fishermen, loggers ... and energy producers.