In this document, we present information on the recent addition of the Gunnison sage grouse (Centrocercus minimus) found in Colorado and Utah to the list of candidates for listing under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended. Identification of candidate taxa can assist environmental planning efforts by providing advance notice of potential listings, allowing resource managers to alleviate threats and, thereby, possibly remove the need to list taxa as endangered or threatened. Even if we subsequently list this candidate species, the early notice provided here could result in fewer restrictions on activities by prompting candidate conservation measures to alleviate threats to this species. We also announce the availability of the candidate and listing priority assignment form for this candidate species. This document describes the status and threats that we evaluated to determine that Gunnison sage grouse warrants consideration for listing, and to assign a listing priority to this species. We request additional status information that may be available for the Gunnison sage grouse. We will consider this information in evaluating, monitoring, and developing conservation strategies for this species.
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Auk (American Ornithologists' Union list of bird species) (2000)
Sage grouse response to pinyon-juniper management (1999) — Commons, M.L., R.K. Baydack, and C.E. Braun
Molecular analysis of genetic variation among large- and small-bodied sage grouse using mitochondrial control-region sequences (1999) — Kahn, N.W., C.E. Braun, J.R. Young, S. Wood, D.R. Mata, and T.W. Quinn
Probing the evolutionary history of sage grouse Centrocercus urophasianus populations using mitochondrial DNA sequence (1997) — Quinn, T.W., N.W. Kahn, J.R. Young, N.G. Benedict, S. Wood, D. Mata, and C.E. Braun
A new species of sage grouse from Colorado (1995) — Braun, C.E., and J.R. Young
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Distribution and status of sage grouse in Colorado (1995) — Braun, C.E.
Phenotypic divergence of secondary sexual traits among sage grouse, Centrocercus urophasianus, populations (1994) — Young, J.R., J.W. Hupp, J.W. Bradbury, and C.E. Braun
Geographic variation among sage grouse in Colorado (1991) — Hupp, J.W., and C.E. Braun
Topographic distribution of sage grouse foraging in winter (1989) — Hupp, J.W., and C.E. Braun
Late summer-spring movements of juvenile sage grouse (1986) — Dunn, P.O., and C.E. Braun
Summer movements and habitat use by sage grouse broods in central Montana (1971)
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