Fed's plan on Sage Grouse Protection

[YoUDeeMan]

A few years back I was traveling down a semi-remote winding, dirt road in the Columbia Basin on my way to a favorite fishing spot and came across a sage grouse hen. She was on the side of the road but instead of running or flying as we slowed down and approached, she held her ground.

The grouse then walked slowly to the middle of the road in front of my truck, stopped and looked back toward the grasses she had come from. Slowly, out popped a half dozen chicks. The mother stood her ground in front of my Tundra until the last chick had crossed and disappeared back into the roadside brush before she scurried across to join them.

I'd provide a link to her first person feelings on the matter, but it's difficult to type with these:

Did she tear off your bumper?

That's what a real animal would do.

[travelinman67]

A light white or soft pinot noir or rhone. Use thyme, not sage or rosemary.

No sage in the Sage Grouse?

Think rattlesnake.

[CID1990]

It's like Do Do Birds...

We have something similar to those out here in the East. We call them Doo Doo Birds, aka seagulls. They tend to **** on people who feed them.

not if you feed them alka seltzer

[YoUDeeMan]

Bummer.


"Over the years, there has been a persistent and rather macabre urban myth circulating that gulls will explode if they’re fed Alka-Seltzer. Sadly, we’re here to inform you that this isn’t true."

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[Wedgebuster]

Thinking about selling my Tundra now.........

BTW if that would have happened to me there would have been blood and feathers all over the road. I absolutely will not stop for ANY animal in the road. #circleoflife

Are you fucking kidding me?

You wouldn't have shot it?

Grouse is delicious you idiot.

No game bird is less edible than a mature Sage Grouse, believe me. If you can harvest a young of the year at about half the size as a bomber (what we call mature Sage Grouse in Wyoming) they are pretty good but not as good as other grouse in the area, sharptails, blues, ruffed....

Even the very nastiest mud duck could not be as "fowl" smelling, nor near as tough as a bomber.

Spoken from experience, several times over..

[kalm]

Are you fucking kidding me?

You wouldn't have shot it?

Grouse is delicious you idiot.

No game bird is less edible than a mature Sage Grouse, believe me. If you can harvest a young of the year at about half the size as a bomber (what we call mature Sage Grouse in Wyoming) they are pretty good but not as good as other grouse in the area, sharptails, blues, ruffed....

Even the very nastiest mud duck could not be as "fowl" smelling, nor near as tough as a bomber.

Spoken from experience, several times over..

Full disclosure: I've only had ruffed.