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Rasters Representing Greater Sage-grouse Space Use, Habitat Selection, and Survival to Inform Habitat Management (ver. 3.0, September 2025)

We expanded on previously developed methodology to incorporate information on habitat selection and survival during reproductive life stages and specific seasons with updated sage-grouse location and known fate datasets, while also including brood-rearing areas that are understood to be threatened and important for population persistence. We combined predictive habitat map surfaces for each life stage and season with updated information on current occupancy patterns to classify habitat based on its suitability and probability of occupancy. We carried out additional steps to delineate specific example habitat management areas, specifically (1) incorporated corridors connecting key nesting and brood-rearing habitat, (2) corrected outputs for pre-wildfire habitat conditions within areas burned in the last 16 years, and (3) masked out areas of anthropogenic development. Our methodological example of deriving habitat management areas was intended to help inform decisions by BLM and other land managers regarding conservation and management of sage-grouse. Associated data products in the form of habitat maps provide updated, detailed, and comprehensive information about the status of habitats and can be useful to partner agencies in their efforts to designate and rank habitats for this species of high conservation concern in Nevada and California, with full recognition that on-the-ground field data and local sources of information and expertise should be used in conjunction with inferences from these models.

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Author(s) Peter S Coates orcid, Megan C Milligan orcid, Shawn T O'Neil orcid, Brianne E Brussee orcid, Michael P Chenaille orcid
Publication Date 2024-03-15
Beginning Date of Data 2013
Ending Date of Data 2021
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DOI https://doi.org/10.5066/P933VE6W
Citation Coates, P.S., Milligan, M.C., O'Neil, S.T., Brussee, B.E., and Chenaille, M.P., 2024, Rasters Representing Greater Sage-grouse Space Use, Habitat Selection, and Survival to Inform Habitat Management (ver. 3.0, September 2025): U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P933VE6W.
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